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    Default Ehh Renedering of Revolutionary War Museum in Ind Mall

    Ehh Rendering for new Revolutionary War Museum


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    FTFY.
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    It stinks.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailaway View Post


    FTFY.
    Thanks

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

    So here goes FTFM

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    Quote Originally Posted by seand View Post
    The nod to brick Georgian architecture is so barely there you sort of wonder why they bothered.
    More of a shrug than a nod.

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    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.
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    Don't give them ideas..but seriously, it'll be a statue....
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    Quote Originally Posted by mixiboi View Post
    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%.

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

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    Looks like a chintzy replica of Independence Hall. Barf.

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    Its not on the mall.
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    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.

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    Hopefully it brings life to that corner of old city...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dayman View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by mixiboi View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dayman View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thoth View Post
    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!

 

 

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