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| | Plots & Plans: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Frank Gehry Plan for Lower Manhattan's waterfront (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Unfortunately, the museum, which was encountering financial difficulties, abandoned this ambitious plan at the end of 2002. |
 | | In 1999, the Guggenheim Museum, flush with world-wide praise for its new museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Gehry, and under the very dynamic leadership of its director, Thomas Krens, proposed an immense mixed-use project for the former Manhattan Landing site that would be designed by Gehry. |
 | | The museum's exhibition on the proposed downtown Gehry-designed museum is overwhelming in its inclusion of hundreds of preparatory studies, sketches and models and it includes a very large model of the present design as well as a very large model of Lower Manhattan with the museum project model in place, in scale, shown below. |
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