Grand Plans and Huge Spending

THE cultural building boom shows few signs of slowing. Nationwide, art institutions are renovating, adding wings or starting from the ground up. Projects include relatively modest undertakings like the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s $25 million plan to increase its gallery space by moving the museum’s library and administrative offices out of the building, and ambitious ones like the new $208 million home for the Miami Art Museum on Biscayne Bay, designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.

By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: March 28, 2007

The New York Times