COLOPHON: "The Milwaukee Art Museum's Quadracci Pavilion, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed building in the United States, features a 90-foot high glass-walled reception hall enclosed by the Burke Brise Soleil, a sunscreen that can be raise or lowered creating a unique moving sculpture. With fin size ranging in length from 26 to 105 feet, the Brise Soleil wingspan spreads 217 feet at its widest point, wider than a Boeing 747-400 airplane, and weighs 90 tons. Unprecedented in American architecture, the Burke Brise Soleil's design is also unique among the moveable structures Calatrava has created in Europe. The Brise Soleil opens when the Museum opens and closed when the Museum closes. The "wings" also "flap" (close and open) each day at noon for the visitors' enjoyment."
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A photographic flip book that, when the pages are thumbed, animates the motion of the Burke Brise Soleil, designed by Santiago Calatrava and installed at the Milwaukee Art Museum.