Question

Escalating building costs, blueprints that perplexed city officials, difficulties in finding a site, a curator who tried to sabotage the design, protest petitions by artists, 16 years from conception to completion in 1959. What building and architect endured this list of problems? One last clue: New York City.

Answer

The Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright. The artists complained about a "callous disregard" for the "rectilinear frame of reference."