Guggenheim

Frank Lloyd Wright, great architect of the 20th century, designed the beautiful Guggenheim Museum in New York, a master of space and light, you’d think it would carry over into a nice bathroom.  Not even close.  As you traverse up the ramp, on every level there is a tiny bathroom tucked in with a column, accessible right from the ramp.  Take a step from the glorious open space, turn the golden handle on the bathroom door and poof – you are in another world.  A cramped, awkward, ugly, dingy world.  Wright was known for making hallways tight and small to accentuate the spaces they lead to, was that what he was thinking here?  The only reason bathrooms exist on the ramps is he must have been forced to spread them around and didn’t want to waste gallery space. Otherwise they’d all be in the basement.

Design – 0 That’s right.  I’m giving FLW a big fat zero on the bathroom design.  It sucks worse than Starbucks.  Am I at the Guggenheim Museum or the night watchman’s basement bathroom at a wire hanger factory?

Cleanliness - 4 Not so neat.

Layout – 2 Awful.  There’s a column right in front of the toilet.

Extra Credit – 10 Peeing in the junkspace of an architectural masterpiece.

1071 5th Ave, New York, NY

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