The Very Visible

You might have seen the good news that the Visible School is purchasing Frances Gassner's endangered masterpiece, the C&I Bank Building:

Beside the saving of an icon, the Visible School's purchase and move adds to the further redevelopment and reVITALization of central downtown Memphis. Within 4 blocks we'll have 2 colleges adding their students to the same street and into the urban mix. An unprecedented number of young adults on the streets of downtown Memphis during business hours.

3 Sculptures in Relief

On St. Luke's United Methodist Church on the Highland Strip.

the Hippo House at the Memphis Zoo,

and the Main Street Fire Station.

Each is a streamlined metal relief representation of the building's function, an alternative to the detailed ornament banished from modernism.