Hamburg Design Center by OMA from Dezeen.
The Guggenheim in New York is nice but the one in Bilbao, Spain is even nicer. But between the Hamburg installation and the Atomium I now have a reason to visit Germany/Belgium. The blather on Dezeen is eyebrow-raising. The building is composed of 10 modular blocks yet changing the configuration of the structure is done by moving internal partitions using technology that’s probably not much more advanced than a high-school gymnasium. You figure you could move the blocks around Lego-style. One day, one day.
Guggenheim Bilbao superior to New York? Blasphemy! FLW would be rolling in his grave, that is, if Unitarians believed in an afterlife.
Personally, I’ve always found Gehry’s buildings to be functional nightmares. The Guggenheim also appears to be the last new idea he’s had, all his recent stuff is just variations on the same form.
Frank Lloyd Wright owes the world an apology over the Lindholm Service Station and Frank Gehry wastes space better than any architect I’ve ever seen.