*️⃣Fondation Louis Vuitton

Architect #Gehry #FrankGehry
City #Paris
Country #France #EU

🔤The design responds to the setting of the Jardin d’Acclimatation, evoking the tradition of 19th-century glass garden buildings, the role of the Jardin in cultural memory and the desire to create a contemporary art museum that will be attractive and welcoming to the children and families who frequent the Jardin.

Constructed on the edge of a water garden created especially for the project, the building comprises an assemblage of white blocks (known as “the icebergs”) clad in panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, surrounded by twelve immense #glass “sails” supported by wooden beams. The sails give Fondation Louis Vuitton its transparency and sense of movement, while allowing the building to reflect the water, woods and garden and continually change with the light.

In 2011, an association for safeguarding won a court battle because the judge ruled that the center argued against the new building alter the “Green Peace” Historical Park. The city appealed the court’s decision and the renowned French architect

Jean Nouvel backed Gehry, responding to opponents: “… with her ​​small, tight outfits is pretty pathetic that they want to put Paris in formaldehyde…”.

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Finally, the National Assembly passed a special law claiming that the Foundation was a national interest which allowed it to continue.

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Colour #white
Function #public #museum
Address: 8 Av. du Mahatma Gandhi, 75116 Paris, France
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*️⃣Guangzhou Opera House

Architect #Hadid #ZahaHadid #ZHA
City #Guangzhou
Country #China #AP

🔤Like pebbles in a stream smoothed by erosion, the Guangzhou Opera House sits in perfect harmony with its riverside location. Its unique twin-boulder design enhances the city by opening it to the Pearl River.

The design evolved from the concepts of a natural landscape and the fascinating interplay between architecture and nature; engaging with the principles of erosion, geology and topography. The Guangzhou Opera House design has been particularly influenced by river valleys – and the way in which they are transformed by erosion.

Custom moulded glass-fibre reinforced gypsum (GFRC) units have been used for the interior of the auditorium to continue the architectural language of fluidity and seamlessness. #interior

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Material #concrete #steel
Function #entertainment #concerthall
Address: 38VC+H44, Yiyuan S Rd, 客村 Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 510310
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*️⃣Abrahamic Family House

Architect #Adjaye
City #AbuDhabi
Country #UAE #ME

🔤The Abrahamic Family House is a collection of three religious spaces: a mosque, a church, and a synagogue—all of which will sit upon a fourth secular space consisting of a Forum and raised garden. The house will serve as a community for interfaith dialogue and exchange, nurturing the values of peaceful co-existence and acceptance among different beliefs, nationalities, and cultures.

The form is translated from the three faiths, carefully using the lens to define what is similar, as opposed to what is different.

The Imam Al-Tayeb Mosque is oriented towards Mecca. Light filters through the delicate GRP latticework of the mashrabiya screens, which circulate air while maintaining privacy. Four seamless, monolithic columns represent the Islamic notions of stability, order, and fullness and create a vaulting space that orients the visitors toward the mihrab.

The St. Francis Church is oriented towards the rising sun in the East. From the courtyard, two uneven columns suspend above the entrance symbolizing the testing of faith. Inspired by the altar of St Peter’s Basilica, a canopy of linear timber elements cascades down from the ceiling in a “shower of ecstatic redemption.”

The Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue is oriented towards Jerusalem. A series of three V-shaped columns amass to create a screen between the interior and exterior, referencing the overlapping layers of palm fronds on the sukkah—a structure used during Sukkot, the Jewish festival of shelter. A bronze mesh tent—symbolizing the original tabernacle— cascades from a skylight in the ceiling and drapes over the congregation.

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Colour #tan
Material #stone
Function #religious
Feature #district
Address: GCJ4+84F - Jacques Chirac St - Al Saadiyat Island - Cultural District - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
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*️⃣Salesforce Transit Center

Architect #Pelli #Clarke #PelliClarke
City #SanFrancisco
Country #USA #NA

🔤Salesforce Transit Center is a state-of-the-art multimodal transit station in downtown San Francisco, linking 11 transit systems and connecting the city to the region.

A gently undulating wall, floating above the street on angled steel columns, will be visible from afar, creating a graceful, luminous, and welcoming image. At street level, shops and cafes will draw visitors and energize the surrounding neighborhood, while high above, the trees and flowers of the rooftop park will invite people to visit for longer periods, transforming the Transit Center from a commuter hub to an urban destination.

The heart of the Transit Center’s design is the rooftop park. Dense with nature and activities, it will have over a dozen entry points, potentially including bridges to surrounding buildings. Active and passive uses are woven into the landscape, including a 1,000-person amphitheater, cafes, and a children’s playground.

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Colour #white
Material #aluminium
Function #mixeduse #public #park #retail #mall
Address: 425 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States
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*️⃣MUDEC Museum

Architect #DavidChipperfield #Chipperfield #DCA
City #Milan
Country #Italy #EU

🔤The project does not have a street front, but it is surrounded on all four sides by existing historical buildings with uniformly articulated elevations, inspired by a typical Milanese typology where regular façades conceal the intricate arrangement of internal courtyards behind.

As a cluster of several square blocks differing in height and size, the new building reflects the internalised quality of the wider site. They are clad in grey titanium zinc – in keeping with the industrial nature of the area – which, together with the fritted mirrored glass used for the windows on the outward-facing façades, and the continuous metallic grids that cover the roofs, gives the volumes a strong monolithic appearance.

A distinguishing feature of the museum is its central hall, forming a court within a court. Its amoebic curved form sharply contrasts with the rigid geometry of the surrounding monolithic forms, as well as with the regular shape of the city block and its austere façades. This luminous glass space at the heart of the building extends above the surrounding rooflines, forming a lantern that acts as a beacon across the site.

The spaces benefit from generous daylight filtered through rooflight systems. The columns supporting the lantern structure form a curving peristyle court reminiscent of a medieval cloister with four entries at its cardinal points. The galleries adhere to a principle propagated by Adolf Loos whereby the height is proportional to the floor area: the larger the floor area, the higher the ceiling

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Colour #white
Material #mattglass
Function #public #museum
Feature #interior
Address: Via Tortona, 56, 20144 Milano MI, Italy
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