"Swoopy?" The thing looks like whoever designed it took a *lot* of LSD in
the '60s!
It's also interesting that just about the time the Experience Music Project
appeared, "The Blob" was demolished! For those not familiar with Seattle,
"The Blob" was an amorphous mass of poured stucco occupying an entire city
block and purporting to be a building. It changed hands many times, and
was finally razed. The two sites are on opposite edges of Seattle
Center. Many have commented that the EMP and "The Blob" had a similar
curvaceous godawfulness.
OM content: I have not used my Zuikos to photograph either building.
--Peter Klein
Seattle, WA
At 01:01 AM 02/23/2001 +0000, Doggre wrote:
Somebody mentioned the Frank Gehry designed Bilbao museum in Spain. If you
think that's different, look what we're trying to get used to in Seattle,
also designed by Gehry. I haven't found the extra $20 to visit it yet. Cost
something on the order of $240 million, designed with CATIA (Boeing's
software for aircraft design). Paul Allen, Bill Gates' original partner in
Microsoft, told Gehry to "make it swoopy":
<A HREF="http://www.speakeasy.org/~docschlk/emp.htm";>Click here: Experience
Music Project, Seattle</A>
if that doesn't work, try this:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~docschlk/emp.htm
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