when: Friday where: Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millenium Park what: the experience would have been so much better without that little white shed bothering me
Eugene has a pretty nifty federal courthouse. It's interesting on the outside (though some locals call it the Tuna Can) http://www.glumac.com/images/newsletter/Wayne_L._Morse_Courthouse_large.jpg
And gorgeous on the inside: http://www.architectmagazine.com/Images/0809%20Courthouse%20Eugene%20stair_tcm20-189325.jpg and http://www.architectmagazine.com/Images/0809%20Courthouse%20Eugene%20Courtroom_tcm20-189309.jpg
BUT... On the western facade, there is a small window. It really bugs me. And, as I recently discovered at a gettogether, it offends a lot of people. http://k43.pbase.com/o4/66/444766/1/66917805.3fT5hlPM.D2x20060914_099a.jpg
The thing is, too, the shot that I took is a pretty popularly photographed view of the structure. WHY would they put something so insignificant there without more thought?
In the eighties, I was a little kid who put together model buildings out of notebook paper and Scotch tape and spent days on end playing Monopoly with my best friend. What I've done over the last decade is pretty much the same thing. I began buying, renovating, and renting dozens of properties during Architecture school, where I mostly learned how to stay awake for six days straight.
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Eugene has a pretty nifty federal courthouse. It's interesting on the outside (though some locals call it the Tuna Can) http://www.glumac.com/images/newsletter/Wayne_L._Morse_Courthouse_large.jpg
And gorgeous on the inside: http://www.architectmagazine.com/Images/0809%20Courthouse%20Eugene%20stair_tcm20-189325.jpg
and
http://www.architectmagazine.com/Images/0809%20Courthouse%20Eugene%20Courtroom_tcm20-189309.jpg
BUT...
On the western facade, there is a small window. It really bugs me. And, as I recently discovered at a gettogether, it offends a lot of people.
http://k43.pbase.com/o4/66/444766/1/66917805.3fT5hlPM.D2x20060914_099a.jpg
Maybe we're all nuts.
That white shed is pretty annoying! x
The thing is, too, the shot that I took is a pretty popularly photographed view of the structure. WHY would they put something so insignificant there without more thought?
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