*️⃣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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*️⃣Shanghai library east

Architect #SHL
City #Shanghai
Country #China #AP

🔤"The site is located in Shanghai, at the end of Shiji Boulevard. When we first looked at it, we were struck at how green the place is. The vicinity to Century Park, one of the largest areas of public green in Pudong, represents an unique opportunity of connecting the city with the nature. We hence propose to conceive the library as a destination within the park, that should almost appear to float above the trees. The representation of a rock with its sedimentary strata is expressed in the glass facade."

Despite its forward-thinking approach, the library also pays homage to classical Chinese scholarship through its design, which is reminiscent of the scholar’s rock, the Taihu stone, a symbol of ancient literati, thus anchoring the modern building in Chinese history and tradition.

Taihu stones, or scholars’ rocks, served as muses for the Jin dynasty intelligentsia—sources of creative inspiration and meditation. In its architecture, interior design, and programming, Shanghai Library East evokes a scholar’s rock in a Chinese garden: a polyhedral stone enveloped in an emerald tree canopy.

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Material #wood
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: China, Shang Hai Shi, Pudong, 2001, 东南方向90米 邮政编码: 201204
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*️⃣Fenix Museum of Migration

Architect #MAD
City #Rotterdam
Country #Netherlands #EU

🔤The warehouse in Rotterdam's City Harbour has been converted into a museum by restoration consultants Bureau Polderman to tell stories of migration through art. #refurbishment

Its centerpiece is the Tornado – a pair of giant helical staircases by MAD that winds up from the ground floor of the building and out from its roof, culminating at a viewpoint overlooking the River Maas.

The Tornado was designed to symbolize movement. "The theme migration is about movement, so the staircase is about movement." Meanwhile the steps are finished with 12,500 planks of modified wood called Kebony, designed to emulate a ship.

Once the largest warehouse in the world, it was chosen for the museum for its history as a storage space for the Holland America Line, via which millions of migrants, including Albert Einstein, were transported in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The structure also features a 6,750-square-meter green roof planted with sedum, significantly reducing pressure on the sewer system, lowering flood risk, and easing the burden on water treatment facilities. #sustainability

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Colour #reflective
Material #steel
Function #public #museum
Address: Paul Nijghkade 5, 3072 AT Rotterdam, Netherlands
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*️⃣Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Center

Architect #ZahaHadid #Hadid #ZHA
City #Zhuhai
Country #China #AP

🔤Echoing the chevron patterns of migratory birds flying in formation over southern China, the latticed #steel canopies sheltering each venue are configured through repetition, symmetry, and scale variation; resulting in a composition of related elements that respond to the different functional requirements of each building.

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Colour #black
Function #entertainment #venue
Feature #onwater
Address: 4985+GX4, Jinwan District, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China, 519041
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*️⃣ 1000 Trees

Architect #Heatherwick #ThomasHeatherwick
City #Shanghai
Country #China #AP

🔤Following the trend in China towards increasingly enormous property developments, the team became convinced that a new large-scale development of retail would not sit well next to the neighbouring art district, river and park. Instead they decided to see if this project could be an extension of these elements.

Rather than focusing on the façade, the studio became interested in the rational grid of one thousand structural columns that a construction project of this scale would need for support. This in turn led to the idea of transforming the top of every column into a large planter so that the project could have a balancing softness and variety to the inevitable hardness of modern construction.

On the mountain's southern facade, the photos reveal a contrasting art wall that is lined with billboards and street art. "Along that road there used to be a long graffiti wall where people would travel from all over to paint there so we wanted to retain this aspect somehow," said Finlay.

Arranged in varying heights across the site, the #rawconcrete columns allow one thousand trees to be planted and create an undulating topography of balconies which reach upwards from the lowest point at the art district, park and river.

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Function #retail #mall
Feature #greenery
Address: 6CXW+PVX, Moganshan Rd, Putuo, Shanghai, China, 200071
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