*️⃣Changzhou Culture Plaza

Architect #gmp
City #Changzhou
Country #China #AP

🔤The design reflects elements of Changzhou’s southern Chinese culture and the city’s prominent water features. The building modules – which #cantilever bridge-like in a large arc - consist of six 50 meter-high pavilions.

The space between the art gallery and the science museum forms the public plaza in the center of Changzhou. With its water features and generous landscaping, it provides an inviting ambiance and serves as a meeting point in the district.

A water course running diagonally through the 17 hectare site links all the modules together and acts as a source of lighting for the restaurants in the basement.

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Colour #monochrome
Material #aluminium@simoderna
Function #public #community
Address: China, Jiangsu, Changzhou, Xinbei District, 655, 西北方向170米 邮政编码: 213002
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*️⃣Sendai Mediatheque

Architect #Ito #ToyoIto
City #Sendai
Country #Japan #AP

🔤With the intentions of designing a transparent cultural media center that is supported by a unique system to allow complete visibility and transparency to the surrounding community, the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito is revolutionary in its engineering and aesthetic.

Six level steel-ribbed slabs appear to float from the street, supported by only thirteen vertical steel lattice columns that stretch from the ground plane to the roof. This striking visual quality, which is one of the most identifiable characteristics of the project, is comparable to large trees in a forest and functions as light shafts as well as storage for all of the utilities, networks, and systems.

The four largest tubes are situated at the corners of the plates, which serve as the principal means of support and bracing. Five of the nine smaller tubes contain elevators, while the other four are more crooked and carry the ducts and wires.

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Colour #white
Material #steel@simoderna
Function #public #library
Address: Japan, 〒980-0821 Miyagi, Sendai, Aoba Ward, Kasugamachi, 2−1 1F
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*️⃣Qatar National Library

Architect #OMA #Koolhaas #RemKoolhaas
City #Doha
Country #Qatar #ME

🔤From the beginning the idea was to make reading as accessible and as stimulating as possible to the population of Qatar as a whole. OMA thought they could achieve that by creating a building that was almost a single room, not divided in different sections or into separate floors.

"One similarity between architecture and bookmaking is that both have unbelievably long traditions but are also forced to be of the moment, constantly updating in order to survive." — Rem Koolhas

#quote@simoderna.

The edges of the building are lifted from the ground creating three aisles which accommodate the book collection and, at the same time, enclose a central triangular space. This configuration also allows the visitor to access the building at its center, rather than laboriously entering from the perimeter. The aisles are designed as a topography of shelving, interspersed with spaces for reading, socializing and browsing.

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Colour #white
Material #stone #marble
Function #public #library
Feature #interior@simoderna
Address: District of Freedom, Education City, Al Luqta St, Doha, Qatar
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*️⃣XOCO 325

Architect #DDG
City #NewYork
Country #USA #NA

🔤One of the most central and unique materials used in the construction of XOCO 325 is cast #aluminium. Taking its inspiration from the Soho Cast Iron Historic District in which it is located, the building is cloaked in a custom cast aluminum façade that seems to float over a hanging glass wall. #context@simoderna

The striking design was slowly conceived of through DDG’s extensive survey and research of the neighborhood – in which it found 250 cast iron loft buildings. XOCO’s façade derived from the designers’ fascination with the historic buildings’ “kit of parts” industrialization and its reliance upon componentry and patterns.

To celebrate this style of architecture, yet modernize it for the 21st century, DDG opted to replicate the bay spacing found in the area, use cast aluminum as it is lighter and more affordable, and hang the custom structure over a massive glass wall, in order to maintain a sense of privacy for residents.

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Colour #grey
Function #residential
Address: 325 W Broadway, New York, NY 10013, United States
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*️⃣Zayed National Museum

Architect #Foster #NormanFoster
City #AbuDhabi
Country #UAE #ME

🔤Zayed National Museum has just opened its doors to the public. The building’s form addresses the challenge of sustaining life in a desert environment. The museum’s five light-weight #steel wings are part of the system of natural ventilation and "... they are also symbolic of Sheikh Zayed's love of the traditional sport of falconry and have become markers on the city skyline." – Norman Foster.

Air vents open at the top of the towers, taking advantage of the negative pressure on the lee-side of the profile to draw hot air out from the atrium, assisted by the thermal effect of the heat build-up on the tips of the wings. The wings are glazed to channel natural light into the galleries below. #sustainability@simoderna

The museum spaces are located within a mound, which has textured faceted panels that are an abstraction of the topography of Jebel Hafeet. Materials have been carefully selected to resonate with the local surroundings and mirror historic buildings across the seven Emirates, which reflect the changing colour of the sand in different locations. #context@simoderna

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Colour #white
Function #public #museum
Address: GCM4+CM Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

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