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Daniel Liebeskind transformed this space while paying homage to it’s former self a power substation has transformed and morphed the space successfully to it’s modernity. While the shell remains and the fanciful yesteryear treats are fully intact the rectangular object is provocative and the materials bring the Four Seasons hovering above and the brick structure building below to a more harmonious old meets best. Liebeskind creates a beautiful statement with the rectangle and disparately placed squared windows to keep the eye moving and while your eye is moving this rectangle become predominate and yet more harmonious.
The interior has considerable harmony and provides plenty of walled space for portraiture and other art works. Inside the rectangle is a place to stop; breathe, everyone in this chamber goes to the windows to view the outside world; as if this were a spacecraft–the windows do little more than let in light; the purpose is not to see everything. The lobby is grand; and the rectangle and sharp angles filled with light also dance the eye from one pattern to the next; this space is a great entry path to the floor above. The gallery space is small but that does not surprise since the footprint on the exterior does not mislead one to thinking there is a larger footprint. It works.
Curatorially there is more of a challenge but there is chambering or compartmentalizing that helps to showcase each exhibit within. I like the visual medias and these spoke and made the word contemporary a cognizant and consistent phrase. The Kabbalah exhibit was interactive by one being able to contribute to the art by allowing input on how one can make the world a better place. This structure adds to the Yerba Buena Gardens art establishment and other architectures. San Francisco has needed more useful architectures and spaces the Contemporary Jewish Museum contributes to a more vibrate, celebratory and diverse art scene.
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Our daily lives are either enriched or even perhaps negatively impacted; most don’t realize the impact of design; urban planning, architecture, civil engineering, economics, graphic, fashion, product, and technology design. This silent hand is remarkable; ushering in ‘new’ trends and reinventing classics. But design is about subtle actions, a gradual change; a gradual notice of change. It is all incremental. Occasionally , we have change that is dramatic and that is something that we all take notice.
Design, successful design, is not only ahead of his time but stays ahead of it’s time. A recognition of it’s brightness. I like design and wish I had the funds to have studied design or architecture; I had entertained applying to a NAG (non-architectural degree program) a master’s program to study architecture. Maybe in another life. Designer, artists and architects I think are sometimes the most idealistic people in our society. Design for efficiency for maximum utility, maximum socialization and a notation for expression.
Design is in our small devices, large cities, tall buildings. Design makes or brakes our perceptions, imagination. That is what my design blog is about. Enjoy.
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