— unpredictable thoughts

From out­side the color draws me like a bea­con. When inside color washes over my body and it changes as I move from one place to another. I’m orange. I’m blue. When I chase the light and it chases me. That expe­ri­ence is the Mon­treal Con­ven­tion Center.

When I hear the words con­ven­tion cen­ter I cringe. I have expe­ri­enced many a con­ven­tion cen­ter and they are unin­spired spaces. They have very lit­tle if any energy of their own. Vis­i­tors come and go but the build­ings and spaces cre­ated inside are dead except for the mechan­i­cal drone of HVAC or esca­la­tors. Some of the build­ings focus are indus­trial, some mon­u­men­tal, oth­ers over­grown shop­ping malls.

Why is it that our gov­ern­ment build­ings are so unin­spir­ing? Is it our cul­ture? Is it because we some­how think that our tax dol­lars and neigh­bor­hoods don’t deserve beauty? I think it is the process that we have for cre­at­ing pub­lic build­ings. The process is with­out inspi­ra­tion or vision.

Mon­treal on the other hand had a mar­velous vision and they have shared it with all of us.

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The Penn­syl­va­nia Con­ven­tion Cen­ter is one of the worse inside and out. I don’t want to go on about it check it out your­self here : http://www.paconvention.com