The Museum of Glass in Tacoma has an interesting, modernist design. It was designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, his first art museum. He started working on the building in 2000 and in 2001 the building was completed. At the top of the building, shaped like an angled cone, is the hot shop, where visitors can watch glass artists shape their work.

The hot shop:

Artists and visitors see a close up view of the glass being worked or “blown” on a large screen.

Outside the museum is the  Chihuly Bridge of Glass, which links the museum site with downtown Tacoma.

Rising upward and topping this bridge is a glass sculpture by Chihuly consisting of chunks of green-blue glass. (And there’s no way to make this photo square without ruining the view of what it looks like. But it definitely tops the entire complex.)

Source: Wikipedia: Museum of Glass

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