but its quite preliminary as you can see, just the main ... design themes shown. What will the facade look like? Something extremely minimalist, something over the top? Dont know! But this should get built by 2011!
Indeed, no other way to accommodate that spiraling atrium. Let me see if i can get more pics:
courtesy of jarmo K.
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I REALLY hope it does get built in accordance with the designs primary purpose: exoskeleton.
This is pretty cool but I would be interested to know if that's been reviewed structurally. With every diagonal member running in the same direction, there doesn't seem to be anything to transfer a shear load into the ground. It looks like it would want to twist itself into the ground.
^I used to be on the fence about this one, but I recently read a review of the Hearst in Architectural Record, and it will suffice to say that my opinion has been swayed in the direction of not "liking it" (for lack of a more articulated opinion). This isn't to say that I was simply brainwashed by the review into assuming the author's opinion, but the author pointed out a lot of details that I hadn't really given much thought into that helped me form my opinion more fully (I am going to spare the specific rationale for the details are too subtle and complex to discuss briefly). In short, there is just something about the mix of the old structure and the new one placed atop it that simply does not work for me.
[BIG seeks to facilitate the cultural integration of Islamic and Danish culture by designing the first ever ground up mosque to ever be built in Denmark]
MIES
[commonwealth promenade apartments] CHICAGO, USA, 1956
the project originally featured four apartment buildings located at the corner of diversey and sheridan. two of the four towers were built. the project is one of the five conceived by mies and greenwald together on chicago's north side. the modernist towers are concrete frame buildings clad with a glass and anodized aluminum shell.
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