*️⃣Chengdu Jiaozi Pedestrian Bridge

Architect #CSADRI (China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute)
City #Chengdu
Country #China #AP

🔤To ensure seamless connectivity and unobstructed passage for pedestrians, the footpath system is organized into three elevation levels. The three-dimensional transportation and layered #greenery are reminiscent of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. As a tribute to ancient construction pioneers, the pedestrian bridge reproduces the dreamlike vision of "people traveling in the air".

The structure of the bridge is inspired by the stem from which lotus leaves grow and adopts an irregular two-way rigid frame system. The varying sizes of openings between the lotus leaves ensure stability while reducing the overall weight of the structure.

The nine discs not only form a complete whole but also offer nine relatively independent activity scenes. The fantastic water show features fountains and colorful glass displays. The middle section of the bridge deck is hollowed out into a ring, creating an ideal spot to overlook the river from within the opening. The #water curtain is designed around the ring, where a light show is held at night.

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Colour #white
Material #steel
Function #transportation #bridge
Feature #nightlight
Address: 30°35'06"N 104°04'37"E

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*️⃣Raj Sabhagruh Discourse Hall

Architect #Serie architects
City #Bilpudi close to #Surat
Country #India #AP

🔤Awarded to Serie Architects in 2012 through an international invitational competition, the design of Raj Sabhgruh draws its ideas from the Jain Samavasaran, a fabled temple, composed of a tapering ascension of platforms, housing humans, animals, and demi-gods in divine communion with a 'Tirthankara', an enlightened being, seated at the apex of this formation.

This mythical building represents the aggregation of knowledge—through discourse and learning—as building blocks, to bring devotees ever closer to enlightenment. This concept is reified in all Jain temples, where the aggregation of self-similar elements creates lofty shikaras—curved, pyramid-like forms that cap the sanctum sanctorium at the heart of the temple and appear to reach for the sky.

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Colour #tan
Material #brick #marble
Function #entertainment #venue
Address: G5VV+6PM, Bilpudi, Gujarat 396050, India

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*️⃣Unité d'Habitation of Berlin

Architect #LeCorbusier #Corbusier
City #Berlin
Country #Germany #EU

🔤The post war isolation of West Berlin had made it difficult to rebuild the city. In the same time the East German government, with support from the Soviet Union, had built a whole new housing section in East Berlin. In an effort to compete with the East German accomplishment, the Senate of West Berlin created the IBA (International Building Exhibition or Interbau). Le Corbusier had just completed his Unité in Marseille in 1952 and it was arguably the most famous social housing project in the world and it was especially him who was invited to participate in the IBA.

Walter Gropius said about the Unité: "Any architect who does not find this building beautiful, had better lay down his pencil."

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Read ful history in Wikipedia.

The building is constructed in béton brut (rough-cast concrete) and is part of the initial architecture style we know today as brutalism. The structure was built with on site prefab cast concrete panels and poured ceiling slabs. The Modulor system is the base measure of the Unité and Corbusier used not more than 15 Modulor measures to construct the entire structure form. There is a polychrome as Le Corbusier tends to do in all his works, using red, yellow, blue and green.

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Colour #mixed
Material #rawconcrete
Function #residential
Feature #retro
Address: Flatowallee 16, 14055 Berlin, Germany
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*️⃣Dream Downtown Hotel

Architect #Handel
City #NewYork
Country #USA #NA

🔤In 1964, the National Maritime Union of America commissioned New Orleans-based architect Albert Ledner to design a new headquarters for the Union. Two years later, he designed an annex for the headquarters on the site where Dream currently sits. In 2006, Handel Architects was engaged to convert the complex into the Dream Downtown Hotel. #renovation

The "otherness" of Ledner’s 1966 design was critical to preserve. Along the 17th Street exposure, the sloped façade was clad in stainless steel tiles, which were placed in a running bond pattern like the original mosaic tiles of Ledner’s Union building. New porthole windows were added, one of the same dimension as the original and one half the size, loosening the rigid grid of the previous design.

The 16th Street side of the building, previously a blank façade when the building served as an annex, was given new life.
The skin is constructed of two perforated stainless steel layers, its top sheet of holes a replication of the 17th Street punched-window design and the inner sheet a regular perforation pattern.

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Colour #metallic
Material #aluminium
Function #hospitality #hotel
Feature: #heritage
Address: 355 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011, United States
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*️⃣Church on the Water

Architect #Ando #TadaoAndo
City #Nakatomamu close to #Sapporo
Country #Japan #AP

🔤It is a small chapel which is attached to the Alpha Resort hotel. Ando establishes a sacred chamber, isolated from the mundane and focuses all the visuals toward a small forest of birch trees through which a stream flows.

Ando has substituted the frontal wall of the temple, in which there would traditionally be divine images of certain religious significance, with a more vivid and eloquent representation of the Creator: nature itself.

In this way, he creates a living, multicolour and ever-changing scene, that changes from the sepia tones of autumn to the glaucous hues of winter; from the florid blooms of spring to the intense greens of summer.

This concept, known as "shakkei" (借景) or "borrowed scenery," integrates nature as part of the interior space.

"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see." – Tadao Ando.

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #religious
Feature #retro #water
Address: Nakatomamu, Shimukappu, Yufutsu District, Hokkaido 079-2204, Japan
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