The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum, a 460-seat, 10,000-square-foot lecture, film, and concert hall, is the first public product of an ongoing collaboration there between the offices of James Steward Polshek and Arata Isozaki. The team won a 1986 competition for a new master plan for the museum, an imposing but unfinished Neoclassical building designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1893.

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Photography: Pat Bazelon