The Hirshhorn plans to redesign its sculpture garden to create a more direct, obvious entrance to the garden grounds from the National Mall, the Smithsonian modern art museum announced in a press release on Monday. The new garden will be designed by Hiroshi Sugimoto, the architect and artist who redesigned the entire lobby of the Hirshhorn last year.

“Adjacent to the National Mall, the sunken garden is barely visible to both Mall and museum visitors,” the press release reads. “Sugimoto’s early concept calls for an enhanced entrance facing the National Mall, directly engaging the more than 35 million people who pass through each year.”

This will be the first renovation for the Hirshhorn’s sculpture garden since the 1980s. The museum itself was first built in 1974. According to the release, original plans for the sculpture garden envisioned a huge expanse that “traversed the entire National Mall’s width,” but those plans never materialized. In 1981, another architect, Lester Collins, renovated the sculpture garden, making it more accessible for strollers and wheelchairs and adding much more greenery than originally existed there, according to the Smithsonian.

Sugimoto’s redesign will create space for “large-scale contemporary works and performances,” according to the release, as well as space to showcase artwork. The renovation may also involve reopening the “underground passage” that connects the garden to the museum plaza. The passage was a part of the original design of the garden, but has been closed for 30 years. The new renovation will also fix several “critical infrastructure issues” in the garden, per the Hirshorn.

Perhaps the most obvious difference will be its visibility from the Mall. “This project creates a ‘front door’ for the Hirshhorn on the National Mall,” said Dan Sallick, Hirshhorn board chair, in the release. He described the changes as creating “a 21st-century outdoor space for sculpture and performance that will become a beacon for many more visitors.”

The museum and Sugimoto are still currently in talks about the concept for the new garden, and will soon announce a public consultation meeting at the museum to discuss the plan, which already has the unanimous approval of the Hirshhorn’s board of trustees. After that, the museum will submit its plans for approval to the National Capital Planning Commission.