A clay model of the Guggenheim Museum, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Guggenheim Museum in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

New York · United States

Guggenheim Museum

30 metres · 98 feet

See its ground on the live map →
Height
30 m98 ft
Completed
1959
By
Frank Lloyd Wright
Coordinates
40° 46′ 59″ N73° 57′ 32″ W · 40.7830, -73.9590

The rotunda’s bands of ramp widening as they rise, with the small rotunda beside it on a long low base, all under the skylight’s shallow dome.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under New York, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

Other landmarks