The Brooklyn Museum

Additions to original old 19th-century beaux-arts structure include a gigantic obelisk as nucleus of the plan. The metallic frame, standardized grid and flush detailing are ideas that will soon typify the 20th-century to the 21st. Rotation, erasure, and reversal schemes established in the new program will be applied over foundation lines worked out in the master plan a century ago by McKim, Mead & White.