22. Pyramids
Posted in: Thirty-three things on Aug 1
How did an industrial city on the prairies develop pyramids as a major architectural theme? Hell if I know. And yet a new one springs up every few years as if there were some master pyramid plan.
The trend is clearly toward glass and steel pyramids, as you can see from the photos below. The best example is probably the Muttart Conservatory, which has four pyramids on its own. City hall has two, and West Edmonton Mall has only one. That last fact is sort of surprising, since it wouldn't be out of character for the WEM developers to build either a) a Luxor-esque giant pyramid or b) lots of small pyramids, as a part of some dubious grab for notoreity.
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(You can look at this Quicktime VR of the Muttart Conservatory pyramids for a narrated tour of its botanical gardens.)
Posted by Gene Smith on Aug 1, 2002
