ABSTRACT ONLY:
The new home of New York City’s New Museum of Contemporary Art was designed as a unique and bold showcase for the museum’s avant-garde permanent collection. The resulting design—which resembles a tall stack of offset boxes—helped balance the competing interests of the museum program, the architectural aesthetic, and the engineering systems.
BIOS:
By Kevin C. Poulin, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, a senior project manager, and Sean M. O’Brien, P.E. is a senior staff engineer at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., in Boston; and Brett H. Schneider, an associate with Guy Nordenson and Associates, in New York City.