The Guggenheim building in New York has been a central forum for artists and architects to showcase their eccentric designs for years now. For the occasion of the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary, 200 architects, designers and architects have been invited for participating in the upcoming exhibition which will feature the renderings of these visionary projects in a salon-style installation. One of the participating designers is Atelier ted noten and his contribution is the vertical rainbow which is a decorative intervention intended to beautify the museum’s central rotunda. A container fitted at the building’s ceiling will spill out dozed portions of gemstones through a 120” wide liquid curtain falling to the floor.

The stones will then be collected in a transparent container on the ground floor which will be carried upwards with the aid of an aspirator every 5 minutes. The Guggenheim visitors are ought to be amazed by the spectacle of the rainbow colors reflected through the stones and the resonance of falling stones.

[Designboom]