Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's major extension and renovation of postmodern architect Charles Moore's Hood Museum of Art, in New Hampshire, will involve slotting in a pale brick building and covering a central courtyard.
Currently under construction, the project will bring the institution to 16,350 square feet (1,518 square metres) ? nearly 50 per cent larger than the existing building at Dartmouth College. The overhaul encompasses new galleries to showcase an extended art collection, and expanded teaching facilities.
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects will also reconfigure the layout of the red-brick building completed by Moore in 1985, which the husband-and-wife duo in charge of the New York firm described as being in a "tangle" before work commenced.
"It's like we were given a ball of string that had a lot of knots inside," Tsien told journalists during a presentation on 26 June 2018.
Project intended to improve campus views and circulation
Moore designed the Hood Museum of Art to fit between the campus' 19th-century red-brick Wilson Hall and the modernist Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts, built by Wallace K Harrison in 1962.
Forming part of the college's campus, Moore's design curves around a central courtyard that Williams and Tsien will cover over to provide a flexible event space for meetings, dinners and performances.

A portion of the existing museum will be removed to open up views to the surroundings and offer two routes into the mu...