Machine Love: Sir Norman Foster’s Courtyard Canopy

Michael
May 17, 2006

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Ten tons of steel finally flying free.

        —With apologies to Muhammad Ali

Hoisting the framework for our courtyard canopy. Construction begins.

One fine, crisp morning last week, as you were comfy at home reading Time Magazine’s feature on architect Sir Norman Foster, I was outside the museum in my hard hat and steel-toed boots shivering through a stakeout of our own Foster project.

This little video—the result of my morning—gets my heart pumping for a number of reasons.

 

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