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Architecture doesn’t always spill out onto the roadway. Here’s a place in modernistic Seattle where it includes the road.

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Architect Frank Gehry’s signature metallic swoops and swirls allow for great sculptural photographs of the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.

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When architect Frank Gehry designs a building, it’s more than a building, it’s a sculpture. Here in Seattle, the Museum of Pop Culture certainly stands out in the city.

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The fantastical sheet metal walls of MoPop were designed by Frank Gehry. It is often quoted as looking like a smashed electric guitar. Gehry himself had made the comparison, “We started collecting pictures of Stratocasters, bringing in guitar bodies, drawing on those shapes in developing our ideas.”

Despite some critical reviews of the structure, the building has been called “a fitting backdrop for the world’s largest collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia.” The outside of the building which features a fusion of textures and colors, including gold, silver, deep red, blue and a “shimmering purple haze,” has been declared “an apt representation of the American rock experience.

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Macchia Forest was created when Dale Chihuly noticed that stained glass windows look better on cloudy days. He developed a method of placing a thin white cloud between the glass colors to achieve a more vibrant effect.

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How cool is this little study area inside the architecturally stunning Seattle Public Library.

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Even the rides on the escalators inside the Seattle Public Library have artistically beautiful views.

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Geometrically fun squared looking at the sky from inside the Seattle Public Library.

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Yes it rains a lot in Seattle so why not an umbrella sculpture?

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That first glimpse of the Space Needle is always exciting when you are driving in to Seattle.

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