[Texas Monthly] The New York-based firm got the job. When Viñoly passed away unexpectedly, Komati stepped in to carry out his vision: a two-hundred-by-two-hundred-foot exhibition hall that appears to float forty feet above the ground. "Wherever you are, you’re always looking up or surrounded by that block," Komati says. "It’s always reminding you of the incomprehensible nature of valor—the sheer force required to lift such a weight, both physically and metaphorically."One of the biggest showstoppers is a restored Bell UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" medevac helicopter, the same kind flown by Patrick Brady in the Vietnam War. The museum was already two-thirds done when Chuck Carlock, a fellow Vietnam pilot and collector in Fort Worth, reached out about donating the aircraft. The only way to get it inside was via crane, but the exterior was already complete. Undeterred, Komati and the architectural team went to work removing part of the building so the helicopter could be installed and the exterior rebuilt.
I wanted to post a similar article from the Dallas Morning News, but found this instead. The News article had more architecture stuff, and only a little politics - 'no public transit to the site’, and 'government slashing funding'. The News did however, observe this museum was all privately funded.