As we were wandering through City Hall we went through what i thought was a little hallway. It ended up being more of a circular corner of the hallway. There were these beautiful windows with no glass. Just the annoying curtain with the annoying light that shone through. It is your typical sash and cord window with a beautiful wood frame and ornate handles.
I couldn't resist taking a detail shot of the window. I was hard to get just the right part of the window because there was a light shining through the curtain. No matter which angle i tried, the light was there.
When we rounded the corner, this is exactly what i saw to my right. I was completely surprised to see all of this. I had no idea!! I just assumed Minnesota didn't have buildings like this with marble like this in it. I always assumed that the older states like Boston had this kind of stuff.
I was so fascinated with this angle. The second thing that came to my mind was, Escher. The stairs completely remind me of Escher's work. You can definitely see the "open" staircases from this angle. They appear to have no support. Marble and iron(?) staircases.
This is the moment where looking straight up just doesn't work. Instead, i flipped my phone over to take this shot. Hence the crookedness of it. This is the ceiling of the City Hall! Notice that the windows leading up to the ceiling are all open. All four sides are like this. I was very impressed. I could have stayed all day in this lobby and just looked and looked and looked. I probably would have been climbing the stairs all over the place like a little kid.
*the spacing is driving me NUTS on these pages. i can't fix it so that there is a space between the pictures and the paragraphs. Gah!
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