This combination of high-tech and hands-on making would be repeated over and over in the process of designing, curating and fitting out the wing — NYT
Last month Alexandra Lange reviewed the Corning Museum of Glass’s new 100,000-square-foot Contemporary Art + Design Wing, by Thomas Phifer and Partners.
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Nice, but certainly not an invention, the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion was done in 2006 by Tokyo-based SANAA, Ltd.
Carrera, come on, hardly similar, other than the use of glass. The interiors make it nearly impossible to photograph.
B3tadine - Didn't say they were "similar" just that the NYT article made it sound like a glass walled museum was an "invention" - getting his inspiration from an Aalto vase…not being critical, like the opaque…the Toledo version is different in that it was placed in a cherished park with an historic neighborhood as its backdrop….building needed to be invisible which had more to do with the use of glass than the exhibit topic….it is poorly photographed, totally missing its context.
Is this a review or a report? I think the NYTimes already has one bad architecture critic....
Carrera, I wasn't thinking "literal". I don't think Lange was thinking "inventive" either, however the glass, and the treatment of the glass and space is rather inventive.
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