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