The Art Institute of Chicago

As the newest in Scala's acclaimed "Art Spaces" series, "The Art Institute of Chicago: From 1879 to the Modern Wing" celebrates one of America's best-loved art museums and the opening of its major new extension designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano. Piano's canopy of shaped blades bring light into the galleries from the north, providing the perfect venue for the Modern Wing to house the Art Institute's world famous collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. It combines gracefully with the original building, designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge in collaboration with the organisers of the World's Columbian Exposition, which opened in 1893.