The latest in Scala's acclaimed 'Art Spaces' series celebrates the New Museum's recently opened building on the Bowery in New York City, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA. Visitors first encounter the museum as a dramatic stack of seven rectangular boxes clad in a seamless, anodized expanded aluminum mesh, chosen by SANAA to emphasise the building's distinctive form with a delicate, filmy, softly shimmering skin. The uncommon, beguiling structure derives from the architects' solution to achieve a dense and ambitious program, including open, flexible gallery spaces of different heights and atmospheres. With new photography and the 'Art Spaces' series distinct design, this book will be essential for everyone interested in museum architecture as well as a great souvenir for visitors to this destination building in New York City.
