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[low_delta]

Here are some pictures I took of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Please check 'em out!



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[banana.livejournal.com]

Nice pics. Perhaps the architect saw too much 1950s sci-fi. 8~)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Or eighties. It is very much Star Trek: Next Generation.

[banana.livejournal.com]

Look at these, from the Festival of Britain in 1951:
http://www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk/colour2.jpg
http://www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk/colour4.jpg
http://www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk/skylon.jpg

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Hm. That's pretty good.

[i.livejournal.com]

what a great building!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It is amazing.

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[i.livejournal.com]

is it an I.M. Pei design?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Santiago Calatrava.

[i.livejournal.com]

oooh, he did the NYTimes time capsule design. i knew i had seen the name.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

He is amazing. He combines design elements with engineering like no one else. I mean, who else could have built a curved suspension bridge?

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[i.livejournal.com]

i like the twisted skyscraper design. i can't imagine how the steel would be designed for that.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

I can see it out of my office window...sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down...but I've never seen it moving yet.

[i.livejournal.com]

it moves???!!!

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[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Yes! Like wings....

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[i.livejournal.com]

too cool!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

The "wings" open every day at noon. Notice in the first picture they're down over the windows.

[i.livejournal.com]

beautiful

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Nice job putting those pictures together :)