Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.

ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

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S.R. Crown Hall, 1956
Illinois Institute of Technology
Mies van der Rohe, architect
(plus my impromptu homage to Calder)

Glass Pavilion
SANAA, architects

This pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art houses its glass collection. The glass walls dissolve and become immaterial but they are also often reflective, distorting or obscuring the views, making the glassed-in spaces, paradoxically, labyrinthian.

Park Synagogue
Cleveland, OH
Erich Mendelsohn
One of four synagogues Mendelsohn completed in America, only the south wing (with the dome) was completed in his lifetime, in 1950. The north wing and bridge over the ravine, were later.
The building is sadly now abandoned.
#architecture
#erichmendelsohn

Saint Francis de Sales Church
1964–1967
Muskegon, MI
Marcel Breuer, architect

#marcelbreuer
#brutalist
#brutalism

Saint Francis de Sales Church
1964–1967
Muskegon, MI
Marcel Breuer, architect

#marcelbreuer
#brutalist
#brutalism

Veterans’ Glass City Skyway
Toledo, OH
(the southern approach, in reverse order)

Opened in 2007, the bridge spans the Maumee River and has a single pylon suspending six lanes of traffic. The suspended sections stretch north and south of the pylon by 200m on each side. Toledo, OH, is the Glass City.