Connection between these galleries would happen vertically with stairs, elevators, and a horizontal connection to the permanent collection galleries would be made by an enclosed bridge at the fourth and fifth floors. The wall of the bridge would visually connect the complete MoMA site, making a coherent statement on 54th Street. Views of the garden would be framed by the top of the existing wall and bottom of the bridge. The bridge, by being high above the garden and to the north, would not create a shadow but would have a presence. In this scheme the Goodwin and Stone building is used for staff and curatorial offices on the second through the sixth floors.
Galleries are in the new addition.
The store remains in the Philip Johnson building and uses the second and third floors. The second scheme, or nonbridge scheme, uses the space above the existing Sette MoMA to make a building to house staff offices. This will allow the majority of the office and support staff to work in spaces with light and air. It will be a freestanding building with connection to the rest of the Museum and staff entry and circulation occurring at the lobby and basement floors. We believe that the Museum must find its identity and the integrity of its identity from the inside out.