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Gehry's Extreme Model RR and Architecture Museum

General Discussion
#1

Just saw this in Google’s news pages.

https://www.archdaily.com/889618/gehrys-extreme-model-railroad-and-contemporary-architecture-museum-designs-revealed-in-new-video

Gehry’s Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum Designs Revealed in New Video- 10:00 - 23 February, 2018

Frank Gehry’s designs for the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum have been revealed, and as its name implies, the museum is about to take miniature trains to the maximum.

Located on an 83,000 square foot site in North Adams, Massachusetts, just a few blocks away from contemporary art museum and artist residence Mass MoCA, the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum looks set to become the preeminent playground for architects and model train enthusiasts alike.

#2

Model railroad museum AND a museum of architecture? That seems like kind of an odd mix.

#3

Ray Dunakin said:

Model railroad museum AND a museum of architecture? That seems like kind of an odd mix.

Sounds like a great idea. Models of buildings in railroad scales on a layout! Can’t really have full-size items in a Museum of Architecture (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#4

Birds eye view and a 35’ tall Empire State Building!

So much for the 10’ rule!

Maybe they’ll treat it like a Sequoia rising up between the walk ways…(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#5

Road trip! If I start now I’ll probably make it by 2021. It sounds really, really cool to me, both from the standpoint of railroading but for architecture, as well.

#6

I started college in 1981 at VA Tech for architecture but never could pass calculus so went for another major.
But then my health led to not completing that and since I sucked at higher math I ended up in retail for 23 years.

Go figure.

Architecture is still an interest. And the further I’ve gotten past 30 years old the less and less contemporary, modernist, postmodern, architecture I like.

I wonder what that’s all about.

#7

Forrest Scott Wood said:

I started college in 1981 at VA Tech for architecture but never could pass calculus so went for another major.
But then my health led to not completing that and since I sucked at higher math I ended up in retail for 23 years.

Go figure.

Architecture is still an interest. And the further I’ve gotten past 30 years old the less and less contemporary, modernist, postmodern, architecture I like.

I wonder what that’s all about.

I know the feeling, at Menlo College (1969) it was all engineering and no design to make it worth while … After one semester I was across the bay in Bezerkley digging the music and restoring my brothers sportscar. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#8

Interesting, in all my years in architecture and model railroading I have met very very very few architects who did model railroading. Architects generally don’t have hobbies, Frank Gehry was never on the radar for this hobby unless this is a recent development.