The building is alluring but unsettling. Is the museum’s 10-story concrete cube splitting apart or being pieced together? Is it being held intact by an enormous brace — a transparent protrusion on the cube’s side containing a 54-foot-long escalator — or is that a destabilizing gash that pierces the building’s body? — NYT
Edward Rothstein visited the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and while his review focuses on the contents of the building, he also touches on it's architecture. Rothstein argues that the museum is an example of a not so recent trend wherein science museums as Wunderkammer (their goal being simply to present a collections of objects) have been replaced by science museums as “science center" (which is less about objects and more about advocacy).
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Maybe it's just bad photographs, but it's a bit bland, I'm not impressed.
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