*️⃣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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*️⃣Tsuruoka city culture hall

Architect #SANAA
City #Tsuruoka
Country #Japan #AP

🔤Tsuruoka Cultural hall is a multipurpose hall that serves as a base for cultural and artistic activities in the region. The surrounding site is characterised by its abundant nature, and is located in a cultural precinct of ​​the city filled with historic buildings, universities and galleries. A building was sought to expand local civic activities, while incorporating the old cultural hall which has been the heart of cultural activities to the students and local arts groups.

As a "hall for the community" where citizens become participants, observers and actors, we proposed a large hall wrapped by a corridor, resembling traditional Japanese ‘Saya-do’ construction. The exterior of the building looks like an assembly of many small roofs. Each small roof become lower towards the perimeter of the building, and it becomes as low as a one story building along the road. By controlling the volume in this way, we sought to make a building that is in harmony with the adjacent historic building and the surrounding cityscape. #context

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Colour #metallic
Material #aluminium
Function #entertainment #venue
Address: 11-61 Babacho, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-0035, Japan
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*️⃣ Conservatory of Montreuil

Architect #ClaudeLeGoas #LeGoas #Goas #RobertBezou #Bezou
City #Paris
Country #France #EU

🔤In fact, its architecture, which has honeycomb-like compartments and is reminiscent of a beehive, is a practical example of the Modern Movement’s tenet that form follows function.

Light shells with rounded shapes are delivered to a metal structure in thin sheets of metal coated with resin. Each music session can be held in a conducive environment because to the level of sound insulation provided by the shells’ independence from one another.

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Colour #red
Material #steel
Function #education
Feature #retro #adminvisited
Address: 11 Av. de la Résistance, 93100 Montreuil, France

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*️⃣Zenbo Seinei

Architect #ShigeruBan #Ban
City #Hyogo close to #Osaka
Country #Japan #AP

🔤This is an accommodation facility where guests can experience“zazen” (sitting meditation) on a small, lush site on Awaji Island. In fact, the design is reflective of many of the requirements and ideals of the meditative practice. Besides its remote location which would allow for a calm environment, the layout conveys an extensive and elongated space (up to 90 meters in length) which can be suggestive of the stretching of time in which one is immersed in their thoughts. The idea of balance can also be noted as the large, yet seemingly light center is half-suspended on two main steel base columns.

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Material #wood
Function #hospitality #hotel
Feature #cantilever
Address: Japan, 〒656-2301 Hyogo, Awaji, Kusumoto, 字場中2594-5
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*️⃣Seattle Central Library

Architect #RemKoolhaas #Koolhaas #OMA
City #Seattle
Country #USA #NA

🔤At a moment when libraries are perceived to be under threat from a shrinking public realm on one side and digitization on the other, the Seattle Central Library creates a civic space for the circulation of knowledge in all media, and an innovative organizing system for an ever-growing physical collection – the Books Spiral.

The library's various programs are intuitively arranged across five platforms and four flowing "in between" planes, which together dictate the building's distinctive faceted shape, offering the city an inspiring building that is robust in both its elegance and its logic.

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Material #steel
Function #public #library
Feature #interior #nightlight
Address: 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
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