The opportunity to renovate one of New York Citys most important cultural buildings,Marcel Breuers Brutalist icon at 945 Madison Avenue, has been granted to a partnership that includesHerzog & de MeuronandPBDW Architects afterSothebys named the firm to the project on Monday.H&dM's co-founderJacques Herzog says the project will be carried out with much the same precision as the firms previous renovation of the Park Avenue Armory not far away in their shared Upper East Side neighborhood. Existing spaces will be adapted to meet the current business and exhibition needs, while Breuers "original vision" of the 58-year-old design is recuperated both within and without for both the public and private clients."The Breuer Building is such an amazing architectural icon of postwar modernism which wejust like all architectshave always admired. Since our early work in the 1970s, we have always placed great importance on working with existing buildings, not only from a sustainable...