Gordon Bunshaft’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery annex was completed in 1962, at the centennial of the founding of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. The Buffalo-born architect’s modern masterwork was intended to complement and make deference to its setting—its perpendicular lines repeating and reflecting the classical proportions of the original 1905 gallery, the smoke-grey glass walls of the auditorium acting as mirrors to reflect the trees and sky. “Seymour Knox treated me like I was Michelangelo,” stated Bunshaft, referring to the gallery benefactor whose million dollar donation made the project possible, “and I worked harder on that building than I have ever worked in my life.” Today, the Bunshaft annex is potentially threatened by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s latest expansion concept. Gallery director Janne Sirén recently assured preservationists that renderings by architectural firm OMA showing the destruction of half the Bunshaft annex ”are not design.”