There are some interesting things in that building:
Unfortunately a bunch of it is taken up with the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, a building which requires careful navigation:
Handy guardrails keep the building from splitting your skull. It remains to be understood how the building feeds itself in the absence of BRAINZ.
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How did that meet the accessible path requirements of the International Building Code?
I guess when you are a Starchitect, you get Special Exemptions.
It was all right when they built it. It has "settled" a bit is all
You can't have art when you have to worry about "function" and "people" and that kind of riff-raff.
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Good Art hurts.
Did you get to see the Bird Room? Man, that place is creepy. And the giant turtle/dinosaur thing?
I still like the Crystal, no matter how gimmicky it is. Also the OCAD building. Both designs I had serious reservations about before they were built - but now that they are real, they're pretty cool.
Senor Wangchuck makes a good point, one that cannot be emphasized enough. Real stuff is almost always cooler than imaginary stuff, if only because you can actually show it to other people...
W/V has a problem with immigration, and when I referred to DKW as 'Senor', he felt compelled to correct me: mistr
We only had an hour-and-a-half...missed the bulk of the museum.
I haven't been inside the OCAD building, so I don't have a particular beef there. The Crystal is just dumb, requiring much wasted space in a building that's supposed to hold lotsa stuff.
I imagine it makes a lotta money on movie shoots though.
The OCAD building makes me feel like I didn't do enough drugs in the eighties.
The OCAD building makes me feel like I didn't do enough drugs in the eighties.
I know not of this OCAD but it would be a rare building indeed if it made me feel this way. I'm quite satisfied that I fulfilled my quota and then some.
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