Category Archives: travel

Crops from Paris & other

…we walked up one of the staircases to the first viewing platform. I recall writing years ago about the replica tower in LV and how it has tube structure within its lattice work that reduces the amount of negative space pushing through the structure. The decision to go with glass has eliminated the oil canningContinue reading “Crops from Paris & other”

Guggenheim Forensic

I visit the corpse of the Rem Koolhaas designed Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas over the (native american genocide) weekend. This project was originally designed and constructed in 2000-2001, I was a senior professional for the executive architect TSA of Nevada (the Stubbins Associates). The internal partition truss (140′ long, fully clad, both sidesContinue reading “Guggenheim Forensic”