For me, The "Liberty" signage on the Seattle Art Museum, expresses the freedom of well-heeled developers to build this citadel of a building that refuses to engage the sidewalk at street level (you can't see it here but it's just a solid wall and an outlet for overpriced chocolate).
Despite this fact, the building itself is growing on me. I like the color, the glass, and the height. It has a tactile quality that makes me want to touch it.
Click here for other/older thoughts and an exchange with Charles Mudede.
2 comments:
Um, its a Four Seasons--it shouldn't engage any of the rabble carousing near it on the sidewalk. If you want to go inside, have your limo drop you off; otherwise, all you street urchins and vagabonds patronizing The Lusty Lady, please stay out.
Funny thing I've heard about The Lusty Lady: originally the developers wanted it gone but once they refused to go (or whatever exactly happened) the developers and architects started saying it should stay, to keep a "vibrant and diverse urban fabric..."
But, wait, the front door of the Four Seasons is around the corner, on Union, out of sight from the 'Lady. Another example of the building staying disconnected from (awesomeness, so I hear) reality.
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