*️⃣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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*️⃣Casa de la Ciudad - Sede del Gobierno

Architect #NormanFoster #Foster
City #BuenosAires
Country #Argentina #SA

🔤Ciudad Casa de Gobierno is a new city hall for Buenos Aires, housing offices for the Mayor and 1,500 employees. Spanning an entire city block in Parque Patricios, the new building contributes to the revitalisation of the neighbourhood and combines an environmentally efficient design with an innovative, highly flexible internal arrangement of terraced office floors. The architecture echoes the building’s park-side setting, with landscaped courtyards and shaded walkways, and uses materials that draw on the site’s industrial past to reinforce the unique character of the area.

Entrance is via a soaring four-storey-high atrium. Full-height glazing fills the space with natural light and creates a visual connection with the adjacent park, and four tiers of office levels step back to create a sequence of stepped internal terraces.

Every aspect of the scheme was designed in response to the local climate, including the composition of each facade – the eastern and western elevations are shaded by a screen of louvres, which rise the full height of the building. The thermal mass of the concrete soffits, combined with chilled beams, helps to naturally regulate the temperature and keep the offices cool. #sustainability

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #office
Address: Uspallata 3150, C1437JCJ Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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