Guggenheim opens
new museum in Saugus
Building will be mecca for Lynn, Revere arts communities Architecture
aficionados from around the globe are flocking to Frank Gehrys new Guggenheim Saugus
museum. The museum, which critics are calling "the last great building of the
century," is a soaring titanium and steel structure on Route 1 right next to Route 1
Miniature Golf.
"This building does not cower in denial of modernism, but rather enhances it by
joining modernisms power to the civilizing forces of urbanism," said New Yorker
critic Paul Goldberger. "With its proximity to Roller World, it is sure to attract
art lovers worldwide."
"In its atrium, museum-goers will find stone, glass, titanium, curves, straight
lines, opacity, transparency, openness and enclosure brought into sensuous
conjunction," said New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp.
"And at the nearby fashion nightclub Oxygen, AKA "the Palace," museum-goers
will find every different kind of dance experience imaginable."
Sculptor Richard Serra has created a tremendous new steel sculpture, "Big
Hair," to be installed in the museums atrium. |