The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, one of the world's leading collections of contemporary art and one of the most striking examples of architecture, was built in 1959. Project author Frank Lloyd Wright conceived of the original design as an inverted pyramid of a spiraling structure with a white façade stretching along Fifth Avenue. The Lego model of 744 bricks of different shapes reproduces in detail not only the creation of the great architect, including the famous spiral and the inscription The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum above the main entrance, but also fragments of the urban landscape: a 10-story limestone tower behind the museum building and even yellow new yorkie taxis plying the main museum avenue. The assembled model of the Guggenheim Museum is 12 cm high, 19 cm wide and 14 cm deep.
For the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright, the MOMA Museum has prepared a retrospective exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, which includes almost 400 archival sketches, drawings and photographs of the most famous architectural projects - the House over the Falls in Pennsylvania, the Temple of Unity in Illinois, the Solomon Museum Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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