From the Washington Post:
From the street, the addition to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts follows roughly the same roof line as the rather dour brick structure it adjoins. A large expanse of glass connects the two spaces, and despite the obvious philosophical and aesthetic gulf between the new and old structures, they look content to be side by side. Like almost every museum expansion project in recent years, this is about the institution’s public image, its ability to serve a distracted audience and harvest cash from a new bar, restaurant and gift shop. But this expansion successfully cloaks all of that in a generous mantle of calm.
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