A rendering of the Morgan Library & Museum's planned lighting scheme Courtesy of Tillett Lighting Design
Long overlooked since Renzo Pianos 2006 expansion moved the main entrance to Madison Avenue, the Morgan Library and Museums southern façade will become the focus of a light show under a $12.5m project to enhance the buildings exterior. The museum says that its current landscaping, essentially a simple lawn, does little to engage the public: today it unveiled plans to introduce a new garden that would draw visitors onto paths of bluestone patterned after the librarys floor. In a scheme overseen by the landscape designer Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, the Morgan plans to introduce beds of periwinkle flanking the librarys loggia and brightly hued herbaceous beds. A Roman sarcophagus, a Roman funerary stele and two Renaissance corbels drawn from the museums holdings will add to the contempRead More – Source
