The number of artworks displayed to the public will more than double when the expanded and renamed Buffalo Albright-Knox-Gundlach Art Museum, or Buffalo AKG Art Museum, reopens in 2022.
Albright-Knox expansion kicks off with $10M more from Gundlach
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From left, Barbara Van Every, Jeffrey Gundlach and Alice Jacobs, board president, at the groundbreaking for the AK360 campus expansion at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News)
An architectural model depicts the glass and mirror bridge that will connect the 2022 addition to the 1905 building. Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News)
An architectural model depicts the glass-walled addition to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
An architectural model depicts the glass and mirror bridge that will connect the 2022 addition to the 1905 building. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News)
Benefactor Jeffrey Gundlach arrives for the groundbreaking for the AK360 campus expansion at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, which will reopen as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum when it is complete in 2022. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News)
A curvy, scenic bridge will connect the new north building with the 1905 building and help with the transport of artwork. (Courtesy of Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
A semi-transparent, three-story building on the northeast end of the campus – shown here in a rendering – will double exhibition space and serve as the main entrance to the new gallery.
A covered courtyard will provide passage to and from Delaware Park under a mirrored, funnel-shaped glass canopy. (Courtesy of Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
A green plaza will replace the surface parking lot, with parking moved underground. (Courtesy of Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
The 1905 building's front steps that were removed decades ago will be restored.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery announced Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 that it will receive an additional $10 million donation from Jeffrey Gundlach to help pay for the museum's expansion. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News)
A rendering of the "Common Sky" canopy for a new civic space coming to the Seymour H. Knox Building. Construction is expected to start this week and last three months.
Despite the added challenges brought on by the pandemic, museum officials say it has had only a slight effect on the project's timeline. Â
The billionaire bond trader and investor who grew up in Snyder announced the community challenge grant Tuesday on Twitter.
The $168 million expansion project broke ground on Nov. 22, 2019, and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2022.
It'll be at least another two years until the Buffalo AKG Art Museum opens to the public, but here's an early aerial glimpse.
