August 6, 2012

A Sleek, Solar-Powered Guggenheim for Saudi Arabia




A Sleek, Solar-Powered Guggenheim for Saudi Arabia

All over the world, the Guggenheim Museums are known as much for their iconic architecture as they are for the artworks housed within them. These cultural landmarks include the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; the museums in Bilbao, Spain, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, designed by Frank Gehry; and the Guggenheim in Taiwan, designed by  Zaha Hadid. Now a unique design for the Guggenheim slated for Saudi Arabia, by Abdul Alharbi aims to integrate the future-forward city of Jeddah into that global cultural network.

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