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March 21, 2007

My Abu Dhabi adventure

UK Guardian, "theblogart&architecture"

Gehry-n-AbuDhabi.jpg I've just turned 78 and am about to design the biggest Guggenheim yet. Can I pull it off?

I'm fine, by the way, but I'm not getting any younger, and I don't want to hang a kind of creative albatross around the neck of my team; I don't want them stuck with a legacy they feel they have to follow. I like experimenting; I want them to.

It's going to take four years to build, so I'll be 82 by the time we're through - it better be good! It's going to be nothing like the new Moma in New York, by the way; that's like a big, shiny department store.

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Suggestion for "My Brooklyn adventure":

I've just turned 78 and am about to design the densest residential community ever. Can I pull it off?

It's going to take twenty years to build, so I'll be, like, 98 by the time we're through - it better be good! It's going to be nothing like MetroTech in Downtown Brooklyn, by the way; that's like a gigantic, souless, highrise mall.

Posted by lumi at March 21, 2007 8:10 PM