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Mr. Morgan's New House

edited by Craig Kellogg -- Interior Design, 4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

With Renzo Piano's Whitney Museum of American Art addition and ground-up New York Times tower still years from completion, we couldn't wait to get inside his other local project, the $102 million reinvention of the old Pierpont Morgan Library, newly christened as the Morgan Library and Museum. Art critics are eagerly awaiting the reopening of this world-class collection of drawings and manuscripts, and architecture critics have been talking about the facade of the new atrium. We, of course, were most curious about the interior.

It's splashed with sunlight, courtesy of the glass ceiling that Piano extended from a replacement atrium to the new galleries on the ground and second levels as well as the lavish reading room on the top floor. Underground, there's a 280-seat theater, too. Opening April 29; 212-685-0008; morganlibrary.org.