Soon, promises Christopher Goldsmith, the museum's executive director. The museum's exhibition galleries are due to open in May. After years of pale imitations of old buildings and lost cultures, it's thrilling to see that. Funders have become very resentful of the soaring costs. They use words like 'debacle' and 'travesty,'.
People are finally open to cutting-edge, contemporary design.
With its sleek, glassy facade and bowed roof, the new Milwaukee Tech probably would have been unthinkable in the pre-Calatrava years. Calatrava gives us protection. It's impossible at the moment to be any further out than he is. Still, some design practitioners fret privately that Calatrava wannabes could concoct overblown projects that devalue the real thing. Yet another fear is that if the museum addition doesn't measure up, modernism in Milwaukee could be set back.