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Frank Gehry designed the Museum of Pop Culture — originally the Experience Music Project — by reportedly smashing guitar bodies together and using the resulting forms as the basis for the building's geometry, a creation myth that sounds apocryphal but is entirely true. The cladding that makes those forms legible is over 21,000 stainless steel and painted aluminum shingles, each shaped and fixed individually, so that the surface reads differently in every light condition and from every angle. Here, cropped tightly against a flat pale sky, two sweeping volumes curl past each other in the upper right corner of the frame, their shingles shifting from gunmetal grey at the top edge through bands of oxidized gold and bronze where the light catches the curves — the building's surface doing exactly what Gehry intended, behaving less like a wall and more like a finish. The composition gives you almost no sky and almost no ground: just the metal, folding in on itself, as though the building is still in the process of becoming.
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