June 8 Monday
we paid the deposit on the cruise in September with Sage Traveling---escorted wheelchair cruise. One week, Sept 11 fly, arrive 12th in Barcelona, hotel one night, board ship the 13th, fly home the 20th.
Tuesday June 9 Slated to go to Polly's late this morning. Gorgeous day again, feels cold! like mid-August, even early September.
sent around quotes via Dezeen in which the O Center architect talks about the emotional quality of the granite cladding on the weird building --
to Phil
I sent that quote about granite and the Obama Center to a small
chain of about ten people via bcc.
Got your response and a few others. BUT the whole set of emails is
now no longer to be found in my google email site!!!!!
Most curious! is that ultra tight security being thrown around the whole
opening of the thing, even to commentary on it architecture?
Anyway---I though the comment about emotional granite was hilarious,
ludicrous. Since we live in the Granite State I sent it to a bunch of people
here.
I can't decide about the look of the thing. As you say it has Brutalist heritage
written all over it (but look up the LBJ version in Austin, a real monster of a
thing trying to be Paul Rudolph's terrible boston city hall all over again).
It seems both monumental wannabe and sort of silly---Klingon Prison the
UK Guardian critic called it. Chicago is the Grey City and the UC campus
next door continues that motif, so this building might wear well and
settle into the South Shore iconography in time as landscaping softens it
and time ages how we look at it.
I can see how they were trying for a sculptural look and sense but some
more glass would have helped open it up and would have been in line with
some of Chicago's really great glass towers along the lakeshore.
Amateur, pop psychoanalytically you can't help thinking, though, boy Obama
was up tighter and more defensive-aggressive than I had ever realized!! Wonder how he really is on the basketball court?
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