Werner Otto Hall provided a new permanent home for the Bush Reisinger collection of 20th century Germanic art as well as an extensive expansion and renovation of the Fine Arts Library. The facility was added as a new wing to the Fogg Art Museum. The brief required the new wing to have its own identifiable modern character, while nonetheless respecting its connection to the Georgian style Fogg museum and its adjacency to the Carpenter Center, Le Corbusier’s modern masterpiece.

The facility accommodates permanent and temporary gallery space, collection storage, and archive study space for the museum, as well as a new exterior entrance, new reading room and expanded collection space for the library. The building was built atop underground library space, which stayed in operation throughout the construction process.

¹Associate-in-charge with Gwathmey Siegel & Associates

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