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The Gilder Center’s Architecture Is an Expression of the Earth

In its fluid, free-form design, the American Museum of Natural History’s new addition evokes the gentle contours that come from living processes acting over deep time.

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The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation Photo: Iwan Baan

New York

Is there a museum anywhere that has not just built an addition? If not, it soon will. Ours is a museum-enlarging age. An architect can build a lucrative practice on that fact (one thinks of Renzo Piano or Annabelle Selldorf).

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