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Kiefer Technic Showroom
Designer: Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH
Location: Graz, Austria
These façades change continuously; each day, each hour shows a new “face” - the façade is turning into a dynamic sculpture.
→ e-architect.co.uk
Posted: 01/03/2009
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Ann Demeulemeester Shop
Designer: Mass Studies
Location: Seoul, Korea
The site is located in an alley, at a block’s distance from Dosandae-ro – a busy thoroughfare in Seoul’s Gangnam district – in close proximity to Dosan Park. Primarily residential in the past, the neighborhood is undergoing a rapid transformation into an upscale commercial district full of shops and restaurants.
→ www.yatzer.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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Biblioteca Parque Espana
Designer: Giancarlo Mazzanti
Location: Santo Domingo, Colombia
Image Credits: Sergio Gomez
By exploiting the landscape Giancarlo Mazzanti ensures the visibility of his building, in a far more sustainable way. In Rome the axes had to be cut through the existing fabric, as Haussmann also did in Paris. For this library the landscape already ‘naturally’ provides that structure.
Instead of a road axis, a cable car connects the valley with the library. How brilliant is that! The cable cars silently float over the city, needing only some masts to keep it all up. It’s a very clean way of transport too, I think. The major and only disadvantage of such cable car system is that it mostly only connects two points…
→ www.eikongraphia.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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University Project Space
Designer: Junya Ishigami
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Image Credits: Iwan Baan
A white forest in a grey field, Junya Ishigami’s university project space in the foothills west of Tokyo is a building designed to almost disappear. The young Japanese conjurer, who since 2004 has performed a series of astonishing acts of levitation upon furniture and building-sized volumes in galleries, has completed his first construction in the open air.
→ www.yatzer.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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The Porsche Museum
Designer: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Image Credits: andrewmalick
There’s no doubt about it, even now: the new edifice by Vienna’s Delugan Meissl is an eye-catcher. Although the building isn’t quite finished yet, the fascinating impact of the monolithic, virtually floating exhibition hall can already be felt. This bold and dynamic architecture reflects the company’s philosophy and provides a foretaste of the experience that awaits visitors to the future museum. It is designed to convey a sense of arrival and approachability, and to guide the visitors smoothly from the basement level into the superstructure.
In their design, the architects at Delugan Meissl set out to create a place of sensuous experience that reflects the authenticity of Porsche products and services as well as the company’s character, while also reshaping Porscheplatz with an unmistakable appearance.
→ flickr.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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