concept & vision

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. You are still in the city. You are back where you began

design & architecture

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