The long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open in five years, said the institution’s director Richard Armstrong at a press briefing held today in Basel. — The Art Newspaper
One of Frank Gehry’s most-anticipated projects to date, the $200 million Guggenheim Abu Dhabi satellite museum, has been pushed back numerous times over the years after being originally announced by Armstrong’s predecessor in July of 2006.
Armstrong’s tenure has been permeated by protests over the labor conditions of workers in the UAE. The new museum will complete the cultural segment of Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, which includes Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi and a planned performing art center from Zaha Hadid.
“We think it should be five years from next week,” he said. “It looks like everything is coming together, so we can say something definitive. It has been a relatively long gestation.”
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What is this steaming mess?
The inspiration was the pile left from an inverted office trash receptacle.
Gehry lets the visitors right down to the water, in Nouvel's, you are always five feet above. That is a nice difference and I hope it's built that way. (My ten seconds gaze to both.)
wonderful news! abu dhabi here i come.;)
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