Architect Santiago Calatrava’s building for the Milwaukee Art Museum is one cool building. The sunscreen evoke the wings of a bird about to take flight which is a nice modernist riff on the institutionalization of art. Check out the video below.
Milwuakee Art Museum
by turfgrrl
February 18th, 2008 · 53 Comments
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Thanks TG for this fun diversion. Who knew Milwaukee would become a must-visit city, but there it is. Another new museum is opening this summer-the Harley-Davidson Museum.
20 years ago Milwaukee was written off as a dead city with an abandoned downtown, burned out neighborhoods, and basically beyond hope. With city-backed development projects, including $7 million for the Harley Davidson Museum, and many other projects downtown, the city has witnessed a miraculous recovery. People are moving back by the thousands, tax revenues are up, and the city is fast becoming a destination for visitors from around the world.
Who says redevelopment doesn’t work?
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Who says redevelopment doesn’t work? Jerry Slaske does.
Milwaukee, the city that once billed itself as a great place to raise a family, now has a higher murder rate than Chicago, Los Angeles and New York - cities held up in these parts as cauldrons of crime.In fact, Milwaukee’s murder rate is almost 2.5 times that of New York City.
Obviously there are more stats on where the crime is the worst its where the money is of course along the shore where museum drive is.The travelers wanring for that section of the city is worth reading.
I trust after 20 years Norwalk will be a reworked and we will see our three new police officers and at least one street safe to walk on at night.
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Does the crime nut have to pollute every article?
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How about where the ripe off Gibbs School stands (which will no longer be in 2009) we put a fabulous art museum! The Maritime Aquarium is wonderful but a NEW art museum would be great for Norwalk. Can we get some donations for that?
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Does the crime nut have to pollute every article?Yes it seems its never about the content or the facts. Who says redevelopment doesn’t work? Who says it does? Unless you take care of what we already have first by all means earmark money we don’t have for other things.Your once again giving way too much credit to one blogger.There is no one else in this town that has an opinion on crime is there?
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Of course, but your opinion is so predictably psychopathic and anti-urban that it gets boring.
If anyone says anything positive about Norwalk you respond with a crime statistic, as if that’s the so-called voice of reality. This is on every single post and is why hardly anyone wants to read this blog anymore, and why the response rate has dropped to almost no one except you and yourself.
There are some posts that have only your comments, one after another after another, to the point that we can only induce that you love to hear yourself talk and prefer to talk to yourself. I gave up entries for a few weeks, and gave up reading this blog except once a week, and when I did check in it came down to reading you repeat yourelf with the same negative anti-urban and crime-ridden rant. A neighborhood group wants a park in their neighborhood, and you went off for like 50 pages of ranting of why parks don’t work because they attract crime. Your vision of a city? A park-free dead zone where people are barricaded in their houses to protect themselves from all the wild criminals out there. Sweet!
Of course crime happens in cities. That’s where the people are. Unless you think criminals would want to rob or terrorize cows and chickens.
And redevelopment does work, and is working everywhere except in the cities where the wheels of government can’t keep up with the trend to re-invest private money and bring people out of the energy-gobbling suburbs and back downtown again.
People are hungry to live in cities again after decades of watching the failed expereriment of suburban sprawl kill culture and social life. This unique American pattern is finally reversing itself, and cities are now the attractive alternative to a Mcmansion in the boring burb’s.
And yes, there will be crime in cities. And there will be criminals. And there will be dog poop, and honking horns, and crowds of people, as well as cafe’s, restaurants, community centers, parks, entertainment, and easy public transportation so you may not even need a car. And yes, there will be crime, and criminals. WE GET IT!If you think Norwalk doesn’t need private money to rebuild itself after 5 decades of decline, I have a bridge I can sell you.
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Norwalk will be difficult to redevelop because of mistakes made in the past. Public housing complexes lower the mean incomes and property values, along with a greater demand for educational and public services. Places like Darien, Westport, New Caanan and Wilton were able to maintain less dense populations, maintaining property values at a lesser tax rate. Othing you can do about it now except gradually reduce low income and affordable housing, and the corresponding needs for service. Norwalk will never be a town again, but can try to be more like Stamford in their redevelopment attempts.
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Does the bridge come with security?
We enjoyed your post no matter whom your speaking to you write so well such a shame you wasted it on such a lost vision.
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The shame is this blog has been spoiled with your repetitive and boring entries. Many people I know don’t bother reading this anymore thanks to you. TG tries so hard to make the blog interesting but your rants have ruined it.
Signing off for another few weeks. Don’t have the time to waste.
Talk amongst yourself…
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A park-free dead zone where people are barricaded in their houses to protect themselves from all the wild criminals out there.
that described the lower half of South Norwalk nicely as it is tonight.
easy public transportation so you may not even need a car.
yet each day within a week they have had robberies on the meadow to washington st bus in the middle of the day from cell phones to ipods or on the same streets
So predictably psychopathic and anti-urban that it gets boring or is it the truth that in iteslf is discouraging for those without a vision.
This is on every single post and is why hardly anyone wants to read this blog anymore now that sells papers please don’t leave your material is outstanding.
and why the response rate has dropped to almost no one except you and yourself. Now you have become self serving I never thought that about your post I enjoyed and agreed we need the arts we need the private backing but who buys into complete chaos?
A neighborhood group wants a park in their neighborhood,I was for it but security was the object around the hospital, the armed assault the next day after my post and the continued crime that has effected the entire hill up there was a very big concern of mine we have friends who lost tires on cars with no insurance.This is all real its all sad the way the city has turned almost overnight. Today a woman came out of the hospital today and found her car windows smashed out things missing from the car . If we don’t hear about it how do we protect ourselves from future crime (this was given by cop on today’s shift)
you went off for like 50 pages of ranting of why parks don’t work because they attract crime.Was it Vets park that set you off tonight? What do you want a putt putt?
Flax hill park is closed because of crime Ryan park has a no trespassing ordinance per order of the police dept you call those parks now? The other park on the lower half of woodward is now off limits to kids I bet you have never been there have you? Any one know the name of that one?
redevelopment does work your right it does I wish it would catch on here but whats being built for the city that adds to the quality of life? Where do we see an art gallery, pool or even a new diamond for the kids.Where are the plans for the kids even the adults?
What up with the skating rink in South Norwalk that was written about in the Advocate private money was to be invested , that was for the kids where is it?
we get it too
clean up what we have before we build more maybe thats not the way it works for most cities but this is Norwalk .“Crime, the theory went, was caused by societal problems that were impervious to police intervention,” he wrote. “That was the unchallenged conventional wisdom espoused by academics, sociologists and criminologists. I intended to prove them wrong.”
And he did. ”
That was said by Bill Bratton and to this day he still works at cleaning up the city he is in one day at a time.
maybe its a rant to some its whats out there beyond the screen.
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Architecture fan - Because we don’t read things we should in the papers, some of us come to the blog to read updated information that the newspapers fail to print. What happened to the local news, when will the newspapers start covering what is happening now in Norwalk? Don’t we want to know what the outcome of redevelopment will be if the crime in Norwalk surpasses the good hard work of the developers? What good will redevelopment be if it is riddled with crime? It will be a pretty new face on an old tired body that continues to hide the signs of aging. Kind of like a facelift and the body is shot to hell. Crime in Norwalk has increased and the taxpayers need to know about it. It is our tax dollars that pay for the services or lack thereof. While I agree with you that some of these postings are a bit long and way too wordy to read, at least somewhere in those rants we see things the papers don’t or won’t print. Where did you see any sort of teen center or services and programs for the kids in any of the redevelopment data. Wouldn’t you think that one of the developers would have listened to most of us when we have for so many years asked for a place for these kids to go so they would have structure? But no, lets keep looking from the outside in and how many more people we can attract to Norwalks rising problems.
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Greenpeace wrote: “We enjoyed your post no matter whom your speaking to you write so well such a shame you wasted it on such a lost vision.”
Did you perhaps mean something close to:
“We enjoy your posts no matter to whom you are speaking. You write so well. What a shame you wasted it on such a lost vision.”
Is that close to what you mean, Greenpeace?
I believe NCC is now offering classes that can help you obtain your G.E.D. Perhaps you should focus on writing and grammer classes.
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Now, now. Was that nice? By the way, grammar is spelled with an “a,” not an “e.”
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Never about the facts always about the author I don’t always agree with the postings but no one has ever said the facts are wrong.
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Well, if you really want to get picky, better writing would reframe the sentance to state:
“It doesn’t matter to whom you direct your posts, we enjoy them anyway. You write so well. It is a shame that your efforts are wasted on a vision unlikely to succeed.”
But we are not creating great writing here, folks. Stream of consciousness works as long as it’s honest, seems to me. It’s just the web after all….
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Hmmm…nice piece on the architecture. But did anyone step up to protest when a local architectural gem — the Paul Rudolph house in Westport — was demolished. That, too, was a piece of modernist sculpture. Absolutely incredible. Demolished because the owner wanted something “bigger”. Here’s the photo and story
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/nyregion/14rudolph.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=sloginI hear there’s another significant home (modernist - architet Eero Saarinen, designer of the TWA terminal at JFK) on the market in Norwalk. Will that get destroyed also?
It’s nice to admire things in far off places but you could start thinking about preserving the stuff we have right here at home.
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Maybe the owner doesn’t like it. Make them an offer.
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Now that was interesting about Eero Saarinen indiga seems his carreer was very interesting with my kids home this week bored looked him up what a designer.
We went to the Florence Griswold museum with the kids sunday what a place and the art it draws from the visitors was nice to enjoy . We too have our own gems hidden in the hillsides here where the kids on vacation can go.
Mr G
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I heard Old Lyme is just riddled with crime. They need at least 100 more policeman and one cruiser. When, oh when, will they listen?
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yes, the parking lot at the Griswold has a history of tire slashings and stabbings.
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Well, you know what happens when history and art lovers have time on their hands. They’re a bad lot. Maybe a curfew…
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Old Lyme, CT, violent crime, on a scale from 1 (low crime) to 10, is 1. Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The US average is 3.
Old Lyme, CT, property crime, on a scale from 1 (low) to 10, is 1. Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims. The US average is 3.
nice try kids this the best you can deliver?
Mr G
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Can we please focus on how we stop Norwalk from building Condo’s, duplexes, Multi Family homes, low income housing units and instead build Museums such as the above, which would have a positive impact on the community , schools, and neighboring towns.
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Its easy. Put your money where your mouth is, buy the land and do what you like with it. If you don’t have enough money, get the 5 or 6 people who care about this issue and pool your money together.
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What an intriguing idea to develop an art museum in Norwalk. Anyone know if we ever had one?
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I agree lets build towards the quality of life and not towards profit from confusion.You have your status qou who developed this city on paper and where great ideas didn’t fit they were dropped. The ones who see Norwalk a great city with great developments didn’t come from here or do they wish to end up here.Its all about profit and power given those two together they cloud anyones elses thinking that is from Norwalk working the system. Stand in the way of progress and stall tourism and then maybe we will get a mayor and a police dept simply doing what they were suppose to do making Norwalk work for all not a handful who think they know whats best for others who have no voice.
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An interseting story of making something out of nothing with Mass. Museum of Comtemporary Art in North Adams (MassMOCA). Talk about pulling a city up by the bootstraps…don’t know how it’s working out but it is a terrific comtemporary museum in a restored set of abandoned mill buildings (something that there is plenty of in North Adams.) Very artsy; very world class. Lots of state money; lots of big names behind it. Could we do it here? Maybe. In truth, Bridgeport may be more the target for something like that. Norwalk’s got too much developer interest in condos and retail…too much potential money to be made. Why waste land on culture?
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once again another great spot to go for the day I recall the buildings all needing to be cleaned up and made safe no one thought it was going to work but the community put condo’s and retail aside and built a great destination for years to come with a great tax base.Nice idea but it would only benefit the community and not the developers I’m sorry to say in Norwalk.
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Great idea as long as it is privately funded and no taxpayer dollars are used.
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In the case of the Mass. Museum of Comtemporary Art in North Adams the town showed interest and invested the first round of money and time then the state came in to protect its investment something Norwalk rarely does without front money or donations.What has the developers donated recently I’d say GE has made numerous donations over the years and havn’t asked for any considerations and that includes their employees as well their continued support at the homeless shelter is simply awesome.
