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.
How did that meet the accessible path requirements of the International Building Code?
ReplyDeleteI 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
ReplyDeleteYou 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.
ReplyDeleteDid you get to see the Bird Room? Man, that place is creepy. And the giant turtle/dinosaur thing?
ReplyDeleteI 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...
ReplyDeleteW/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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteThe OCAD building makes me feel like I didn't do enough drugs in the eighties.
ReplyDeleteI 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.