Construction has begun on the Met’s Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art, a project with more than $670 million committed. Frida Escobedo—the first woman to design a wing at the museum—is adding more than 70,000 square feet of gallery space, along with expanded roof gardens and terraces. Vogue’s report from the groundbreaking
The façade uses a limestone celosía, a lattice that filters daylight and changes with the weather. That is an appealing answer to an awkward brief: give contemporary art a recognizable home without turning the Fifth Avenue elevation into a competing monument. The wing is due in 2030. From Central Park, the early construction offers the first glimpse of a building designed to make the museum’s edge more permeable.