Photograph of Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York

By architectjournal.org on March 12, 2012

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as “The Guggenheim”) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, as one of the 20th century’s most important architectural landmarks, especially because it’s unique building shape (formed in spiral shape).

The museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), on the east side of Central Park, New York City, United States. There is a major renovation at the center of the building during our visit.
Picture by : Andie Wicaksono, Vicky Ariyanti
Location : Guggenheim Museum, New York
Date taken : October, 2011, Camera : Nikon D50 DSLR

Readers Comments

climate change »

The Impact of Climate Change: We Need to Act, Not Simply React

January 18, 2013

The effects of climate change including sea level rise, extreme heat, storm surges, threaten water supplies, and negative effects on the infrastructure. Climate change harms public health, as it will threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, diseases transmitted by insects, food and [...]

Moral Responsibility »

Local Wisdom Principe as a Greenship (Rating Tool) for Building

September 28, 2012

Indonesia has abundant of natural resources in terms of renewable energy according to climate change, which has already mainstreamed in most of Indonesia’s policies. Meanwhile, lack of inter-department coordination, limited access to information, and poor policy implementation just become the main weakness. One of this poor policy implementation is greenship for building. Greenship as a [...]

architect journey »

Review of Indonesian Cities from European Perspective

January 27, 2013

This review was to expose general issues of Indonesian cities filtered through a framework of European urban standards, which were represented in two models of urbanity developed by Jacques Levy. The framework consists in 14 factors, with each one of them able to feed a separate lecture. It was read across from several Indonesian cities [...]

public space »

Times Square New York as a Public Place

August 28, 2012

There are a lot of interesting places near Times Square, since this city relying their income from tourism sector. The Times Square located at the heart of New York City, and this place is always crowded for 24 hours. Stores and shopping centers are open everyday, as well as restaurants and cafes, many of them [...]

urban management »

Culture Industry & Indonesia’s Traditional Markets

June 7, 2009

Background: Traditionally, markets in Indonesia were not just places to trade goods and services, but also a place of cultural and social exchange. In the ancient days, markets open once a week (the Javanese calendar only has 5 days in a week; Pahing, Pon, Wage, Kliwon, and Legi) because the population was not as dense [...]