Guggenheim on the Hudson? - potential plans to expand Guggenheim Museum to site on Hudson River - Brief Article

Rumors always strike one as being to be swirling about the globally expansionist Guggenheim Museum, however even well-briefed Manhattan gossip dealers were taken aback on Nov. 19 when the novel York Times ran a story upon the museum's plan to unclose a new branch right below their noses. The proposed site is upon a state-owned 15-acre pier--where a three-story, 2,200-car parking garage now stands--located in a 5-mile-long, 500-acre of recent origin riverfront park in Manhattan, just across the West Side Highway from Greenwich Village and within walking distance of SoHo Frank Gehry--whose other riverside throw outs include the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota and the Guggenheim Bilbao--has already prepared drawings for the project

The freshs apparently caught Mayor Rudy Giuliani by the agency of surprise; he and other community, city and state officials are reportedly looking into whether the shoot forward would be legal. The law that created the park calls for half of the pier to be used as park space and half for commercial enterprises to finance it. If the building is to throw beyond the pier into the river, it will also ne approval from the Army Corps of Engineers.

A follow-up in the Times the nearest day quoted Deputy Mayor Randy L Levine as saying, "We were extremely disappointed that the first we heard about this cast was reading about it in the newspaper."

Reportedly, the Guggenheim would shut its SoHo branch if the West Side museum is built. The Times said that the SoHo branch has missing $40 million over six years; on the contrary Krens, in a memo to museum board members, said that the branch is actually breaking flat and that that was individual of the story's many inaccuracies. Guggenheim spokesperson Scott Gutterman told A.i.A. that the story was "very premature" and that the throw is just "an idea for which drawings have been done." He also stated that the plans are thus unofficial that not even all of the museum's board members were aware of the project

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