The Frick Collection Floor Plan

By shaye weaver march 28 2016 11 04am.

The frick collection floor plan. Drawings and pictures from the frick s permanent collection. Let s take a look at the plans from selldorf architects and beyer blinder belle. The grand staircase at the frick collection photo by michael bodycomb the second floor rooms are set to be converted into galleries providing a home for those members of the museum s 1 200. Frick s expansion plan includes opening mansion s 2nd floor to public.

This plan gives the public access to more of the former frick residence than ever before by opening a series of rooms on the second floor as permanent exhibition galleries. These rooms were once used as the private living quarters of the frick family but were converted into administrative offices when the house was transformed into a museum in 1935. The plan respects the current scale and height of the frick s buildings which comprise the original three story house designed by carrère and hastings and the adjacent seven story high library building designed in the 1930s by john russell pope at the same time he was adapting and expanding the residence for its 1930s conversion into a museum. As the frick embarks on an extensive renovation it continues to honor its original design plan when it was the private home of henry clay frick in 1914.

Photograph by ed lederman collaborating with the met on a temporary initiative at the breuer. The met has revealed plans to give the breuer building to the frick collection during its renovation. Frick collection with fourth expansion plan crosses its fingers again a rendering of the frick collection from east 70th street in manhattan showing the plan for an expanded second level right.