Frank Gehry designed the Museum of Pop Culture around the idea of a smashed electric guitar, its shards reassembled into something monumental — a building whose form refuses to resolve into a single readable shape no matter where you stand. The cladding is what makes that restlessness legible at close range: more than 21,000 individual stainless steel and painted aluminum shingles, each one slightly different in tint depending on how the light hits it, applied across surfaces that curve and tilt in directions conventional geometry declines to name. Here two of those surfaces press toward each other across a narrow gap, the cool blue-grey of one panel system running hard against the warm golds, rusts, and oxidized teals of another, a dark spine of steel separating them like a seam mid-thought. The shot refuses to give you ground, sky, or scale — just metal talking to metal, which turns out to be exactly the point.
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