#icehenge

[zegalba]

Frank Gehry: Icehenge (2013)

[gregdotorg]

A review of Google Streetview shows that at some point after Sept 2017, the Inland Steel Building in Chicago installed curtains that blocked the view of the iconically transparent lobby, Richard Lippold's lobby art, Frank Gehry's cast glass jumble of a security desk—and the computer screens of the security guards playing Cowcatcher there all day.

images: google streetview details of the lobby of chicago's inland steel building by skidmore owings & merrill, with curtains (c. 2022) and without (c. 2017).

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Currently Reading

[mooneyedandglowing]

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

Kim Stanley Robinson, from Icehenge

[pulpscifi]

[all-you-read-is-love]

“And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.”

― Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge

[all-you-read-is-love]

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

― Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge

[ksraday]

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge