When TodWilliams and BillieTsien of New York won the commission through a competition held by the Barnes Foundation, they even received the architectural equivalent of hate mail.
The spectacular contemporary architecture, by the New York team of TodWilliams and BillieTsien, cradles the modest graces of the Merion structure with an air of religious veneration.
Thanks to the architects, TodWilliams and BillieTsien, who understood from the beginning the delicate nature of their task, the Barnes experience today is identical to what it was previously.