Urban Buildings: San José

Friday, January 25, we had the chance to go to the Urban city, San José. In San José, we were able to see four buildings, City Hall, Tech Museum, and Martin Luther King Jr. We were able to compare and contrast the different buildings. What was so unique about the three of these is that they aren't uniformed. They're all  so different from each other yet, they're in the same area. One has a glass facade, the other a mexican theme, and the other is a mixture of glass and concrete. It may seem like different areas of a state, but they're all in the same are and city.

The City Hall Dome reminded me of a R2D2, with it's steel blades hanging from it, covering the glass dome. The thing I found curious was what my teacher pointed out. The building's orientation was facing AWAY from downtown. It had it's "back" against it. Next was the Martin Luther King Jr. Library. The library combined the heavy elements with light elements makes it an interesting building to look at. If you pay close attention, the tower part of it sorta looks like an open book. Maybe a reason behind it? The building I loved the most was the Tech Museum. Not for it's content but for it's outside. The colors he chose were very contradicting. How the orange was very different from the blue of the IMAX Theater. But how, Legorreta decided to make it a mexican themed building in the middle of an Urban city. Just overall, how each Architect decided to make each building their own