moni Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Interesting Museum Designs: http://cityguides.msn.com/citylife/slidesh...umentid=5460239 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 ghery's work is obvious. i hadn't heard of polshek (?). i thought the herzog & de meuron was zaha hadid. also, i didn't recognize the calatrava. after i read the name, i figured i should've known. i recognized taniguchi right away.as much as i appreciate the architecture of our museums and theaters, i covet some of these buildings for our town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I've been to six of the 11. They're all very beautiful, but also very intimidating. I find something welcoming about the old kind of museum with stone columns and such. These new ones just don't feel friendly to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 that's interesting. i can see where these structures are intimidating; however, the beauty of each structure overwhelms me. i'm fascinated by the extreme nature of the engineering necessary to build these structures. yet, i see what you mean editor. the accessibility of an older stone/cement building seems more human. but, i wonder if the greeks or romans felt intimidated by their temples or public spaces? perhaps these modern buildings will seem human to the next generation. the fact that they are "inhuman" or futuristic is a part of what overwhelms me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojeaux131 Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 I thought the article was lame. The headline implied new but the author trotted out Milwaukee and something else from like, 2000. Not new. There was also something about the `new cultural capitals`. Is this supposed to apply to cities like Akron, Ohio or buildings like Gehry`s Disney Center in LA? IMHO, it should apply to neither. Tacky naming rights aside, the more Gehry produces wavy, titanium clones, the less cool the new ones are. The old one in Minneapolis (Weisman Center, 1990)? Very cool. Had the privilege of seeing it myself close up. Bilbao? Pretty much universally adored. But I wonder if the wavy titanium recipe is gathering dust. Also, the Pritzker Pavilion is not a museum...By the way, if it`s not titanium, I`m sorry. The article said stainless steel, but then again, the article said it was stainless steel.I thought Minneapolis `won` in the slideshow, but Libeskind`s was probably my favorite. Pity about him losing the Freedom Tower deal. Per Bachanon`s post, didn`t Hadid do a great museum in Cleveland? Since the article included Calatrava`s Milwaukee Wing (?) and the Rose Center, it could have included Hadid`s as well. Guess it wasn`t new enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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