Atrium steel at the Memorial Pavilion.
I really do not like architects.
What's the footprint on that?
Looks kinda small for an indoor atrium.
I believe that this atrium is designed to enclose the two outer columns that were salvaged from Ground Zero (seen in the background partially wrapped up). It's part of the Memorial.
Nonetheless, I'm thinking it could have been more simply designed.
Architects like to make 'statements'.
Maybe you might 'invite' the architect down to a cold corner of the site and hand him a welding torch and ask him to erect the pieces of something to give the architect an appreciation of regular (but boring) angles and lengths of stock.
Your architect is Libeskind who likely never had to maintain or clean his monstrosities !
You can see a similarity of PITA architectural statement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Libeskind
he left in Toronto's ROM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ontario_Museum
Must be OK if you don't have to pay for it !
DGG
Luddite-in-art
Is it to signify twisted metal railing from stair cases?
RADU
> Is it to signify twisted metal railing from stair cases?
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> RADU
Yeah, that sounds good. Let's go with that.
The original plan was a conventional design and got discarded into a wadded-up ball of paper that did not make it into the waste basket. It was inadvertently picked up off of someone else's desk and scanned "as is."
That's how the design made it to the welder's plans.
That's my theory, anyway.
