Spent last weekend in Seattle, the Public Library was one of the hightlights. Amazing, worth the trip from Portland. Roaming the deep red undulations of the Meeting Floor reminded me of hours spend as a kid walking through the giant heart exhibitat the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
OMSI removed the giant heart years ago (!) relocating it outside where it looked small and cheap in the bright outdoors and was subject to vandalism. Someone got the bright idea of modifying it into a sort of jungle gym/slide. A little girl promptly broke her pelvis on it and so that was the end of the heart.
Discovery Place in Charlotte NC has a walk through heart which looks simmilar but smaller but is probably identical. It's hard to tell from small pic though (scroll halfway down) too bad there aren't any interior shots. They also have a walk through eyeball which must be cool.
Those Seattle library shots are really nice--it seems to have a very calm, open, inviting feel (for a Modernist building?).
Right, to me that's what makes the building so remarkable. Its huge, open, densly populated and simultaneously intimate-lots of nooks for reading, writing , staring out at the view etc.
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- steve 4-07-2005 7:28 pm
OMSI removed the giant heart years ago (!) relocating it outside where it looked small and cheap in the bright outdoors and was subject to vandalism. Someone got the bright idea of modifying it into a sort of jungle gym/slide. A little girl promptly broke her pelvis on it and so that was the end of the heart.
Discovery Place in Charlotte NC has a walk through heart which looks simmilar but smaller but is probably identical. It's hard to tell from small pic though (scroll halfway down) too bad there aren't any interior shots. They also have a walk through eyeball which must be cool.
- steve 4-07-2005 7:41 pm [add a comment]
Those Seattle library shots are really nice--it seems to have a very calm, open, inviting feel (for a Modernist building?).
- tom moody 4-07-2005 7:50 pm [add a comment]
Right, to me that's what makes the building so remarkable. Its huge, open, densly populated and simultaneously intimate-lots of nooks for reading, writing , staring out at the view etc.
- steve 4-07-2005 8:46 pm [add a comment]