Along with a 26,000-square-foot expansion, the Leers Weinzapfel Associates–designed project includes the renovation of two historic buildings.

The redesign of the famed pedestrian boulevard incorporates new paving, plantings, and infrastructure. 

With the revamp of the London museum’s 1990s-era wing well underway, a typed letter deposited by Lord Sainsbury has been discovered in one of the foyer’s false columns.