we look at the questions victoria newhouse, renee fleming, daniel libeskind and michael kaiser. >> now the transparency is extraordinary, that is a buzzword in that kind of architecture today is transparency. you can look into the lobbiment you can go into the lobby and have a coffee before the concert or after or whatever. and also, meshing the whole center in with the life of the city. i moan this whole ideaof the performing arts being sacrosanct and having to be removed like a temp el on a podium is totally passe. >> rose: cultural institutions and the life inside when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. . >> rose: the metropolitan museum of art holds one of the world's most expansive and impressive collections of islamic art. the objects span3 centuries of islamic civilization that stretch across the middle east, north africa, europe and south asia. in 2003 the galleries closed for renovation, over the course of eight years they were reimagined, rest