The New Museum announced on June 26th plans for its second building, designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. This will be OMA's first public building in New York City. The design complements and respects the integrity of the Museum's SANAA-designed flagship building and replaces the Museum's 50,000 square foot adjacent property at 231 Bowery, acquired in 2008. The new seven-story, 60,000 square foot building will include three floors of galleries, doubling the Museum's exhibition space, along with additional space for the Museum's many community and education programs, a permanent home for its cultural incubator NEW INC, as well as increased public amenities and improved vertical circulation. Adding a total of 10,096 sq. feet of exhibition space, the new galleries in the OMA building will connect with the SANAA building's galleries on three levels (second, third, and fourth floors), with the ceiling heights aligning on each floor, doubling space for exhibitions and seamless horizontal connectivity between the buildings. "The building gives us the opportunity to continue to experiment with new formats and models around various areas of programmatic focus," said Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director. "These areas include new productions and ambitious new commissions; contextual exhibition presentations; studio space for artist residencies; and international partnerships and collaborations with peer institutions around the world." James Keith Brown, President of the New Museum's Board, also announced that the Museum has received a lead gift of $20M to its Capital Campaign, the largest gift in the institution's history, from longtime trustee Toby Devan Lewis. The Museum will recognize Lewis's leadership role at the New Museum by naming the OMA building in her honor. Groundbreaking for the new building is scheduled to start in 2020. The Museum will remain open and operational during most of the construction period, with a projected opening in 2022.