耶鲁英国艺术中心翻新项目丨美国纽黑文丨Knight Architecture

Kahn brought back to new life: gorgeously renovated Yale Center for British Art due to reopen

Interior view of the Library Court at the Yale Center for British Art after Knight Architecture's 16-month renovation. (Photo: Richard Caspole, courtesy of Yale Center for British Art)

The greatest work of art at New Haven’s Yale Center for British Art is arguably the landmark building itself—and Louis Kahn’s last structure is due to reopen this month after a 16-month renovation of its public galleries and lecture hall, and an upgrade of its accessibility, security, mechanical and electrical systems. This is the third phase of a $33m conservation project that began in 2008.

"George Knight of Knight Architecture, who led the conservation work, says: “The thing that kept me up at night was [thinking] how can we preserve the building, which is so architecturally rich, and do all this surgery so as not to disfigure the patient in any way?""