Impressive Architecture Has A Major Impact in Smaller Cities

As outlined in a recent Times Transcript article, Impressive museum buildings not limited to big cities alone, the impact of excellent architecture would have a major impact on a community like Saint John where it will be noticed and acknowledged in a bigger way than it would be in a big city.

Excerpts from the article are quoted below and images of the buildings discussed, all located in small cities, can be found here:

1. Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
3. Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia
4. Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas

"...Yet they're the latest to strive for more than a simple container in designing a new art museum, instead seeking a signature building that will attract both attention and tourists.

"It speaks volumes about the people that live there, where they're going and what they're thinking about their economic development, their situation in the world," said Tom Grubb, the director of the North Carolina museum..."Then we realized it's a project that really, regardless of the size, it changes the life of a whole community," Norten said in an interview from his office in Mexico City. "It has a huge impact on a community.

A big project in a very big city can have very little impact, but in a community like that, it would be great..."