*️⃣Arts et Métiers station (11-line)

Designer #Schuiten #FrancoisSchuiten
City #Paris
Country #France #EU

🔤The station its name from the nearby Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, including the Musée des Arts et Métiers, both of which it serves. #context

The station on line 11 has been completely covered since October 1994 with #copper plates riveted to each other. This dressing was put in place during the bicentennial ceremonies of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. It is the work of Benoît Peeters, French screenwriter, and François Schuiten, Belgian designer. #retro

The traveller is plunged inside a vast machine, a sort of underground Nautilus evoking the atmosphere of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, in steampunk style. On the station's ceiling, a series of large cogs evokes the Musée des Arts et Métiers. Copper, the only material used, evokes the technical and industrial world. On the platforms, a series of portholes open onto small scenographies, centred on the museum's collections. All the station's furniture suits the decoration style and constitutes a unique case on the network.

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Colour #bronzen
Function #transportation #metro
Feature #interior #adminvisited
Address: V984+56 Paris, France
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*️⃣SunnyHills at Minami-Aoyama

Architect #Kuma #KengoKuma #KKAA
City #Tokyo
Country #Japan #AP

🔤"We used a traditional joint system in #wood structure construction in Japan called “Jigoku Gumi” to create soft warm human space that feels like a forest or cloud.
The adoption of a 3D structure system enabled the cross section of one member to be reduced to as thin as 60mm x 60mm. As the building is located in middle of the residential area in Aoyama, we wanted to give some soft and subtle atmosphere to it, which is completely different from a concrete box." #context@simoderna

The architect himself compares the resulting structure to a woven bamboo basket, though if one wishes, they can also see a resemblance to an unpeeled pineapple—which aligns even better with the store’s theme. Additionally, according to Kengo Kuma’s vision, such cladding is meant to evoke wild forest thickets, serving as an antithesis to Tokyo’s “concrete jungle.”.

This same type of wood members that are as thin as branches which were used to build this space are used to taste the pineapple cake made from carefully selected ingredients.

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Function #hospitality #cafe
Feature #interior #adminvisited
Address: 3 Chome-10-20 Minamiaoyama, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0062, Japan
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*️⃣Ewha Womans University

Architect #Perrault #DominiquePerrault #DPA
City #Seoul
Country #SouthKorea #AP

🔤It is a building like no other, a building that goes down instead of up. As Perrault puts it “sometimes building, sometimes landscape, sometimes sculpture.”

Like a horizontal billboard, the sports strip presents the life of the university to the inhabitants of Shinchon, and vice-versa. Once through the sports strip, pedestrian movement and flow through the site is celebrated.

A seam slices through the topography revealing the interior of the EWHA campus center. A void is formed, a hybrid place, in which a variety of activities can unfold. It is an avenue, gently descending, controlling the flow of traffic, leading to a monumental stair carrying visitors upwards, recalling les Champs Elysees or the Campidiglio in Rome.

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Colour #grey
Material #steel
Function #mixeduse #public #park #education
Feature #context #nightlight
Address: 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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*️⃣Ciudad de las artes y las ciencias

Architect #SantiagoCalatrava #Calatrava
City #Valencia
Country #Spain #EU

🔤To maintain its city’s cultural standing, the government of Valencia resolved to establish a museum of national importance.

In 1991, Calatrava won the competition for the original project: a telecommunications tower, to be built on the west end of the site. Later that same year, Calatrava received the commission to develop the whole complex, which was also to include a science museum and a planetarium. After a change of government in 1996, the planned telecommunications tower was replaced by an Opera House.

In recognition of the civic importance of the Opera House, Calatrava gave the building the iconographic character of a monumental sculpture. In form, the building is a series of apparently random volumes, which become unified through their enclosure within two symmetrical, cut-away concrete shells.

The Planetarium theater resembles a human eye, set within a pool. The ‘pupil’ is the hemispherical dome of the theater, which is transformed into a globe through its reflection in the pool #water. The concrete socket of the eye incorporates an ‘eyelid’ of vertical, articulated metal slats, which can be raised to permit views across the pool. #kinetic

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Colour #white
Function #mixeduse #public #museum #park #entertainment #theatre #concerthall
Feature #district #retro #adminvisited
Address: Quatre Carreres, 46013 Valencia, Spain
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*️⃣Little Island Park

Architect #ThomasHeatherwick #Heatherwick
City #NewYork
Country #USA #NA

🔤The idea for the pier came from the existing wooden piles and wondering how a structure could form organically from these rather than being a surface on top. Inspiration for the form of the pots came from looking at the ice patterns that forms around the piles when the water freezes.

The brief asked for a public park and outdoor performance space. Pier 54 had recently been damaged by Hurricane Sandy and the design was inspired by the structural remnants of previous piers and hundreds of old wooden piles poking out of the Hudson River.

Construction was sequenced over three years to minimise disturbance to marine life, and more than four hundred different species of indigenous trees and plants suited to the harsh climate of New York have been planted within the new landscape.

More detailed history of the project on Wikipedia

Project was selected by #Dezeen as the best landscape project in the year of 2022. #award

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #public #park
Feature #onwater
Address: Pier 55 in Hudson River Park at, W 13th St, New York, NY 10014, United States
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