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| WEST SIDE OF ASHLAND MYSTERY BUILDING... |
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Ashland has some beautiful lakefront parks, with hiking and biking trails, beaches and marinas.
Unfortunately it also has some business activity that could easily be located elsewhere, a function of days gone by when the lake was a workplace and had far less recreational and esthetic value.
A year and more ago a small lakefront store was sold and demolished, and plans made to erect a new building and start a business devoted to lake sports...fishing, surfing, paddle boarding, kayaking and so forth. I have been watching the building being constructed, and have been mystified by its design, but it has progressed to the point that it seems to look like a boat of some kind. It is really no concern of mine, but I think it exceedingly silly, and I can't imagine a planning commission approving it, given its prime location between two parcels of public beach.
My first thought was that it was meant to look like a fish, but I now am sure that boat it is meant to be, but what kind? Laker ore boat? Fishing boat? Charter cruise boat? Joan says it looks like Noah's Ark, and soon the animals will be looking out the windows, "two by two."
Or, maybe it is simply abstract architecture, meant to entice us to put our own interpretation upon it. If so, I think the architect exceeded his abilities. It sure isn't a Calatrava or a Sarranin, or the Sydney opera house.
Too bad the site wasn't dedicated as a park.
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