Ehh Renedering of Revolutionary War Museum in Ind Mall

[kidphilly]

Ehh Rendering for new Revolutionary War Museum


I cant get the image to copy so if anyone can help please do



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/ar...?_r=1&src=dayp



Looking For Revolutionary Architecture? You Won’t Find It At The New Museum Of The American Revolution | Hidden City Philadelphia

[Sailaway]

FTFY.

[BarryG]

It stinks.

[seand]

The nod to brick Georgian architecture is so barely there you sort of wonder why they bothered.

[kidphilly]

FTFY.

Thanks

Also seems the link to the Hidden City review didnt work either

So here goes FTFM

Looking For Revolutionary Architecture? You Won’t Find It At The New Museum Of The American Revolution | Hidden City Philadelphia

[dogoagogo]

The nod to brick Georgian architecture is so barely there you sort of wonder why they bothered.

More of a shrug than a nod.

[carloss]

Can't wait to see what they throw out to fulfill the one-percent-for-public-art requirement. My money says it'll be a bunch of ovoid glass balls meant to imitate the ice floes in the Delaware from when Washington made the crossing.

[mixiboi]

Don't give them ideas..but seriously, it'll be a statue....

[BarryG]

Don't give them ideas..but seriously, it'll be a statue....

A traditional sculpture of a person would be such a refreshing use of the 1%.

[MariusPontmercy]

Well... a shrug is better than me vomiting.

[thoth]

I support any plan that involves the slow deconstruction and annihilation of that ****ing bell tower. I would seriously take the day off to watch them dismantle that embarrassing piece of orthogonal dog ****

[kidphilly]

Philadelphia welcomes the Museum of the American Revolution | Philadelphia Real Estate Blog

[BarryG]

Philadelphia welcomes the Museum of the American Revolution | Philadelphia Real Estate Blog

Looks like a chintzy replica of Independence Hall. Barf.

[CHIOSSO]

Its not on the mall.

[Dayman]

I hate most post 1940s architecture but this actually looks decent IMO.

I'd be more concerned with what the actual museum will be. In Europe, history is history, warts and all. You can go to Pompeii and take a walk through the brothels with erotic art. In the US, we venerate our founding fathers. Will there a serious treatment of history? Or rah-rah flag-waving jingoism. We like to impart a nationalism wholly uncharacteristic with the period onto these people.

I'm sure there will be the patriotic claptrap and then a bone thrown regarding the politics and scheming, slavery, and Native Americans and it'll only be worth for fat, American flag shirt wearing midwesterners to feel good about themselves.

[mixiboi]

Hopefully it brings life to that corner of old city...

[phillyaggie]

I hate most post 1940s architecture but this actually looks decent IMO.

I'd be more concerned with what the actual museum will be. In Europe, history is history, warts and all. You can go to Pompeii and take a walk through the brothels with erotic art. In the US, we venerate our founding fathers. Will there a serious treatment of history? Or rah-rah flag-waving jingoism. We like to impart a nationalism wholly uncharacteristic with the period onto these people.

I'm sure there will be the patriotic claptrap and then a bone thrown regarding the politics and scheming, slavery, and Native Americans and it'll only be worth for fat, American flag shirt wearing midwesterners to feel good about themselves.

you hit the spot on that last comment. this, like the other stuff around old city, for the most part is a tourist attraction and a tourist trap, that's what it is meant to be.

you can't really expect Lenfest or anyone else to put up money to show the underbelly of American history, especially when little kids and their parents from all over the country are the primary target audience.




not very revolutionary in its design...rather pedestrian, and tied to old world/old ideas. but Hidden City probably wrote something similar already... hehe

[phillyaggie]

Hopefully it brings life to that corner of old city...

is anything in the works to finally get something in the old Bookbinders building only a block or two east of this place, on Walnut?

that, in combination to this museum, could get some juices flowing in that area. as such, the beautiful Merchants' Exchange building, which could be a hub of activity around there, seems woefully underutilized.

[thoth]

I hate most post 1940s architecture but this actually looks decent IMO.

I'd be more concerned with what the actual museum will be. In Europe, history is history, warts and all. You can go to Pompeii and take a walk through the brothels with erotic art. In the US, we venerate our founding fathers. Will there a serious treatment of history? Or rah-rah flag-waving jingoism. We like to impart a nationalism wholly uncharacteristic with the period onto these people.

I'm sure there will be the patriotic claptrap and then a bone thrown regarding the politics and scheming, slavery, and Native Americans and it'll only be worth for fat, American flag shirt wearing midwesterners to feel good about themselves.

As long as they bolt a bunch of flatscreen TVs to the outside of the building that show looping videos of historical recreationists talking about how awesome the revolution was, I'll be happy.

[Dayman]

As long as they bolt a bunch of flatscreen TVs to the outside of the building that show looping videos of historical recreationists talking about how awesome the revolution was, I'll be happy.

Why not just move the crappy CRT tvs across from the Watermark there instead? % for Art MOTHERF*CKERS!