"I'm in a glass case of emotion"

Le Cartier and Maison de Verre were both spectacular buildings that were made almost solely out of glass and steel. You don’t find many buildings such as these in the US or in the world. I shouldn’t be combining these buildings together in a post, but I just love the architecture of glass buildings!

Maison de Verre’s exterior has circular glass blocks that form into panels. The glass however, has a transparency that blocks from someone viewing from the outside. It was considered, “private”, but on the inside held a wonderful display. Unlike the La Roche House, Maison de Verre’s interior was shown like nothing had changed from the 1930’s. Furniture was all in place and in pristine condition. It blew my mind that the house had desks from 1919 that looked like it wasn’t affected by any disaster or decay. There was this great staircase in the back of the house that was made completely out of black cement with cage. They way it turned reminded me of eerie stairwell. I think the most awesome thing about the house, was that it was able to light up at night via lights shining down on it. In all, the house had some qualities that was reminiscent to the Deetz house from Beetlejuice.

Cartier’s structure was nothing like I ever seen. Metal beams held together the building off the ground, something that was seen at the Branely. But instead of giving privacy to the offices above the Ron Mueck exhibition, the glass clear as day to the street. Of course before I get scolded for going on about the building in general, I should probably do a brief summary of the assignment given at the Mueck exhibition.

As a group we had to conclude a theme to his gallery. On top, there was a general theme of sacrifice. It shown people and things in these instances where they had to give up to support another. One thing that stood out from the rest was this chicken strung up from the ceiling. It was plucked and looked to be ready to cook. From a far, I had no idea what it meant and thought it was the strangest thing. But looking closer, I saw that the chicken had damp eyes and a single drop of water on the tip of its beak. It looked like it had cried in its last minutes of life before being sacrificed for human consumption. Though the top floor exhibition primarily shown human sacrifice, you kind of forget that animals go though the same thing. Whether it’s for the same species or differ.