Pelli Clarke & Partners have shared news of their completed renovation and expansion of the Muscarelle Museum of Art atThe College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.Their reworking of the original Carlton Abbot design of 1983 includes a 42,000-square-foot expansion while renovating the existing 17,000-square-foot facility to enable more modern exhibitions programming and research of its 8,000-object permanent collection.Photo by Tom HarrisOne of Americas oldest institutions of higher learning, The College of William & Mary was established via a royal charter in 1693 and boasts a rich collection of Georgian and Colonial Revival-style architecture on its campus.Photo by Tom HarrisPhoto by Tom HarrisFor the Muscarelle Museum, Pelli Clarke & Partners took this as a main referent, using a simple language of pleated brick, metal, and vertical lance windows in the new wing (which is called the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Art) in what is further described as a "...