Play pretend jury member and pick the future Guggenheim Helsinki
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has posted online all 1,715 design ideas submitted for a new Guggenheim museum in Helsinki. These schemes are from the open-call portion of the design competition launched this past June, which is being run by London’s Malcolm Reading Consultants.
In the meantime, online visitors can be their own jury by creating a virtual “shortlist.” The six official shortlisted ideas will be unveiled on Dec. 2, and a winner will be announced in June 2015. Guggenheim Helsinki is slated for the city’s Eteläsatama (South Harbor).
http://designguggenheimhelsinki.org/stageonegallery/
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry discusses the inception of his pavilion-like cultural center in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne, and how his design process influenced the result.
http://www.architectmagazine.com/cultural-projects/fondation-louis-vuitton-designed-by-gehry-partners_o.aspx?dfpzone=awards
Fondation Louis Vuitton Opens to the Public
A roundup of one-liners about Frank Gehry’s structure in Paris.
Rowan Moore: “Everything that is good about the Fondation could have been achieved, and better, without the sails.” [The Guardian]
Alex Bozikovic: “The Fondation building, whose gestation began over a decade ago, feels a bit like a time capsule from the Age of the Starchitect.” [The Globe and Mail]
Jay Merrick: “The Fondation’s giddy geometry is hard to resist. It has created a building with no clear sense of inside and outside.” [The Independent
Picasso Museum in Paris to Open Doors After 5-Year Renovation
After five years locked in storage or roaming on traveling exhibitions, a trove of Pablo Picasso’s works have been put back on display in their remodeled home, a 17th-century mansion in the Marais district.
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