This probably did not need to be a separate post, but as these colors aren’t GREEN, they would have messed up my green-themed post from two days ago😂
I mentioned in that post that the Marcus Performing Arts Center changes color. I probably didn’t specify that the colors change like every 10-15 minutes, it seems. The lights will be one color while I’m walking to my parking garage after work, and then by the time I’m in my car, leaving the garage, the lights are a different color entirely.
Anyway, here are two more lighting combinations. The changes in color are achieved with lighting that is thrown onto the building from attached fixtures.
I guess this one (above) is purple, but at the time I took the picture, I was thinking of it as blue. So maybe they have another one that’s lighter and more purpleish.
I took the picture below when  I was coming home last night (yes, sadly, I was working in my office on a Saturday; never believe those fairytales that professors don’t work hard). This time I noticed it was the yellow and red, which I hadn’t seen in a while, so I thought I’d take a picture and add that to my little collection, as well.
Katherine Wikoff 
I also love the green tower in the background left. So much lovely color!
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I remember how, back in the 1980s, Mayor Henry Maier put forward several ideas for how to beautify Milwaukee and presumably make it a world-class city in the process. Some of his ideas were odd, but some were kind of cool.
I remember one idea was to put a fountain in the outer harbor of Lake Michigan. That was strange and never went anywhere.
Another was to have pennants flying atop every building in downtown Milwaukee. For a while, that was actually a thing, and it was kind of cool to see all these long-tailed pennants flying in the same direction as the wind. It looked sort of like a medieval castle with lots and lots of flags atop each spire. Those pennants have disappeared over the decades, and I don’t know if any are left now.
But his last suggestion appears to have stuck. And that was to turn Milwaukee into the city of lights. Never mind that Paris already had that distinction, lol. Almost immediately back in the 1980s some buildings began installing really cool lighting to illuminate their facades. And now some 40 years later, I see just amazing lighting that emphasizes architecture everywhere at night in downtown Milwaukee, some of which is projected light, as in the Marcus Center, and some of which is artful application of LED lighting.
None of this really matters, I suppose, but I always think it’s interesting to look back and see how things have developed over time.
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