The 72 steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art may well rank among the most famous stairways of the past century.
Charged by a sweaty Sly Stallone in the 1976 hit Rocky, this majestic ascent has long inspired visitors to make the climb to the hilltop 1928 landmark, an assemblage of Greek-temple forms in golden-hued limestone.
But today it’s the building’s opposite side that is capturing the public’s imagination. Unveiled on May 7, 2021, the West entrance now ushers visitors through a sequence of spaces deftly reimagined by architect Frank Gehry.
Read more courtesy of ArchitecturalDigest.com
*You’ve got to bumble forward into the unknown. (Frank Gehry)
