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Aren't the blinds there as part of some green energy-reducing feature? I think they look pretty cool, in a functional way.And I hate the blinds on University, they contribute to the aloof feeling.
Aren't the blinds there as part of some green energy-reducing feature? I think they look pretty cool, in a functional way.And I hate the blinds on University, they contribute to the aloof feeling.
I might be in the distinct minority, but I love the Opera House. It has a warm, gracious interior, an austere but sensible interior and excellent acoustics and seating/sight lines.
I actually have trouble thinking of a better one anywhere (that I've visited at least). Paris is ghastly rococo twaddle, New York is twinkly motel glitter and Albert Hall in London, while not an opera venue, is one of the world's most poorly designed public buildings in terms of function, right up there with Wright's beautiful but perverse Guggenheim Museum.
Aren't the blinds there as part of some green energy-reducing feature? I think they look pretty cool, in a functional way.
I might be in the distinct minority, but I love the Opera House. It has a warm, gracious interior, an austere but sensible interior and excellent acoustics and seating/sight lines.
I actually have trouble thinking of a better one anywhere (that I've visited at least). Paris is ghastly rococo twaddle, New York is twinkly motel glitter and Albert Hall in London, while not an opera venue, is one of the world's most poorly designed public buildings in terms of function, right up there with Wright's beautiful but perverse Guggenheim Museum.
I actually have trouble thinking of a better one anywhere (that I've visited at least). Paris is ghastly rococo twaddle, New York is twinkly motel glitter and Albert Hall in London, while not an opera venue, is one of the world's most poorly designed public buildings in terms of function, right up there with Wright's beautiful but perverse Guggenheim Museum.
You are of course referring to the old Paris opera (the Garnier). As for the new Paris Opera (La Bastille), we took a look at that thing up close and personal a year ago and I found it depressing, inside and out.
You are of course referring to the old Paris opera (the Garnier). As for the new Paris Opera (La Bastille), we took a look at that thing up close and personal a year ago and I found it depressing, inside and out.
Jack Diamond singled out the interior perversity of Wright's Guggenheim last night in his talk at the Central Reference Library - as well as remarking how it breaks up what he termed the "aggregate" established by successful streetwalls; as a fancy shape it might have worked better as a big statement located in the middle of a square. I'm sorry I missed the first half hour of the evening - he's so informative.
The old one is the biggest hunk of junk in the city, and given that it has the Madeline, the Eiffel Tower and the Pantheon for company, that's saying something.
Speaking of the PATH - has the PATH connections that have been shown as "future walkway" on the PATH Map for years opened? I haven't been in the Four Seasons Centre for a while ... gave up Opera for something a bit more cultural - Football (though being able to bring the baby with me to BMO Field had a lot to do with that!).Street Level: Subway/PATH entrance
I actually like that it louses up the streetwall of Fifth Avenue--that stretch is incredibly dreary and ugly and the big swooping shape is a nice surprise. The interior is a marvel, but simply isn't fit to hang a picture in, alas.
The old one is the biggest hunk of junk in the city, and given that it has the Madeline, the Eiffel Tower and the Pantheon for company, that's saying something.
You are of course referring to the old Paris opera (the Garnier). As for the new Paris Opera (La Bastille), we took a look at that thing up close and personal a year ago and I found it depressing, inside and out.