‘MoMA the Magnificent’. It's the only way to describe the recently reopened home of New York's Museum of Modern Art, designed by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi. Well, perhaps not the only way: dazzling, spectacular, stunning, or any number of other accolades would also do. The museum — all 630 000 square feet (58 527 sq metres) of it — reopened on 20 November. The queue to get in, even at the controversial entry fee of US$20, the highest museum ticket price in the city, still stretches down the block. Let's end all suspense right here: it's worth every penny/cent/dollar/pound/euro.
Six floors of vast, light-filled galleries and public spaces, including cinemas, a restaurant, cafes, a sculpture garden, and shops, exude a wonderfully spacious and open feeling, aided by enormous windows, high ceilings, and a 110-foot (33.53 metres) central atrium. Like the Tate Modern, the building is at least as intriguing as the art it showcases.
Taniguchi is well known …