ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 4月26日 21時47分

The stunning $465 million Richard Gilder Center for Science, designed like a canyon, is destined to become a colossal attraction in New York City.

The 230,000-square-foot addition to the American Museum of Natural History is a poetic, joyful, theatrical work of public architecture and a highly sophisticated flight of sculptural fantasy. From the outside it’s a white-pink granite cliff with yawning windows shaped like the openings to caves. Past the front doors, that cliff face morphs. It becomes an atrium in the guise of a towering canyon, a city block deep. For its architects, Jeanne Gang and her team, it was clearly a gamble and a leap of faith, bucking today’s innocuous norms, almost begging for charges of starchitectural self-indulgence.

The new wing features a 5,000-square-foot insectarium and a butterfly conservatory designed by Ralph Applebaum. Five stories of storage will house some four million scientific specimens — three stories of them with open exhibits visible through tall windows into the storerooms. Gilder will also house new classrooms, laboratories and a library, along with a theater shaped like a hockey rink and nearly as large, for a state-of-the-art interactive display about the interconnectedness of all life on earth.

The Times’s architecture critic @michael_kimmelman and the photographer @pet__fish explored the museum’s new wing. Tap the link in our bio to see more from inside.

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