In a message dated 12/15/2006 9:10:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
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Problem wld be getting anyone w/ an existing TM facade to let you do 
that... and it could stick out like those scaffold puts too. 
No, no, I mean a NEW building made up of different marbles, stone, etc., kind 
of a masonry Frank Gehry sort of thing, except reverse, since he likes all 
his materials to be identical.  Like a newly built ... Hagia Sophia, sort of, 
with all sorts of collisions of materials, even styles.  Could be either lots 
and lots of different materials - a stew - or just one or two different 
materials (Georgia Tuckahoe e.g.) - a control experiment.  

Now that kind of thing would make me want to be an architect.  

Anyone seen Gehry's new "Sail" building on the West Side Highway around 20th 
Street?  It's an undulating wall of milky translucent glass panels, but sort 
of collapsing in on itself, as if it was a partly melted plastic box.  James 
Gardner savaged it in The New York Sun because it didn't have an identifiable 
entrance.

What if Frank Lloyd Wright had left the Guggenheim unpainted, but tinted the 
concrete in gradually changing shades all the way up, say, deep, deep rust 
through bright red through flaming orange through yellow?

Christopher 

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