STANDING OUT

摘要

When the Whitney Museum of American Art unveils its new downtown Manhattan home on May 1, it will mark the culmination of more than a decade's worth of work by the building's architect, Renzo Piano. Originally tapped to expand the Whitney's longtime Marcel Breuer-designed location on the Upper East Side, the Italian Pritzker Prize winner crafted an entirely new edifice after the institution opted to move to a prime plot overlooking the Hudson River at the south end of the popular High Line park. As visitors will discover, Piano's much-anticipated creation is a game changer for the museum, providing the large, adaptable interiors it had craved, with roughly twice the exhibition space of the Breuer building and more than 220,000 square feet in total. But the move also gives the Whitney a fresh identity, placing it in the fray of the city's buzziest neighborhood for 21st-century art and architecture.