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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Desert Modernism
The
Louvre Abu Dhabi
, by French architect Jean Nouvel. This looks kind of cool, inside and out, and in principle I love that lattice dome, but wouldn't those speckles of light make it hard to look at art?
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