#milwaukee architecture

[archi-playground]

Harley-Davidson Park | Milwaukee | Heatherwick Studio | Devisual

[thearchitecturalsite]

Eero Saarinen, War Memorial Center, Milwaukee 1952-57. 'Eero Saarinen’s innovative design for the War Memorial Center was influenced by the abstract geometry of modern French architect Le Corbusier. Saarinen incorporated many of Le Corbusier’s ideas: lifting the bulk of a building off the ground on reinforced columns; eliminating load-bearing walls to allow a freeform façade and open floor plan; and using plazas, courtyards, and rooftop terraces to allow an interaction between internal and external spaces. The building, a concrete, steel, and glass cruciform floating on a pedestal, included three major components, as Saarinen described: “One is the base, which builds the mass up to the city level and contains an art museum; the second, on the city level, is the memorial court with a pool…. The court is surrounded by the polyhedron-shaped piers, which support the building and also make frames for the breathtaking views of the lake and sky. The third part is the superstructure, cantilevered outward thirty feet in three directions, which contains the meeting halls and offices of the veterans’ organizations.” More: Milwaukee Art Museum. Photographer Peter Alfred Hess. Flickr 

[kaelula-sungwis]

End of sunrise at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Jeff Barry Via Flickr: I have a photo very similar to this taken five minutes before. The light in that photo takes on a more pink-ish hue rather than the oranges and yellows here. Anyway, blessed with great light and great clouds this morning, for sure.