Guggenheim Museum

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	Guggenheim Museum
Designer	Frank Lloyd Wright
Location	New York, New York, USA
Date	1956 to 1959
Building Type	art museum
Climate	temperate
Context	urban
Architectural Style	Modern
Street Address	1071 Fifth Avenue Walk Score
Notes	S.400. Unique spiral ramping gallery, sculptural massing. Faces across the street to Central Park. Parent institution of the <a href="/buildings/Guggenheim_Bilbao.html">Guggenheim Bilbao</a> by Frank Gehry.
At Great Buildings	http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Guggenheim_Museum.html

Contents 1 Images 2 Discussion 2.1 The Wright (restaurant) 2.1.1 Project Credits 3 Maps 4 References 5 External Links

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National Register of Historic Places
Name	Guggenheim, Solomon R., Museum
ID Number	5000443
NRHP Status	Listed In The National Register
Certification Date	05/19/2005
Level of Significance	National
NRHP Documents	Text (pdf) ; Photos (pdf)

Building Details
Awards	America's Favorite Architecture 2007; Ranked 74 of 150.

Commentary

"...[Wright's] great swansong, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York, is a gift of pure architecture—or rather of sculpture. It is a continuous spatial helix, a circular ramp that expands as it coils vertiginously around an unobstructed well of space capped by a flat-ribbed glass dome. A seamless construct, the building evoked for Wright 'the quiet unbroken wave.'..."

— Spiro Kostof. A History of Architecture, Settings and Rituals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. p740.

The Creator's Words

"Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters."

— Frank Lloyd Wright. "Frank Lloyd Wright", The Architectural Forum, January, 1948, Vol 88 Number 1. p89.

Details

American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award, 1986

Address

1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York

[edit] The Wright (restaurant)

Building Modification ()
	The Wright
Designer	Andre Kikoski Architect, New York, New York, USA
Date
Building Type	Restaurant
Architectural Style	Modern
Builder	James G. Kennedy & Co., Inc.
Notes	In association with lighting designer Tillotson Design Associates

Building Details
Client	Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Area	1,600 square feet
Awards	* Recipient, Lumen Award of Merit IES New York Lumen Awards 2010. Recipient, 2012 AIA Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture.

[edit] Project Credits

• Architect: Andre Kikoski Architect
• Engineer: HHF Design Consulting, Ltd.
• General Contractor: James G. Kennedy & Co., Inc.
• Lighting: Tillotson Design Associates

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1071 Fifth Ave: Frank Lloyd Wright & the Story of the Guggenheim Museum. Home Vision Entertainment, 1994 or 2002. VHS-NTSC format video tape. ISBN 630304798X.— Video - Available at Amazon.com

Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. drawings and diagrams, p134-135.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com

William S. Saunders. Modern Architecture—Photographs by Ezra Stoller. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3816-2. exterior photo, p38. interior photo, p39.— A wonderful & inspiring book of beautiful photographs by the master of architectural photography. Available at Amazon.com

Michael Brawne. The New Museum. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1965. Plans, p142. Section, p142.

Howard Davis. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1702.060.

Udo Kulterman. Architecture in the 20th Century. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. ISBN 0-442-00942-9. LC 92-26734. NA680.K7913 1993. drawing of exterior perspective, p109. — Available at Amazon.com

Lawrence A. Martin, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, September 1993. PCD.3235.1012.0545.033. addition to Guggenheim Museum.

Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. exterior, interior photos, section drawing, plan drawing, p227. — Available at Amazon.com

Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986. photos, fig 854-856, p 536, 537.— Available at Amazon.com

National Register of Historic Places

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. National Historic Landmark Nomination document. National Parks Service.

The Wright at the Guggenheim Museum

[edit] External Links

• The Wright restaurant at AIA Honor Awards 2012 website
• The Wright restaurant at Andre Kikoski Architect website