Expansion of the Whitney Museum in NY by Renzo Piano

After more than a year of efforts to push through Piano's proposal for the expansion of the Whitney Museum in the heart of Manhattan, the institution's management, after considering all the pros and cons, decided that the new spaces in the project by Italian architect Renzo Piano would not be sufficient for the money spent (they wanted a third more area) and therefore chose to find a location in one of the other buildings downtown. This is an interesting turn after Whitney has been trying to expand Breuer's museum from 1966 for over twenty years. Piano is not the first architect whose project for the expansion of the Whitney Museum has failed. In 1985, a similar thing happened to Michael Graves and three years ago to Rem Koolhaas. Info>