Hasta La Ideas

Outside of their new permanent home in Abu Dhabi, and now possibly also in Helsinki, you might recall that the Guggenheim Foundation announced last October a series of traveling exhibitions, called the BMW Guggenheim Labs, which will travel to three cities every year and camp out at each for roughly three months. Sticking close to home for the first, they’ve hired the Tokyo-based, regular Droog collaborators, Atelier Bow-Wow, to design and build for them a temporary structure somewhere in New York. Now it appears that that “somewhere” might get more specific, as the NY Times reports that the Guggenheim has a request in with the city to use an empty lot at 33 East First Street to house it (the story begins roughly halfway down the page). The paper continues with the news that a “final vote is scheduled for Tuesday” with Community Board 3 (the city owns the East Village parcel of land). If it passes, which seems likely, the first Lab will open sometime in August.

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