When architects hear the name Frank Gehry, their first thoughts are likely to be of adventurous sculptural forms—forms like those found in his twisty residential skyscraper in New York City or the billowing glass sails that wrap the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Or, they might envision the colliding titanium-clad volumes that make up the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the Basque region of Spain, still famous for transforming the economy of that port city two decades after completion.
However, Gehry Partners’ current project at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which officially got underway Thursday with a ceremonial groundbreaking, is of a different nature. The work is contained almost entirely within the footprint of the museum’s 1928 Greek Revival building (most will recognize it from the 1976 movie Rocky) at the head of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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