Herzog & de Meuron has gifted New York's Museum of Modern Art a selection of its models, drawings and other materials that document 24 years of projects by the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architecture firm.
The firm chose a wide-range of materials to present the design process for each project, like this digital model of the Elbphilharmonie's technical building services
MoMA intends to exhibit the new assets once its Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed renovation completes next year. They will be displayed alongside materials from four older projects by the firm, created between 1988 to 1997, and a 2002 "design object" already in the museum's collection.
A series of "architectural fragments", like this facade panel from the Eberswalde Technical School Library, also feature Established in Basel in 1978, the Swiss firm has received many major architectural awards, including the Pritzker Prize in 2001 and the Stirling Prize for London's Laban Dance Centre in 2008.

The firm's portfolio includes high-profile cultural, residential and public buildings ? many of which feature in MoMA's gift ? such as the transformation of an old power station into the CaixaForum art gallery in Madrid, the Jenga-like 56 Leonard skyscraper in New York, and the 226 National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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