*️⃣National Art Center Tokyo

Architect #Kurokawa #KishoKurokawa
City #Tokyo
Country #Japan #AP

🔤The entrance lobby atrium features 21.6 meters high-ceiling and the undulated #glass façade. The energy-saving design cuts out of solar heat and ultraviolet rays, and the building has a symbiotic relationship with the surrounding areas.

As the trees surrounding the museum grow, they will enclose the atrium in a forested public space.
Also in the atrium space are two inverted cones, the upper portion of both featuring the restaurant and café.

The atrium connects with the Roppongi downtown as one part of the street, perhaps to be an element of Roppongi’s famous nightlife.

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Function #public #museum
Colour #teal
Feature #interior #adminvisited
Address: 7 Chome-22-2 Roppongi, Minato City, Tokyo 106-8558, Japan
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*️⃣Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

Architect #MVRDV
City #Rotterdam
Country #Netherlands #EU

🔤One of the building’s most striking features is the reflective façade, which is comprised of 6,609 square metres of #curvedglass subdivided into 1,664 mirrored panels. The mirroring panels ensure the integration of the design with its surroundings, by reflecting and thus honouring the activity and the nature of the Museumpark, designed by landscape architect Yves Brunier with OMA in the nineties. #context

The form of the 39,5-metre-high Depot is ovoid, a building ‘in the round’. Its bowl-like shape means that the ground-level footprint is small – maintaining views into and routes through the Museumpark – while the roof is as expansive as possible.

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the world’s first fully accessible art depot, is located at Museumpark in the centre of Rotterdam. The assignment was to offer a glimpse behind the scenes of the museum world and make the whole art collection accessible to the public.

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Colour #reflective
Function #public #museum
Feature #adminvisited
Address: Museumpark 24, 3015 CX Rotterdam, Netherlands
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*️⃣IAC Building

Architect #FrankGehry #Gehry
City #NewYork
Country #USA #NA

🔤This deconstructivist style building, headquarters of the American Internet company InterActiveCorp was the first project undertaken by Frank Gehry in the “Big Apple” in 2007.

Barry Diller, the head of IAC who was intimately involved with the project, mandated that the facade be covered in smooth glass rather than wrinkling titanium, as Gehry had originally planned.

The 10-story building is divided horizontally into two main levels of five floors each, with a narrowing on the sixth floor. It is divided into five vertical sections at lower levels and three on top, further enhancing the appearance of the sails of a ship. Because of its shape, composition and color is also conceptually related to an iceberg.

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Material #mattglass
Function #office
Address: 555 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011, United States
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*️⃣TreeHotel village

Architect #BjarkeIngels #BIG, #Videgard, #Snohetta, #Eggertsson, #Inrednings and #Sandberg
City #Harads
Country #Sweden #EU

🔤Northern Sweden is known for its natural beauty, expansive forests, and distinctive biosphere. Strong climatic contrasts through the seasons have required highly resilient architectural types, incorporating the local materials of wood and stone. The Treehotel in Swedish Lapland is known for its broad variety of cabins, with each cabin having a distinct identity that reacts differently to the forest.

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Function #hospitality #hotel
Feature #district
Address: Edeforsvägen 2A, 961 78 Harads, Sweden
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*️⃣Metropol Parasol

Architect #JMayerH #Mayer
City #Sevilla
Country #Spain #EU

🔤Inspired in the vaults of Seville’s cathedral, and in the rubber plants of the Cristo de Burgos square, the aim of these large #wood structures is to protect pedestrians from the intense Sevillian sun, aside from including new uses in their four levels to reactivate this neighborhood.

Realized as one of the largest and most innovative bonded timber-constructions with a polyurethane coating, the parasols grow out of the archaeological excavation site into a contemporary landmark, defining a unique relationship between the historical and the contemporary city.

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Function #public #observation #community
Address: Pl. de la Encarnación, s/n, Casco Antiguo, 41003 Sevilla, Spain
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