Art Critique

The piece I chose is actually the entire Frederic C. Hamilton building. The building was designed by Daniel Liebskind, a world renowned architect. Construction for the building started in 2003 and the building finally opened in 2006. There are still some parts of the building that need fixing. I chose the entire building because I noticed that it made people feel differently and it's unlike any other building I've ever been in.

When you first approach the building, you instantly notice how there are a lot of points and that the building has an obscure shape. None of the walls, except for fire safety and elevator shafts, have 90 degree angles. The walls are white and the steel beams go from the ground floor, up through other floors and to the ceiling. There are 2,750 steel beams used and roughly 50,000 bolts. The amount of steel used in the building is three times the amount of steel used for buildings that are the same size. Any wall that was not designed by Liebskind is a light yellow color. There are several places in the building where the walls are slanted, making you want to lean with the wall. In a few areas, there are gaps between the wall and the floor and because of the walls slanting, they had to fill them in. It was very interesting to be able to go to the section of the building that actually stretches and points out over the street. I both liked and hated this building. The building made me and a few other people feel like our center of gravity was changed. For me, this didn't really happen until I looked down the atrium and after that my stomach was upset and I had vertigo. I liked this building because it's a very creative and interesting design. It kind of reminded me of something that would belong to some alien race.

The Frederic C. Hamilton Building, designed by Daniel Liebskind, was the most interesting thing on the trip for me. I'd seen the construction of the building when I was younger and only got the chance to go see it this time. Although it made me feel strange, I would definitely love to go inside the building again to see all the parts of it I didn't see before.