*️⃣Free University library

Architect #Foster #NormanFoster
City #Berlin
Country #Germany #EU

🔤The foundation of the Free University in 1945 marked the rebirth of liberal education in Berlin after the war. This redevelopment and retrofit scheme, includes the restoration of its Modernist buildings and the creation of a new library for the Faculty of Philology.

The new library's four floors are contained within a naturally ventilated, bubble-like enclosure, which is clad in aluminium and glazed panels and supported on a tubular steel frame with a radial geometry. An inner membrane of translucent glass fibre filters sunlight and creates an atmosphere of concentration, while scattered window openings create changing patterns of light and shade, with momentary view of the sky and glimpses of sunlight.

The serpentine profile of the floors creates a pattern in which each floor swells or recedes with respect to the one above or below it, generating a sequence of generous, light-filled spaces in which to work. Interestingly, the library’s cranial form has earned it a nickname of its own – ‘The Berlin Brain’.

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Colour #white #yellow
Material #mattglass
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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*️⃣Marina Bay Sands

Architect #Safdie #MosheSafdie
Country #Singapore #AP

🔤Linked at the 57th floor by an expansive and lush garden skypark, the Marina Bay Sands Hotel represents a new urban typology characterized by its interconnectedness, both at the ground level and in the sky.

The hotel is designed to align with the URA's long-term planning objective to complete the ring of development around the Marina Bay water basin. Working with the URA guidelines, the building is set back from the waterfront edge and visually porous so as to open views from the CBD to the Singapore Strait beyond. At street level, the design includes a grand, connecting atrium lobby which extends the city's public pedestrian network (google street).

The SkyPark is a shaped structure constructed of spanning steel bridges hovering over the concrete towers below. It includes gardens, restaurants, a one of a kind infinity edge pool, and a public observation deck. It spans from tower to tower and cantilevers 65 meters (213 feet) beyond to form one of the world’s largest public cantilevers. #cantilever.

The 1,396 square meter swimming pool is the largest outdoor pool at its height. #record

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Material #steel
Function #public #observation #hospitality #hotel
Feature #skyscraper
Address: 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018956
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#bonus@simoderna (Hitman 47 and Crazy rich asians movies had scenes filmed here)

*️⃣Capitol Complex: Palace of the Assembly and High Court

Architect #LeCorbusier #Corbusier
City #Chandigarh
Country #India #AP

🔤Chandigarh was one of India's first planned cities, and was Le Corbusier's largest project. He was commissioned to design the masterplan in the early 1950s, after being approved by Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. The city was to serve as the new independent Indian government's regional capital in Punjab, after the previous capital, Lahore, became part of Pakistan.

The architect was disappointed by the local authorities' decision to categorize housing by income level, which contradicted his vision of high-rise residential complexes. So The Capitol Complex, designed by Le Corbusier, was isolated from the city by artificial hills, reflecting his dissatisfaction with the project.

For the forms of the buildings themselves, Le Corbusier applied a combination of traditional Classical features and Indian design innovations, all simplified and realized in concrete.

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Colour #mixed
Material #rawconcrete
Function #political
Feature #district
Address: Sector 1, Chandigarh, 160001, India
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*️⃣Bodegas Ysios winery

Architect #Calatrava #SantiagoCalatrava
City #Laguardia close to #Logrono
Country #Spain #EU

🔤The Bodegas and Bebidas Group wanted a building that would be an icon for its prestigeous new wine 'la Rioja Alavesa' and at the same time accomodate the precise and rigorous program of spaces needed to brew, store and sell wine.

The aluminum roof paneling creates a material contrast to the warm wood of the facade. The effect of sunlight accentuates the roof volume creating a kinetic effect in contrast to the calm background of the vineyard.

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Colour #metallic
Material #aluminium #wood
Function #industrial #winery
Address: Camino de la Hoya, s/n
01300 Guardia, Álava, Spain
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*️⃣Museumsinsel metro station

Architect #Dudler #MaxDudler
City #Berlin
Country #Germany #EU

🔤The stations’ architectonic theme stems from the dearth of natural light underground: the eternal night. The luminous ultramarine blue deployed for the two vaulted tunnels containing the platforms is dotted with 6662 point-sources of light, evoking the star-studded firmament and echoing Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1816 stage design for The Magic Flute.

Due to its direct proximity to cultural sites such as the Staatsoper, the German Historical Museum, the Berlin Cathedral and the Humboldt Forum in the New Palace, the underground station is considered a "cultural station".

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Colour #blue
Material #steel
Function #transportation #metro
Feature #interior
Address: 10178 Berlin, Germany

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