HANDICAPPING THE GUGGENHEIM

What are the chances the Guggenheim’s proposed Gehry building for lower Manhattan will ever get built? Not entirely solid. On the other hand, “these days the Guggenheim name is as much a prestige brand as BMW, Bollinger or Armani and not one that is lightly dismissed especially in its home town. [Guggenheim director Thomas] Krens says ‘more than 50’ cities and towns around the world have invited the Guggenheim to set up shop. Sydney Morning Herald

BOLD STROKE: No museum has been so defined by its architecture as the Guggenheim. That helps explain the grand scale of what the proposed lower Manhattan Guggenheim would be. – New York Magazine