*️⃣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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*️⃣Dujiangyan Zhongshuge Bookstore

Architect #XLiving (X+Living)
City #Chengdu
Country #China #AP

🔤In the Central Literature District, the designer uses the mirror ceiling to visually expand spatial ductility and create an open and high feeling. The bookshelf wall inspired from the magnificent Dujiangyan damspreads upward all the way, like a super city wall built with historical culture. With the effect of black tiles flooring, the book tables seems like boats quietly mooring on the lake. It paddles and floats between thebookshelf wall.

The changes of the architectural structure in the walking also reflect the dynamic aesthetics of climate changes, whether it’s rainy, windy or foggy. It seems that the beautiful scenery of Dujiangyanis vividly presented in the space.

When you go up the stairs, the bookshelves beside you offer a variety of books at accessible distance. Other places where people could not reach are decorated with book pattern film, you can still feel the majestic momentum of the space.

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Colour #black
Material #wood
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: 2M74+WF Dujiangyan City, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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*️⃣Cidade Das Artes

Architect #Portzamparc
City #Rio #RiodeJaneiro
Country #Brazil #SA

🔤The Cidade das Artes resembles a large house, a great veranda above the city – a tribute to an archetype of Brazilian architecture. Between the two horizontal plates of the roof and the terrace are set the large curved concrete walls that contain the halls in an interplay of volumes and voids. This is another version of the open block – hollow but made out of assembled layers.

The architecture frames and echoes the beautiful curves of the Siera Atlantica Mountains and the line of the sea. #context

The building is a small, raised city organized around a terrace ten meters above ground, floating upon a public park – a tropical, aquatic garden designed by Fernando Chacel. This terrace is a public space; it is a gathering point that gives access to all of the facilities, where you feel like you’re in Rio’s great landscape.

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #entertainment #venue
Feature #interior
Address: Av. das Américas, 5300 - Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22793-080, Brazil
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