Brilliant digital design
In this building, it is very difficult to use the normal shapes or geometry which we are familiar to combine or to describe its form, Just let me call it – unphysical architecture. However now we know that one part of his inspiration came from his messy drifts or some screwed up papers, and so that we could understand why it's that form! At first this kind of special design style made a huge wave in architectural field, and now it becomes to "Gehrian Style" !
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was established in 1925 by United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife as a memorial to a son who died April 26, 1922. The Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed.
Meyer Guggenheim created a successful business importing lace, but made an investment in Colorado silver mines that put the Guggenheim family into the mining and smelting business, a business (the American Smelting and Refining Company or ASARCO) that expanded to include copper and nitrates not only in Colorado, but eventually in Mexico, Alaska, Chile, and other places around the world.
The first Guggenheim museum was built on fifth avenue in New York in 1959 by Frank Lloyd wright. Till now there are Berlin branch Venice branch and Bilbao branch around the world. Las Vegas branch closed last year. Before 1991 Bilbao is a small industrial town near by sea. Since the later part of nineteenth century Bilbao had been a bustling industrial and mercantile community , but in recent times, in the face of recession, it has been in the difficult position of making a transition to high-service industries.
After few years, Bilbao has a stunning Guggenheim museum branch which covered by shining titanium material, glass walls and massive limestone. There were 1300,000 visitors in the first year and there were over 4000,000 visitors in last 3 years , they were also brought over 4.5 hundred million US dollars incomes for the government and the city. Now Bilbao become the new art culture center of Europe, because of Bilbao "Guggenheim museum" is not only the name of art area. This regenerative power makes the city reborn, we call that- "Guggenheim effects".
Bilbao is in Basque region and it is also the fourth big city in Spain. The government put it in the plans of main upgrading city.
Area: 28.500 square meters
Completion – 1997
Frank O. Gehry
That open area(site) is the geocultural triangle of Bilbao, the river is in the middle of it. There are three major cultural facilities around the museum, the Deusto university, the Bellas Artes museum, and the opera house.
No doubt compare to traditional architecture the digital architecture needs more and more high technology support. Gehry's design can be completely built because of Jim Glymph. He is good at digital technology and the most important staff in Gehry's studio, he brought Gehry's dreams come ture!
Mentioned about to build this kind of weird architecture it's not easy stuff. From the beginning of drafts and sketches transformed to the scaled model, and then use the digital 3D precision instrument
Ask yourself what's your first impression of Guggenheim? The museum in Bilbao covered by titanium? Or the famous architect – Frank O. Gehry? Or do you know what's the most important artefact inside? I think only few people know about the last question, this means the building itself makes a deeply impression to everyone than the "Guggenheim Museum" !
By the way, it's a pity that Guggenheim Museum Taiwan branch project which designed by Zaha Hadid, can not be approved by the government in 2004...
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