Sage and Coombe worked with the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, Queens for more than a decade to redesign and modernize the historic museum in three phases, affording the Museum accessibility, allowing it to remain open year-round, and bringing it to the rigorous standards of contemporary Museums -- all while maintaining the unique character of the space. All areas underwent full demolition and reinvention, with construction on the final phase completed in Spring 2016.
The Manhattan Project-Another tribute to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can be found at The Noguchi Museum, which features the artist's "Memorials to the Atomic Dead" sculpture, commemorating those lost in the bombings.
The project included a comprehensive reconfiguration of the museum’s building systems that required replacing the entire building envelope, introducing a building management system, and addressing code compliance, accessibility, dewatering, and structural stability
Asked to rethink and renovate the original two buildings occupied by the museum, Sage and Coombe was responsible for the design of a new entry pavilion with a museum-standard acclimatized gallery above; the redesign and restoration of other gallery spaces, museum café, bookshop, multipurpose space, and sculpture storage