Jeffrey Sipprell

« A Change so Massive... | | More News from Abu Dhabi »

February 1, 2007

Gehry's New Guggenheim

The first project I worked on at Frank's office is now public. As part of a larger master plan by SOM in Abu Dhabi, a new Guggenheim museum was unveiled yesterday along with other cultural complexes by Novel, Hadid and Ando. The NY Times has a couple of articles - one covering the press release and one a commentary by Nicolai Ouroussoff.

I worked on the project from my initial hire on Sept 25 to just before Christmas - seeing the project through its final massing stages and then on to the shaping and structuring of the overall form. The picture above is from the smaller model that fit into SOM's master plan model - I cannot begin to tell you how long that model took to put together at that level of detail. I feel like I earned a masters degree in sanding.

So far it's been a very rich experience at the office to have the balance between the initial design of the museum coupled with the refinement and development of the Barclays Center project in Brooklyn. Hopefully as more of that becomes public I'll be able to post more about it.

Posted by jsipprell at February 1, 2007 10:40 PM

Comments

Post a comment

Name:

Email Address:

URL:
Remember Me? YesNo

Comments: