Archinect - News 2024-04-30T12:27:42-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/83912918/barnes-bad-move-in-philadelphia Barnes' bad move in Philadelphia Orhan Ayyüce 2013-10-11T15:11:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/yn/ynpn14vsqx34s4e4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Now, as just one more downtown tourist site lined up on the Ben Franklin Parkway, the Barnes "presents itself more as a historical artifact in an artificial, and not especially resonant, environment."</p></em><br /><br /><p> Now that the Barnes Foundation has been in its conventional, museum-like new building in downtown Philadelphia for more than a year, one local critic is having second thoughts about the place.</p>