The Rust Belt is Happening, Baby!

Wow. Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has designed this jewel for Louisville, called Museum Plaza. It's unorthodox and controversial because it's public space is the big horizontal box 22 stories above street level, accessed by the diagonal elevator...also controversial because it vaguely recycles/regurgitates a previous OMA idea, and because plazas not part of the life of the street are notoriously de Chirico-like and void of life. Well, compared to the timid and corporate Museum Tower in Atlanta, which has the newish Atlanta Children's Museum below, this is super imaginative and exciting. Which is what OMA is known for. Click on the title of this post for a really nifty movie explaining a bit about the process, the rationale and presenting the whole effect. Groovy.