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"Following a nearly decade-long building renovation and expansion, the Cleveland Museum of Art is ringing in the New Year by celebrating the opening of its West Wing. The completion of the new galleries, which house the museum's Chinese, Indian, and Southeast Asian art collections, brings to a close a $350 million, multiphase project that unifies the original 1916 Greek Revival structure by local firm Hubbell and Benes and a 1971 addition by Marcel Breuer while adding over 60,000 square feet of new gallery and education space.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe atrium.\n\nThe organizing feature of Rafael Vi\u00F1oly's design is a central 39,000-square-foot atrium, which opened last year. \"That answered the circulation problems as well as our concerns for a community space,\" says Jeffrey Strean, the museum's director of design and architecture. But the opening of the new wing is the \"last chapter in a long book,\" Strean admits. \"It's the piece that's been away the longest and the collection we're known best for. It's remarkable to see it in the new context.\"\n\nPinterestFacebookAn installation view of one of the West Wing galleries.\n\nVi\u00F1oly conceived the museum as an integrated facility, uniting disparate structures and even mimicking the striated fa\u00E7ade of Breuer's addition on the marble and granite walls of the new exteriors. \"Rethinking the museum while celebrating the original and historic buildings, showcasing its world-renowned collections and extraordinary educational and performance-based programs,\" says the architect, \"stands to advance a great national legacy.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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