{"id":29607,"date":"2025-01-19T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/?p=29607"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:14:19","slug":"patchwork-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/01\/patchwork-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"“Patchwork Quilt” – Variations on a Theme, image 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CG0623<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ghery’s architectural works stand out in any skyline. The multiple colors, textures, and waves on the Museum of Pop Culture exhibit a wonderful feast of the eyes. While many of his buildings and designs are similar to the Pritzker Pavilion here in Chicago – mostly uniform in color – the Seattle design has multiple treatments and colors for the sheet metal. As we walked around the exterior, I found dozens and perhaps hundreds of potential abstracts, and after editing, here are a few that stood out as spectacular.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you walk away from the Seattle Space Needle, you’re treated to the chrome and copper variations in the anodized metal. The waves and variations reminded me of a patchwork quilt that has been tossed on the couch; almost as if the wind had blown the building into that particular spot in Seattle’s downtown.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

tossed on the couch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,29,3783],"tags":[7630,7952,6565,6518,4314,912,84,402,2774,1964,6313,7950,7929,92,8069,575,166,7939,7932,7937,1617,5817,6517,72,206,354,8160],"class_list":["post-29607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-unique","category-architecture-skylines","category-transportation-industrial","tag-7630","tag-24-10-05","tag-28-200-f2-8-5-6","tag-a7r3","tag-abstract-architecture","tag-architecture","tag-clouds","tag-curves","tag-frank-ghery","tag-metal","tag-museum","tag-museum-of-pop-culture","tag-oct24","tag-october","tag-organic","tag-reflections","tag-sculpture","tag-seattle-space-needle","tag-seattle-trip-oct24","tag-seattle-wa","tag-shimmer","tag-shine","tag-sony","tag-sunlight","tag-texture","tag-waves","tag-week-3-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29617,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607\/revisions\/29617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}