Ikea vs Breuer

While working in New Haven, Ct, we stayed near an Ikea with  Marcel Breuer designed building in the parking lot. Breuer is from the Bauhaus school and is world renown for his architecture and furniture design. He designed the Whitney Museum in NY, among others. This building in New Haven, I believe, is known as the Pirelli Tire building, and was apparently saved by preservationists after Ikea bought the property sometime around the beginning of this decade. The building is saved but empty. It looks like its only use is as a glorified wall for Ikea to hang it's banners. 

Upon first look, the style of the structure looks pretty heavy handed, almost crushing, until you notice the beautiful sculpted patterns on the facade of all four of its sides. We were lucky enough to happen upon the building late on a clear afternoon so we could get the early evening light highlighting all of Breuer's design elements sculpted into the concrete surface. I'm so lucky to have a job that allows me to travel and stumble upon art in a random parking lot. 

Shot with the Nikon D3 and a 24mm PC Nikkor lens.