Following up on a story filed on our website on November 22, today The New York Times has reported that the Whitney Museum of American Art has signed on to build a satellite institution at the entrance of the High Line, the elevated park planned for Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. The deal replaces a two-story museum originally planned by the Dia Art Foundation, which abandoned the site in October, citing the search for a new director as a higher priority.
The Whitney reached a conditional agreement with New York’s Economic Development Corporation to purchase the city-owned site, and the new building is expected to measure at least 200,000 square feet—twice as large as its home, by Marcel Breuer, on the Upper East Side.
The move, which is subject to a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure public review, means an end for the Renzo Piano–designed addition intended to be placed next to the Breuer building. Piano has agreed to design the new High Line space.
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