Blog 7: Philip Freelon

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights was built in 2014 in Atlanta, GA. It is a building covered in multi-colored panels that were designed to represent human skin tones. The walls are slanted to give a symbolic evocation of two hands coming together. I like this building because of the symbolization that Freelon tries to make in it by joining all colors of skin together and making two hands coming together.

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