National Building Museum: Cityscapes Revealed : Highlights from the Collection
The National Building Museum presents a first-time survey of its holdings in the long-term exhibition Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection.
Cityscapes Revealed explores America's architectural heritage through original building fragments; rare, early-20th-century photographs; intricate architectural drawings; and more.
The exhibition reflects the Museum's rich permanent collection relating to quintessentially American, 20th-century- building typologies, from Beaux-Arts-style residences to main street storefronts and sleek downtown skyscrapers.
The exhibition, presented in honor of the Museum's 25th anniversary, is on view in first-floor galleries.
The broad main thoroughfare, running southeast from the square called Terazije, bears the name Marshal Tito Boulevard and is a very lively artery lined with fine shops, office buildings and cafes, these latter being allotted generous sidewalk space in the manner of Paris or Vienna. Among con¬spicuous modern structures are the Parliament Building, the National Museum (with very rich ancient and modern collections), the big National Theater and exactly one modern skyscraper, the 12-story Albania Building, which serves as a landmark for tourists learning their way about.See Also Unexploited Building Type:The West German pavilion at Expo 67 ex¬plored the principle of cable-supported tent structures and thereby opened up an untapped, unexploited building type, which will have an inevitable influence on future design and con¬struction. Although the tent is as old as recorded history, the West German building marked one of the first times it has been built with modern materials and construction methods.
The Heinz Architectural Center's first exhibition to focus on a single vernacular building type, Barns of Western Pennsylvania: Vernacular to Spectacular presents a wide variety of objects to reveal the complexity of a deceptively straightforward building form.
On The Other Hand See De¬signing The Building:One of the unusual techniques used in de¬signing the building was the assistance of high¬speed digital computers. Computer analyses were made for the weight of the structure itself, the wind pressure on the faces, and the maxi¬mum deflection of the top of the building. Under the estimated wind pressure the deflection was computed to be approximately one foot. The deflections, even those caused by wind gusts, are expected to be below the level of human perception.
Other studios found their influences in Japanese gardens, the building's views of downtown Cincinnati, and traditional home comfort.
Libeskind wasn't present, but his interior-design suggestions for the building also were displayed.
The star of the day, designers seemed to agree, was the proposed crescent-shaped building itself.
The Basement excavation now complete; it is to open in September 2007.
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