The Guggenheim plans to research “productive and hospitable office space designs”, staff will be glad to hear, and it is also considering whether to hold a competition to find an architect.
The expansion plan comes just over 60 years after the Guggenheim commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design its original space and more than a decade after it abandoned a scheme for a second, Frank Gehry-designed museum downtown.
— theartnewspaper.com
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The Gwathmey Siegel & Associates addition was a missed opportunity. I hope they can do better this time around.
Aside from the horrendous elevator block added to the top of the spiral Gwathmey's design was a relatively calm backdrop to the existing building.
It's really a travesty that every cubic inch of developable space must be developed. The Guggenheim is much better with air behind it than stuck in the bottom of a canyon.
"a relatively calm backdrop"
A building doesn't have to loud and weird to be good. There are plenty of good and calm buildings. This is just not one of them.
Museum architecture is just not very interesting anymore. Who cares. Try another model.
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