Object Lesson #55

Stephen Kobasa photograph

Carleton Granberry Associates, Crown Street Parking Garage, 1971
between Temple and College

Not quite the Pantheon, or the Guggenheim spiral, but still a remarkable opening into space hidden alongside the Temple Street Plaza. One has to stand in the dirt for a view through this observatory, evoking an insight from Oscar Wilde that We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

See Kobasa’s previous Object Lessons here.

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