British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to reconfigure a major art museum in Minnesota, which includes a 1970s extension designed by modernist Japanese architect Kenzo Tange.
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, also known by the nickname Mia, has enlisted Chipperfield to reconfigure its campus in the Midwestern city's Whittier neighbourhood.
The overhaul is intended to make room for the museum's expanding collection of painting; photography; print, drawings and textiles; architecture and decorative arts, along with improving visitor experience and the relationship to its neighbours.

David Chipperfield Architects will redesign the interior layout of the original Beaux-Arts architectural style building ? completed by architecture firm McKim, Mead and White in 1915 ? and a pair of extensions by the late Tange and American architect Michael Graves, who died in 2015. Tange's 1974 addition comprises two wings on the east and west that nearly doubled the size of the museum when completed. It is one of two buildings the Pritzker Prize-winning architect completed in the US, along with the American Medical Association Building in Chicago.
His extensions feature white brickwork cladding and glazing, typical of his minimalist style. A later wing designed by Graves was completed in 2006 to add 34 new galleries to the museum.

Mia selected Chipperfield to tie together all these elements, which total almost 32,000 square metres, ahead of a host of international fir...