BBB replaced the extensive glass roofs that admit natural overhead light into The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Paintings galleries with a sophisticated new infrastructure capable of providing optimum daylight levels and environmental control.
Constructed between 1880 and 1894, Wings A, B, and C are the oldest parts of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s building on Fifth Avenue. The European Paintings galleries have been located on the second floor of these wings since the nineteenth century. In 2015 The Met engaged BBB to design a project to replace the skylights with a technologically advanced glazing system that could better address the issues of sunlight control, thermal efficiency, system longevity, and condensation prevention.
