[VOA]

this magnificent structure

Just an ignorant question...
Is the structure meant to be symbolic of something in particular?

I can sort of see the shape as an abstraction of the triangular shape
of the cluster of Marines planting the flag on Iwo Jima.
Maybe this is obvious to everyone else, but I was just wondering.

I'm no architect, but if I'd submitted a design, I'd probably submitted
an huge version of a quonset hut. But then I grew up watching "Gomer Pyle"!

[leadpenny]

"I'd probably submitted an huge version of a quonset hut."

That is what the Marine Corps Aviation Museum has been housed in, on the base, all these years. My guess is that it will be incorporated into the new museum.

[PleaDeal]

From the MCHF site:

"the museum's soaring design evokes the image of the flag raisers of Iwo Jima and beckons visitors to its 100,000 square foot structure."

Some printed literature also lists:

• An aircraft's powerful takeoff
• A howitzer firing at close-range targets - its barrel steeply elevated
• The Marine Rifleman bursting through the surf and barbed wire at Tarawa
• The sharpshooters scrambling up the rigging to man thier "Fighting Tops"
• The Leathernecks climbing the cargo nets after another amphibious assault

But whatever you think it looks like, its all good.

OOORRRAAAAAHHHH!