Queens Changes Architects (Does It Say More About The Museum Than The Architect?)

Three years ago, after extensive discussions and a competition, an architect was chosen for a redo of New York’s Queens Museum of Art. Now the museum is abandoning the plan and starting over. “A change in architects may not seem earthshaking. But the Queens Museum’s about-face suggests how a much-heralded public architecture project can be derailed by economics, politics, personalities and competing visions of how an institution operates day to day.”