[TheForge] Stainless

[Ray Miller]

Except do not talk to the trustees of the Gugenheim Museum in Bilbao, 
Spain, one of the Gehry Titanium architectural efigees. THe titanium 
skin is oxidizing quite alarmingly. Not too different visually, I am 
told to aluminum oxidation on old raw aluminum screen doors. I was told 
that they are suing him and his firm for restoration and a possible 
replacement facade.
Ray
Cincinnati

Rick & Kims Email wrote:

>There is the Architecture school in North Carolina that makes
>buildings out of things not usually classified as building materials
>such as car windshields, carpet squares, tires and rammed earth.  They
>recently had an exhibit in the Smithsonian.  Frank Gehery  likes to
>use titanium for the outer skin of his buildings.  He maintains that
>because of it's inertness and long life, and lack of maintenance, it
>has the lowest life cycle cost for a building exterior.
>
>Perhaps you could use them to make a stainless steel outhouse
>
>Rick Korinek
>Emerald City Forge
>Framingham, MA
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