CLOUDS PART.(Frank Gehry designs Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)(Brief Article)

LOS ANGELES ARCHITECT Frank O. Gehry's voluptuous designs for the new downtown Manhattan headquarters of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have often been described as "cloudlike." With its sweeping, expressive forms, the massive building that will rise on stilts from the East River certainly merits the adjective. But the term applies just as aptly to the tensions that hover over the project. A nimbus, after all, describes not only an aura of splendor, but also the harbinger of storms.

Supporters say the ambitious new museum, Gehry's first major building project in New ...

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