So Long, Guggenheim Las Vegas

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  05.13.08 | 6:22 PM ET

Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne bids farewell to the Rem Koolhaas-designed Guggenheim Museum, which closed Sunday. “Like a lot of Las Vegas marriages,” he writes, “the one between the Venetian Hotel and the Guggenheim Museum was born of some seriously misplaced optimism.”



2 Comments for So Long, Guggenheim Las Vegas

Aaron Phillips 05.14.08 | 10:52 AM ET

Las Vegas, like many other places, is driven by money and the potential for making money. If a person or an attraction can no longer bring in the money evolution kicks in and they become the dodo.

TambourineMan 05.14.08 | 8:15 PM ET

First the LV Hooters, and now this?
You’re dead to me, Vegas…dead.

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