OMA has shared new renderings for its New Museum expansion in New York City ahead of the projects anticipated May completion. It adds60,000 square feet and doubles the gallery spaces offered by its SANAA-designed neighbor.Shohei Shigematsu is leading the project and says it will offer itself as a "highly connected yet distinct counterpart to the existing museums verticality and solidity."Image rendering courtesy OMA/bloomimages.deThe design features a new ground-floor restaurant and home for artists' residencies, a 74-seat forum venue, and the museums in-house culture incubator at the uppermost levels. As a fellow vertical sequence of diversly programmed spaces aimed at creating an "active public face" for its community, OMAs vision for expansion helps to serve institutional aims while eliminating dichotomiesbetween old and new, and the vertical and horizontalendemic in the typology through studied setbacks and a resuscitation of metalic facade materials.Image rendering c...