The Whitney Museum's current building at 99 Gansevoort Street was designed by Renzo Piano. The museum closed its Madison Avenue home in October 2014 and opened the new building on May 1, 2015, after needing to raise $760 million for the building and endowment. The article gives no construction start, style or materials.
The building has about 200,000 square feet (19,000 m²) over eight stories, with 50,000 square feet (4,600 m²) of exhibition space, which the text gives separately. Its column-free galleries are described as the city's largest. Four main elevators carry the only permanent artwork commissioned for the site, conceived by Richard Artschwager. A review counts four terraces, while the text describes observation decks on floors five through eight.
The earlier building at 945 Madison Avenue was designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith and built from 1963 to 1966. The museum uses timed tickets to manage crowding.
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