This year the frick will break ground on repurposing nearly 60 000 square feet.
The frick collection floor plan.
Frick collection with fourth expansion plan crosses its fingers again a rendering of the frick collection from east 70th street in manhattan showing the plan for an expanded second level right.
The grand staircase at the frick collection photo by michael bodycomb the second floor rooms are set to be converted into galleries providing a home for those members of the museum s 1 200.
These rooms were once used as the private living quarters of the frick family but were converted into administrative offices when the house was transformed into a museum in 1935.
Drawings and pictures from the frick s permanent collection.
The met has revealed plans to give the breuer building to the frick collection during its renovation.
Photograph by ed lederman collaborating with the met on a temporary initiative at the breuer.
Let s take a look at the plans from selldorf architects and beyer blinder belle.
This plan gives the public access to more of the former frick residence than ever before by opening a series of rooms on the second floor as permanent exhibition galleries.
Frick collection details plans for two year stay in former met breuer the elaborately framed old masters that have hung for nearly a century in the elegant gilded age fifth avenue mansion that houses new york s frick collection will find themselves in starker surroundings as the frick moves its trove to the brutalist structure recently vacated by the met breuer.
Frick s expansion plan includes opening mansion s 2nd floor to public.
By shaye weaver march 28 2016 11 04am.