that clock-tower is on another building, not the new Museum of Contemporary Art!

Phew… we thought it had been lopped off the old building and plonked on the new! A case for further Photoshopping, perhaps? Speaking of symbolism, MCA architect Sam Marshall says the white blocks are symbolic of the ochre [ie. pipeclay] used by the Aborigines who lived on the foreshore before white settlement. Oh yes. Alas we preferred the bigger white block of the previously-rejected design. Here’s James Weirick’s account of the process last time. Here’s the unsuccessful Sauerbruch Hutton design – minus the symbolism…

While we haven’t yet seen the New Museum of Contemporary Art on The Bowery, New York, there’s a certain blocky similarity to the look of the Marshall Plan, minus of course the materials and bravado of the New York version. You can read the MCA blurb here, and do a spooky fly-through as well! Here’s the (virtual) view from the roof, and a virtual sculpture!