This "Guggenheim Extension" proposal is not a real thing that is going to happen, but what if it did happen? The Oiio Architecture Office has knocked out these renderings that give the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum thirteen more floors. They write:
"Its famous ramps would continue their ascent 'completing' the atrium under the glass roof. The vertical 'completion' of Guggenheim would lead to the formation of an internal cone at the peak of which the circular ramp would become a homogeneous level, the last floor of the museum. The glass roof becomes a light source, diffusing it’s rays towards the interior."
Of course, we'll never see this rendering—which looks like a heavenly endless ramp into The Light—turn into reality. They believe that because the building "has become so iconic, so emblematic and hermetic in our minds... it can no longer be touched by architects! Even if his own creator were to propose an alternation of its form, New Yorkers would suddenly feel as if they have lost a dear old friend."
[Architizer via Curbed]
