NZ Visual Diary - entry 198

Fidelity Life atrium

There’s an old joke: How do you know that a bunch of architects have come to town for a professional meeting? The punch line: There are swarms of people walking the streets and they are all looking up.

And so it is among architecture photographers: always look up.

I have featured the Fidelity Life building before. I was drawn to the observation that the team of architects and interior designers took brilliant advantage of the inside-out/outside-in concept of modern architecture as championed, among others, by its storied theorist-practitioners, Frank Lloyd Wright in America and Le Corbusier in Europe. Reducing the perceived visual distances between the interior and exterior spaces of a building, be it home or office, was for the moderns a first principle.

My early post on the Fidelity Life building attempted to present that interplay of interior and exterior spaces.

With the post here I wish to illustrate the virtue in remembering to always LOOK UP.