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...Harborwalk is a blue painted line that will take you from the Old State House to museums and landmarks along the Boston waterfront including the Children's Museum, the New England Aquarium (T: Aquarium, on the Blue Line) and the Boston Tea Party Ship...
Mystic is also home to Mystic Aquarium, one of the largest in the country, and of Mystic Pizza, immortalized in a Julia Roberts movie of the same name...
Thanks largely to Chermayeff's passion and innovative eye, big-city aquariums are more popular than ever. His sparkling creations in Boston; Baltimore, Md.; Osaka; and Chattanooga, Tenn., have revitalized stagnant waterfronts and are pulling in huge crowds. The Genoa Aquarium, created with architect Renzo Piano, is Italy's fourth most popular tourist attraction and is drawing more visitors each year than the Uffizi...
...distinguished company, Lisbon's Oceans Pavilion stands out. Its titanic 1.2 million-gal. central tank and four side tanks (holding an additional 300,000 gal.) are home to 8,000 specimens of 250 species, arranged so that predators and prey seem to swim side by side. Visitors to the aquarium set off on a grand, circumnavigable tour around the world's oceans, past sharks, bluefish, wreckfish and more. Along the way they pass through naturalistic-looking coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated by nesting Magellanic...
Chermayeff, who fell in love with the sea as a child on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, is proudest of how his new aquarium lets you see distinct environments united into one, interconnected oceanic whole. Fourteen-inch-thick acrylic walls separate the habitats with their murres and penguins from the pelagic sharks, jacks and clouds of schooling mackerel. The animals seem to live alongside, yet are safely away from, the predatory ocean dwellers. "The wonderful thing is that it all starts to connect and take on a richness," says Chermayeff. Indeed, it's possible to look past puffins and otters...