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Doorstop wrote:Putting your city on the map with pretty boxes that hold no substance, and which subsequently leave the people who travel to see said contents of boxes disappointed seems to defeat the purpose, in my less than educated opinion.
The remit was surely for a transport museum that looks pretty, not for a shiny thing that could be used to hold a transport museum?
RDR wrote:Doorstop wrote:Putting your city on the map with pretty boxes that hold no substance, and which subsequently leave the people who travel to see said contents of boxes disappointed seems to defeat the purpose, in my less than educated opinion.
The remit was surely for a transport museum that looks pretty, not for a shiny thing that could be used to hold a transport museum?
Absolutely and fundementally right in my equally uneducated view.
Doorstop wrote:The remit was surely for a transport museum that looks pretty, not for a shiny thing that could be used to hold a transport museum?
The Egg Man wrote:OK. On a serious note (not that Lanza isn't serious). Why pay top dollar for a shed, a warehouse?
Aren't the exhibits what matter, the box just a shell to keep the rain out?
Josef wrote:You don't hire Zahid to design a functional building. Any competent architect can do that for a fraction of the price. You hire her to make A Statement, and put your city on the map.
The transport museum used to occupy the interior is neither here nor there.
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