Tag Archives: Guggenheim

[Tangential] It ain’t your father’s Guggenheim

This site has an image Zaha Hadid’s proposed design for the (ppossibly) Guggenheim Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.

You could click on the link to see the building, or you can just imagine the product of a drunken menage a trois between a cruise ship, a Japanese sports car and Chicago’s Bean.

Yeah, maybe you should just […]

[News] 10 Wright sites placed on US list for World Heritage Site

Ten buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright have been been named eligible to be nominated for inclusion on the United Nation’s list of World Heritage Sites over the next ten years, a determination made by the US Department of the Interior.

Fallingwater and both Taliesins have been working towards the designation for nearly two decades.

[Lynda] Waggoner […]

Two down, ten to go

The Guardian had put up a page for the second of its “Great Modern Buildings” — the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. J.G. Ballard wrote the essay on Gehry’s famous building. Ballard might be the perfect writer to capture the essence of the shiny, undulating, alien masterpiece.

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is the world’s largest […]