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GUGGENHEIM 50 YEARS /  24-HOUR SCOPE

Guggenheim Museum 50-years celebration / Commission


-Mechanized vehicular transportation moves us indeterminate distances while keeping us perfectly still relative to an interior environment.
-We are connected across unimaginable distances through a process of isolation from the conditions of our movement.
-We achieve perfect surveillance of a landscape that, through factors of speed, scale and atmosphere, becomes perfectly invisible.
-The Boeing 707 jet airliner began domestic service in the United States in 1959, the same year in which the Guggenheim museum opened in New York.
-In 2009 in Central Park, climb through a metal tube and ascend. The tube encounters the building in a moment of peace and balance.
-Within it, at altitude, you find yourself suspended within the column of air at the center of the Guggenheim rotunda, but realize that you are unable to go any further.
-There is no entry.
-You do not land on the ramp that you see.
-You are not in the museum.
-You cannot see the art.
-But you’re still in the city.
-You’re back where you began.

materials:

Eight decommissioned Boeing 707 fuselages interconnected to form one continuous tube, and cut to create two apertures for entry and observation.

architect:

LOT-EK

Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano, Keisuke Nibe, Virginie Stolz, Andrea Pellacani, Florence Schmitt, Thomas de Monchaux