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July 26, 2006

Gehry Designing Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
(CBS News, July 08, 2006)

Starchitect Frank Gehry has been tapped for his second Guggenheim building. The designer of Spain's celebrated Guggenheim Bilbao will build an enormous modern art museum in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Named the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, the 300,000-square-foot construction — the largest Guggenheim venture yet — will be placed on Saadiyat, a 10-square-mile island adjacent to Abu Dhabi. UAE government officials hope that the museum, said to carry a $200 million price tag, will be completed by 2011, and will serve as the centerpiece for a development said to include housing, hotels, a park, a performing arts center, a golf course, and several other museums. Some have criticized the move, arguing that the proliferation of the Guggenheim name places the franchise in danger of becoming the art-world equivalent of Planet Hollywood.

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