you jest?!?
ok, that settles it: there is NO WAY this design is in any way an innocent coincidence.
I'm serious.
Here's the sludge from the website:
Paul Murdoch Architects, Nelson Byrd Woltz, RBA Partners, Sato & Boppana, Davis Langdon, George Saxton Associates, Clayton Lee Rugh, Paulynn Cue, Aleksander Novak-Zemplinski, Design Models, Inc., Steve Payne
GATEWAY
Tall enough to be seen from the highway, the TOWER OF VOICES heroically marks the entry to and exit from the Park. Set on a planted mound in a clearing, within resonating rings of White Pines, the Tower houses forty white aluminum wind chimes. The continuing songs of chimes in the wind celebrate a living memory of those who are honored. The outside of the curved concrete tower wall is finished with white glass mosaic tiles to create a reflective, ephemeral quality, and blue plaster inside to evoke the sky. At night, the Tower interior is evenly grazed with light and the exterior illuminated as a beacon. Near the Tower there is parking, public restrooms and an information/orientation kiosk.
APPROACH/RETURN
Visitors are able to drive or bike through the site on the two-lane Approach Road, matching the route of the existing Haul Road, to the entrance of the Bowl. Pedestrian trails, originating from the Tower, lead through the woods at the site’s western edge and at higher elevations to the east overlooking the Park. A one-lane Return Road allows visitors elevated views of the Tower to the north and views back to the Bowl. Areas of the mining landscape, especially with higher soil and water toxicity, are treated with phytoremediation using plants such as poplars, sunflowers and mustards. The healing of the landscape prepares the visitor, as a metaphor, for the emotional healing of the memorial. Existing draglines are removed but components, like their buckets, are preserved to mark overlook locations.
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Blue inside? I have seen such a place, in Istanbul.