Great for light gathering, but not so portable
A story alerted me to this Santa Monica kitsch/art, with a photo from Wikipedia:
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The winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor, Gehry has won international renown, but always he kept coming home to Los Angeles, where he launched his career with Victor Gruen Associates.
His contributions to Santa Monica and the surrounding areas include Santa Monica Place, the 25-year-old indoor mall Downtown, which has been slated for redevelopment, and the Chiat/Day Office on Main Street in Venice near the Santa Monica border. The building is graced by 45-foot tall-black binoculars designed by artist Claes Oldenburg.
Gehry’s style reflects a distinct Southern Californian flair, which can be traced back to the funky-coastal communities of Venice and Santa Monica he haunts. In his Pritzker acceptance speech in 1989, Gehry compared designing structures to creating sculptures or painting a picture.
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