We'll have to let the crowds thin out some before we trek down there.
I think this is so cool looking. I wonder if the builder asked the architect half way through the project, "Where's the escalator?", and he replied, "Gee, I dunno.....just strap it there to the outside somewhere." Haha!
Most of the couple hundred million dollar price tag was covered by Ross Perot's kids, the museum being a tribute to their dad. (They probably brown-bagged it for a week and donated their lunch money.) That's Daddy Ross third from the left.
He's never been photographed wearing anything besides a dark suit, white dress shirt and tie. For once I'd love to see him wear something else, like maybe a Hawaiian print shirt or some sweats.
The museum will fit in well with some of Dallas' other "unusual" architectural features....
As someone who appreciates eclectic architecture there is one other building that has always intrigued me that I wish was here....
The "Twisted Torso" in Malmo, Sweden. I wonder which came first, this or the Rubik's Cube?
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I saw in the news this morning that more banks are agreeing to pay fines to the Gubment for their wrongdoing and more bankers are under investigation for various illegal acts, too. But here's what gets me: Instead of being banished to some far-off place in disgrace, these crooks just leave the firm where they were caught and move down the street to another bank and given an even better position and more money. These banks just play musical chairs with their top felons. Whoever said "crime doesn't pay" obviously wasn't a banker.
Another Monday. Let the games begin. ;)
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That is a weird looking building. Really instead of an elevator they should have those vacuum tubes like banks use so everyone could experience the giant sucking sound.
ReplyDeleteVery cool buildings.
ReplyDeleteRoss Perot is famous for helping Bill CLinton get elected by deviding the conservative vote in 1992...also not so well known for saving the country from a complete collapse of Wall Street and a great depression, when in 1970 he stepped in and bought the failing firm of EI Dupont, which was a requirement for Merrill Lynch to step in and save the failing firm of Goodbody and CO. Those two firms were the #2 and #3 largest firms on the street, if they failed there would have been a "run on Wall Street." He did this at great personal risk and was never given proper credit for his economic patriotism! A true unsung American Hero!
Also, on Wall Street if you f*ck up really big, it is somehow a plus in the eyes of other firms...always been a pet peeve of mine.
ReplyDelete"Wow...you lost $20,000,000 on one trade? You must be relly talanted! We have got to hire you"
Go figure!
You're absolutely correct, Joe. He's a very smart, very driven, very gutsy, very patriotic man. He's done a lot of good in his lifetime. And yes, he also split the conservative vote back in '92.
ReplyDeletePT...love the Perot "sucking" reference. Good one! ;)
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My dad voted for Perot - which is why it makes me smile really big to see his name painted on the side of a barn I pass every day (Perot's name, not my dad's - ha!).
ReplyDeleteYou know, in executive world that's just how things operate. At my own company people get fired & then snapped right up by other companies in the same line of business. It's a small world, no matter what industry you're in.
I'm a sucker for cool-looking buildings. We have one in Tampa that's round, affectionately called "the beer can."
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