*️⃣MAAT: Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

Architect #AL_A
City #Lisbon
Country #Portugal #EU

🔤MAAT is an outward-looking museum located on the banks of the Tagus in Belém, the district from where the Portuguese great explorers set off.

Blending structure into landscape, the kunsthalle is designed to allow visitors to walk over, under and through the building that sits beneath a gently expressed arch – one of the oldest forms in western architecture. #context

Building on Portugal’s rich tradition of craft and ceramics, three-dimensional crackle glazed tiles articulate the façade and produce a complex surface that gives mutable readings of water, light and shadow. The overhanging roof that creates welcome shade is used to bounce sunlight off the water and into the building.

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Colour #white
Material #ceramic
Function #public #museum
Feature #adminvisited
Address: Av. Brasília, 1300-598 Lisboa, Portugal
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*️⃣Mercedes-Benz Museum

Architect #UNStudio #UNS
City #Stuttgart
Country #Germany #EU

🔤The Mercedes-Benz Museum is a cultural landmark that unites the past, present and future of this legendary car. Located beside Mercedes-Benz’s factory.

The structure of the MB Museum is based on a trefoil; both in its internal organization and in its outward expression this geometry responds to the car-driven context of the museum. Inside, walking down the ramps of the Museum, surrounded by cars of different ages and types, the visitor is reminded of driving down the highway.

Outside, the smooth curves of the building echo the rounded vernacular of nearby industrial and event spaces, such as the soccer stadium, the Mercedes-Benz test course, and the gas and oil tanks along the river, as well as the recurrent loops of the road system on site. #context

The building also implicitly radiates the qualities that we see as the best of our times; good quality materials, durability, character, neatness. In its materialization the MB Museum reproduces the values that we associate with Mercedes Benz: technological advancement, intelligence, and stylishness.

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Colour #metallic
Material #aluminium #rawconcrete
Function #public #museum
Feature #interior
Address: Mercedesstraße 100, 70372 Stuttgart, Germany
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*️⃣Alexandria Bibliotheca

Architect #Snohetta
City #Alexandria
Country #Egypt #ME

🔤Alexandria Bibliotheca is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest libraries worldwide, which was lost in antiquity.

The circular, tilting volume of the Bibliotheca is an architectural gesture that transcends mere aesthetics. Its form recalls the cyclical nature of knowledge—expanding and contracting through time. Simultaneously, its inclination towards the sky evokes the ancient Pharos Lighthouse, another lost Alexandrian wonder, reinforcing the building’s dual role as both a learning and a cultural monument.

The exterior wall is a canvas of letters and symbols without a specific statement and an artistic celebration of the smallest element of the library's content, the letter.

Whereas the content is a collage of letters, signs, and symbols from the history of humankind, the actual walls were inspired by the ancient natural layers in their physical make-up, creating a fusion of culture and nature. Varying stone dimensions represent layers of bygone eras unveiled by erosion.

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Colour #grey
Material #stone #rawconcrete
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: الأزاريطة والشاطبي، Bab Sharqi, Alexandria Governorate 21526, Egypt
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*️⃣Your Rainbow Panorama

Architect #Olafur #Eliasson #OlafurEliasson #SOE
City #Aarhus
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤"A city is a cosmos, a site for social encounters and cohabitation. A museum is a vision machine that challenges our senses, thoughts, and felt opinions. The public, you, is a barometer of the world. You mould as much as you receive.

Your rainbow panorama sits on top of a house of condensed meanings – contested, defended, undone, and re-enacted – of cultural intentions, historical realities, visions, and revisions. Museums will always be vision machines. Visions for now and forever."

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Colour #mixed
Material #stainedglass
Function #public #observation #museum
Feature #nightlight
Address: Aros Allé 2, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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*️⃣56 Leonard Street

Architect #HdM #HerzogdeMeuron #Herzog #Meuron
City #NewYork
Country #USA #NA

🔤The high-rise tower is an important ingredient within the contemporary city. However, towers have come to be defined solely by their height and, as a type, they have become anonymous. The multiplication of units within simple extruded shapes produces repetitive and anonymous structures with no extra benefits or architectural qualities despite the incredible densities they achieve.

56 Leonard Street acts against this anonymity and repetitiveness, emanating from so many towers of the recent past. Its ambition is to achieve, despite its size, a character that is individual and personal.

The top of any tower is its most visible element and, in keeping with this, the top of 56 Leonard Street is the most expressive part of the project and relates to the tradition of iconic tower tops in New York City. This expressiveness is driven directly by the requirements of the interior, consisting of ten large-scale penthouses with expansive outdoor spaces and spacious living areas.

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #residential
Feature #skyscraper
Address: 56 Leonard St, New York, NY 10013, USA
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