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GRAM: sustainable museum

I love sustainability, bro…

“Critics often discuss the “Bilbao effect,” museum officials’ efforts to reproduce the success of Frank Gehry’s 1997 Guggenheim Museum design in Spain, with a hint of cynicism. But the fetishizing of art museum buildings by celebrity architects, like the new glassy, chunky, Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and the rabidly anticipated iMac-looking New Museum in New York, has already “jumped the shark,” leaving museum-makers scrambling to define a new trend. Could environmental friendliness be the new metal-building version of a crumpled piece of paper?”

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