The concept above, which was dreamed up by Oiio Architecture Office of New York and Athens, features three times as many floors as Wright’s original design. “[The Guggenheim] has become so iconic, so emblematic and hermetic in our minds that it can no longer be touched by architects,” they write of their purely hypothetical design. “Even if its own creator were to propose an alternation of its form, New Yorkers would suddenly feel as if they have lost a dear old friend.” Indeed. [via Dezeen]
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