Artist Matthew Ritchie’s dense, evocative drawing, “The House of GI – A Proposal”, divides the museum into different mechanically sustained micro-climates. The scheme shapes sensuous mountain, forest, mud, sand, snow, and underground habitats, each one rich in mythological connotations.
     The most resonant and unsentimental proposal comes from art collective N55. Its project supplies visitors with demolition kits to take apart the building, which they understand to represent a “concentration of power”, and return it to the environment. The rendering depicts an idyllic, engaging, feral landscape, where ruins of the existing structure are overrun with native flora and fauna. It’s a new type of park. The Guggenheim building, although it has been meticulously maintained, has shown cracking and other signs of structural vulnerability since its construction. If we embrace green design wholeheartedly, recognizing both the limitations of man-made constructions and the power of natural forces, then this is one possible outcome.