Last night, at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual fall gala, director Adam Weinberg announced that its new Renzo Piano–designed building in New York City’s meatpacking district will open Friday, May 1, 2015, just four years after breaking ground.

The modern and contemporary art museum, whose blockbuster shows have ranged from Yayoi Kusama to the smashingly successful Jeff Koons, shuttered its Upper East Side Marcel Breuer space to the public on October 19, leaving New York’s art scene to wait with bated breath for updates on the new location. The highly anticipated structure is intended to hold the same architectural importance as its predecessor, with approximately twice the exhibition space. The asymmetrical, industrial-style building, with its dramatic, cantilevered entrance will sit between the High Line and the Hudson, the newest fixture on New York’s fashionable West Side.

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