{"id":10046,"date":"2026-06-23T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:17:27","slug":"ramsa-completes-sensitive-extension-of-new-york-historical-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/ramsa-completes-sensitive-extension-of-new-york-historical-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"RAMSA completes sensitive extension of New York Historical museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Architecture studio Robert AM Stern Architects<\/a> has completed an extension to the New York Historical museum in New York informed by the building’s original design from the early 1900s.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Tang Wing for American Democracy (The Tang Wing) contains new galleries and exhibition spaces, and is affixed to the back of the main New York Historical building along W 76th Street in the Upper West Side<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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RAMSA has completed an extension to the New York Historical museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is the first expansion to the museum in 75 years, building upon a core designed by York & Sawyer and constructed in the early 1900s and an expansion in 1938 by Walker & Gillette, which added two end pavilions.<\/p>\n

The Tang Wing connects to the main building via interior passageways, and opens up into the main triple-height Klingenstein Family Gallery, while smaller exhibition spaces, outdoor areas, and a basement-level conservation studio designed by Sam Anderson Architects<\/a> surround this central space.<\/p>\n

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The interior is centered around a triple-height exhibition and event space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Its facade is largely neoclassical, and clad in the same granite<\/a> from a quarry in Deer Isle, Maine that supplied the original structure nearly 120 years ago, while the bronze<\/a> windows and a copper<\/a> cornice also mirror the existing museum building.<\/p>\n

RAMSA<\/a> partner Graham S Wyatt told Dezeen that these choices were informed by the original drawings by York & Sawyer and Walker & Gillette.<\/p>\n

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The expansion connects to the main building via the Stuart and Jane Weitzman Shoe Museum, which doubles as a passageway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wyatt explained that, based on the team’s research, Walker & Gillette designed “a very sympathetic” expansion to the core building, and RAMSA decided to follow suit in their approach.<\/p>\n

“We did a proportional analysis of York & Sawyer, which, interestingly, Walker & Gillette had clearly done, because when we analysed their buildings side by side, there’s a consistent set of proportions that both firms used,” said Wyatt.<\/p>\n