then Daniel Libeskind.
Amazing I drove right up and parked. My initial reaction was it was kind of small, in that space. Then thought it looked like a something fallen upside down, of course I'm writing this in Kansas.
I took these remarks from the DAM website:
The Hamilton Building's design recalls the peaks of the Rocky Mountains and geometric rock crystals found in the foothills near Denver. "I was inspired by the light and the geology of the Rockies, but most of all by the wide-open faces of the people of Denver," says Libeskind. The building is covered in 9,000 titanium panels that reflect the Colorado sunshine.
Strange remarks wouldn't you say?
This view of the Michael Graves buildings now look a bit like a fake something in Las Vegas. The Bourgeois sculpture seems the necessary museum pendant, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City has one too.
These are all pretty interesting spaces, for themselves but nothing surprising to me by now, the Zaha Hadid in Cincinatti is almost the same. A little better done.
But I have never understood how it is that architects get away with so much more than artists, there are really alot of designy details--like these little circles with numbers in them? A countdown to it's own deconstruction?
It seemed the construction was a bit casual. Many details still not worked out.
Any way it's not my idea of how a museum should be built. I wondered, could you imagine something like this at the World Trade Center Site?
There's a nice Terry Winters and a Sean Scully, which didn't hit me then. They would look better on more substantial walls. Those paintings are more about a kind of permanence which this museum lacks.
There are alot of children here and things to attract them, little kiosks meant to lure them in ways a painting won't?
I would have taken a picture of a great Clifford Still, they had it in an little show showcasing the new Still Museum that will be in that complex. But that was not allowed, besides it seemed Still would be shuddering, as his picture, as you walk in, is suspended by wires in front of a jutting wall.
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Libeskind is the ultimate middle-brow architect, appealing to first-year novice architecture students and wannabe-intellectuals. But his pretentious designs do not stand up to serious criticism. Even Libeskind's own family did not want to live in his dumb-ass designs. They hired Alexander Gorlin (google it - you'll see), to design the Libeskind apartment in New York, practically across the street from the idiot's own office!!! As if any more proof were needed that Libeskind is the biggest jackass that ever sucked air!
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