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Beyond the Surface?
Frank Gehry gets a new challenge in the city of brotherly love where he has been slated to design the new addition to The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the renovation of its existing neo-Classical building under an ambitious 10-year master plan. NYT l PI
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Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[sigh] it was only a matter of time before phithy joined the cult of frank.
waiting for the onion article:
"evidence indicates that there may be more than 10 architects!"
now, this has a chance of becoming one of gehry's best projects.
he is very good when he is restricted and low keyed.
what will the master do when there are no clouds to be depicted?
wait and see all the way...
I agree, Orhan.
I'm relieved it will be mostly invisible, and hope the existing galleries are not too altered by his interventions in eforts to bring light down below.
I also find this sad because it is yet again Philly showing its inferiority complex. "Us, too! We can have Frank Gehry too!" Why not be truly risky and pick someone who is not known at all but is producing amazing work and just needs a plum job like this to bring them into public attention? Even using Gluckman across the street is a bolder move than yet another FOG.
I love the PMA - dearly - having worked there several times over the years, and Anne D'Harnoncourt is one of the most amazing women on the planet, period. But I see again they are being "slow adaptors".
Though, as you said Orhan, Gehry does seem to produce cool work when he's very constrained, and said in the Times article he looks forward to treating the existing building delicately. One can hope this will be his understated masterpiece.
Also, Steven your Onion headline is brilliant - and sadly too true.
I wonder if the Paris Onion in 1960 said the same thing?
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