Comments on: Two Old Dogs’ New Trick (by Eileen Doughty) http://raggedclothcafe.com/2007/12/02/two-old-dogs-new-trick-by-eileen-doughty/ Discussions and ideas about art and textile art Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Olga http://raggedclothcafe.com/2007/12/02/two-old-dogs-new-trick-by-eileen-doughty/#comment-1429 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:50:45 +0000 http://junomain.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/two-old-dogs-new-trick-by-eileen-doughty/#comment-1429 Norman Foster is a great favourite of mine. This roof at the Smithsonian is a version of what he did at the British Museum in London http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/britishmuseum/index.htm ; but I love the reflections in the former. That whole space looks very inviting and exciting.

Foster made a beautiful job of joining two buildings together at the Royal Academy in London (I cannot find online pix), where he kept the exterior of the adjacent building with all its pediments etc. to be seen as one goes up in the glass lift, or climbs the glass stairs to the Sackler Gallery there.

He also used the new/old approach with the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/reichstag/index.htm where he left the original, but build an amazing glass structure where the people can climb up to look down on their representatives at work.

I love the idea of double structures like this. When I lived for a short time in the USA I was determined after seeing a photograph in Arizona Highways magazine to visit the Casa Grande in Arizona http://picasaweb.google.com/wstoll3/GrandCanyonArizona907/photo#5106906236108784690
I was not disappointed. An eclectic approach like this can generate such a buzz.

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