Beyond Spackle: Fixing the Guggenheim

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You may have noticed that the Guggenheim Museum has been shrouded in mesh netting lately, and it makes sense the museum would be undergoing some facade/maintenance work. The NY Times, though, has this amazing graphic showing the cracks in the museum's walls. The Guggenheim explains the restoration online (and with podcast- MP3) and also has an exhibit about "Restoring a Masterpiece."

Don't worry, though - the Times reports the structure is "structurally sound." And here's a panorama Jake stitched together from last year's Zaha Hadid show.

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Cracks in the Guggenheim, Fallingwater is, literally, falling down, a friend buys his dream house, a Wright Usonian, and finds the kitcken absolutely unworkable. Such feet of clay!

Spackle is a registered trade mark of the Muralo Company.

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Guggenheim NY, big deal, tear it down and build condos. FLW never did understand the true meaning of architecture. Hmm? It seems that FG doesn't either.

Both have/ had a thought process that went beyond the materials they worked with. IDIOTS! Most architects don't know a screw gun from a screw.

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