Frank Gehry’s proposal for The Guggenheim Museum in downtown Manhattan:
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Why was this never built?
Thank goodness this never got built.
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It was the Guggenheim Museum’s answer to an RFP issued by the NYEDC for a new museum/cultural center in Manhattan, but they ran into financial problems and abandoned the project/proposal in 2002.
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Ha! well, maybe not there, but It would have been nice to have it on the other side of the east river
Idk about that either, it would’ve been absolutely massive and I feel like it would’ve disrupted the area of the skyline its in on either side.
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I was thinking that we could have gotten a similar relationship that the Sidney Opera house has with the Sidney skyline.
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The Sydney Opera House is way smaller than I remember it
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If they ever expand Lower Manhattan with landfill, this would be the perfect addition to give it that extra bit of panache. You know, that extra kick.
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Bank of Southwest Tower
Houston
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/bank-of-southwest-tower/187
and Chicago
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New renderings depict three unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright skyscrapers in astonishing detail
THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER
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Well, that would’ve been something else, but I’d imagine they’d have problems as Wright projects are/were notorious for having problems.
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True, maybe dealing with those problems is the price of getting to enjoy these masterpieces 
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