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The Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York is the last of legendary Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpieces. It was built between 1955 and 1959. In 2007, the museum's unusual ribbon-like exterior was restored. Bits of the concrete were saved during the restoration project.

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao by the RiverwalkChess news from Susan Polgar

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is poised to name Richard Armstrong as its new director, replacing Thomas R. Krens, who is stepping down.

Are you a big Frank Lloyd Wright fan?  Now you can own a piece, literally, of Wright’s historic Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.  Actual fragments of the museum were set aside and saved during the 2007 restoration process and they have now been formed into a jewelry collection aptly named Restoration Rocks.

Filed under: Jewelry I simply LOVE this collection of jewelry! Aptly named Restoration Rocks, each piece contains fragments of Frank Lloyd Wright's historic Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum that were set aside and saved during the 2007 restoration process.

Picasso's Le Moulin de la GaletteThe paintings are not only priceless, but they have been among the star attractions at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the city's equally renowned Guggenheim Museum for more than four decades.

BoingBoing Gadgets reports: The International Central Service’s Online Toaster Museum shows in nearly infinite nuanced zoological detail just what happens when a piece of technology reaches evolutionary perfection: innovation switches to design.

In July issue of The Brooklyn Rail, I wrote about an Imi Knoebel installation at Dia:Beacon. The installation, billed as a restoration of Knoebel's 1977 project "24 Colors--For Blinky," was in fact a wholesale recreation of the enormous project.

After what Hassan Fathy did for Egypt by reintroducing local building materials and techniques - re-establishing the use of the local adobe brick as a fundamental building material - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia lecturer Professor Dr.

Yesterday we spent about 2 hours at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan tripping out on Louise Bourgeois’s work. Certainly a must see. Image, a birds eye view of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural design from above.