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Comments about building museumThere are 31 comments about "building museum"
Michelle: The first building is the centre block of Canadian Parliament. After that is the Peace Tower. The flowy green-domed ones are the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Apparently the design of the musuem "is supposed to...... EvilGentleman: Thanks, little ukraine and Peter. My family was indeed part of the Mohawk ironworking community.
I went to the museum in my hometown of Kahnawake with my grandmother one time, and there was a good-sized display...... Edward: Better area? There should be a picture of the other side of the building or even across the street (http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/Eastern%20Parkway.jpg)
This school is near the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
The barbed wire is to...... Evinrude: Alfred. Again you stated over again what has been brought up before. If you have looked through the site you will see that old bastards like yourself enjoy the same things, the comsmosphere, NJCAA,...... Alfred: I live in Hutchinson, and I knew this article was pure propaganda right when I saw the photos. The first photo is of an entrance gate to the State Fairgrounds, which the author describes as...... Bob: The Hutchinson, KS haters amuse me. I'm sure some of them have lived in other cities, some have attested to it in their diatribes. However it seems that they are either young or...... Been there,done that: Yes, Hutch used to be a fun and wonderful place to grow up in. But the key word here is "used to be." The only good thing going for this pathetic town as far as...... Yeah I live in Hutch, so what.: Quoted earlier: I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special".
I can't name ten traits about ANY town that make it special, but to...... La: I happen to love Hutchinson.It may not be the prettiest, but the photos you show are from the very worst building in town. Yes we have attractions, a world renowned space museum, the underground salt...... procyon: I don't care too much for his buildings, the one we have here in Chicago being among a few exceptions; the fact that it's a bandshell rather than a museum, classroom building, etc. gives it...... HoracesShark: Is the car still there? I heard that the museum had closed and wanted to visit it because of the car on the building. Please tell me they arent planning on taking it down!... K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with...... WhereAmI?: In the picture W7, you're looking north over the Cambie Street Bridge at the Downtown core. The big white bubble on the far right is BC Place Stadium, where the BC Lions football team plays....... murphy: I grew up in Turner Towers in the mid fifties. It was wonderful...with a doorman and a switch board operator. The hallways always smelled like "cooking"...and the elevator operators were warm and friendly!~...... Erin: Earlier last year someone mentioned that nothing like this cathedral would be allowed in the US. There is a gentilman just outside Castelrock, CO who is building a castle with a working drawbridge, moat, and...... Daniel: Can the guy who posted the photo from the top of his building looking east from NDG post one looking west?
There's a great photo from the same area from 1925 on the McCord Museum's website.
I...... Laura: My mother lived in a large apartment building on Eastern Parkway near Grand Army Plaza in the early 1970s. What a place it must have been in its heyday. It still had touches of grandeur...... colavitos ghost: i think it's awesome to see the word "prominent" misspelled in two different ways on the same day.
also:"questionable"? come on jon---im pei, like him or not, is one of the most important (and recognizable)...... David: I always make sure to show visitors the Gehry building. It may not be as prominant as Chicago's, but the museums and the garden are a pretty big tourist draw. There aren't...... laanba: You can actually go into the building. They have converted one half of the building into a museum. The other half you can go into on special occassions such as I did for...... aer suzuki: for the time of year it depends on what kind of weather you like. if you like having a huge grey smear hanging above your head for a sky (which i do, mostly, perversely) and...... EvilGentleman: Excerpt from http://www.westmountexaminer.com/article-24092-Council-ends-sixyear-sale-of-Fire-Station-No-2.html (the webpage no longer exists, I retrieved the data from a Google cache)
##The sale of the Fire Station No 2 building at Victoria and The Boulevard for $800,000 was expected to finally...... EvilGentleman: I find it absolutely incredible that historical stuctures are valued so little in a land where they are so rare. I could understand Europeans not being terribly attached to hundred-year-old buildings, but they also have...... anon (ip68-97-53-138.ok.ok.cox.net): Norman's really not that bad. As far as OK towns are concerned, I do prefer Tulsa, but Norman has a lot more going for it than the pictures you posted. That building is...... Ruairķ: Hi Jamie
Just wondered - what area of london are you from?
I am originally from Lisnaskea but live in London now.
I have had the idea of going round to to your neighbourhood and taking photos of...... joey: wow. you were at the building museum.
a best full moon suggestion; ggp, ghost moon
[[http://www.citynoise.org/article/1496]]... Peter: URBIS... a museum of urban life? cool! just found this: [[http://www.urbis.org.uk]] ... some def cool stuff.
love the {detroit} bridge, too. great paint job. you really got some great shots of the buildings there, too... i...... Peter: yep. thers definitely crap graffiti out there- dont get me wrong- im not trying to make a blanket statement here regarding the fact that good and bad graf exists.
but its when people label potentially...... elaine: also, re context, our history with high rise building is very different from the US version, cheap tower blocks thrown up postwar to house the poorest when homelessness and slum clearance became acute, so we...... elaine: i have been to san francisco, but i didn't make it cross that bridge. i did go the science museum, where they made the whole building into a camera by having a door ajar, that...... nuria: The Guggenheim-Museum in Bilbao tried to forbid fotos from the outside, too. Finally they had to admid that it's imposible to establish a copyright for buildings in public spaces. ...
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