US: Seattle, WA – Architecture of Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture
By glenda. Filed in Architecture, Drive I-95, Exhibition, Family Fun, Museum, Seattle, Travel, United States, USA, Walking Tour, Washington State |
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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