Hirshhorn Museum: revised sculpture garden designs and Sugimoto threatening to quit

The Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden revitalization saga is entering a new chapter: while the museum recently released revised designs for the reflecting pool, the centerpiece of the sunken sculpture garden completed in 1974 by Gordon Bunshaft, during a March 10 Section 106 online meeting, the Cultural Landscape Foundation points out that the overhaul's designer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, had threatened to resign from the project over a key design element — the introduction of stacked stone walls in the current modernist landscape.