Quote:
Originally Posted by BobbyMucho
Hahaha
Were you expecting the Chinatown kitsch treatment—with Aztec artwork and Jaguar statues?
Regardless, I hope the Mexican Museum actually makes this it’s home. Perfect location.
|
No. Actually, I was partial to the original design by Ricardo Legoretta who is actually Mexican (and winner of numerous architecture prizes)--call him and his work "Chinatown kitsch" if you like, I'm sure he won't care. But that had to be abandoned because it was a free-standing museum, not the base of a high rise.
Unlike you, I won't second guess a Mexican architect about what is Mexican. But this design is by Americans who don't seem to have tried to evoke Mexico is any discernible way. That's because it's an American development with a Museum on its lower floors as a sop to the San Francisco development process that it needed to toss in order to get approved. Neither the designers nor the developer seemed to care about Mexico.
Perhaps I'm wrong about that, though, so if they have an explanation of how the screen relates to what's inside it, I'd love to hear it. I think there should be a connection. As things are, the only way anyone passing will know it's a Mexican Museum is because I expect there will be a sign saying so.
And hahaha right back atcha.