Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Not to worry. I'll speak to someone right away and see if they can flood the Buddhist temple murals with blazing searchlights so you can see every little detail.
Is that what I took a picture of here?To keep things in perspective, the piece "Joie" at the Top of the Rock has 40,000 pieces of crystal.
Those are the best ROM photos I've seen so far. I'm sure the final product will look great, even if it's not exactly what we were hoping for. The effect of the different panels actually looks cool when viewed at an angle as in the ROM3.jpg pic.
Mind you, even if the little restaurant overhang does fondly remind me of Pyramid Place, and sometimes in brief flashes I think the whole ensemble looks a bit like Darth Vader's school portable...who's counting?
To further add doubts to my view of the Crystal, it seems that other costs saving and/or time pressured measures are being noticed: the plaza in front of the ROM is being poured as simple concrete... no interlocking stones, no stone, no nothing. In fact, what ever happened to the angular lines stripping across the sidewalks on Bloor and Queen's Park as per the VR video on the ROM site?
I love this building so much...! The surfeit .