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I don't care what anyone says--and this building has a lot of nay-sayers: I love the Ponti building. I love the way it looks at 4:00 on a December afternoon, with the late winter sunlight turning the million glass tiles to gold. And I like the idea of stacked galleries. Unlike big art museums in other cities, having them stacked like this, accessible by elevator, makes it easy to drop in for an hour only--you can get to the art you want to see without traipsing through miles of galleries.
 

Jesus, whoever wrote that image caption needs to go back to Journalism school.

(I'm assuming it came from some kind of newspaper.)
 

I agree with History Mystery. I love that the DAM is a relative high-rise as far as art museums are concerned. It makes it very easy to check out one or two floors of galleries (in my case, the Native American floor and the Asian floor specifically) without seeing anything else, if you've only got a short amount of time to spend there. Of course, those elevators are slower than molasses, but then again that's what the stairwell's for! :)
 

I lovingly refer to the old museum building as "the Fortress". It looks like it would more appropriately be an armory for the Army or something...

The new building is so indescribable I can't think of any other nickname for it other than "the new museum wing".
 

"The new building is so indescribable..." how about psychedelic mushroom?
 

Or "origami boulder".