*️⃣Maison Louis Vuitton Sanlitun

Architect #Aoki #JunAoki
City #Beijing
Country #China #AP

🔤Located within the Sanlitun shopping district in the heart of China's capital city, the facade of the four-storey building has a fluid form and is clad in dichroic mirrors.

It was designed in reference to a dress designed by Nicolas Ghesquière, artistic director of Louis Vuitton's women's collections, and presented as the final look of the Women's Spring–Summer 2016 show.

The resulting facade is composed of two layers. An inner envelope ensures insulation, while the external layer is a mosaic of 315 hand-curved glass pieces and was designed to act as an "architectural lace".

Through the adoption of dichroic mirrors, the overall surface of the building shifts colours based on the movement of daylight and seasonal changes, leading the brand to describe the store as "a larger than life kaleidoscope".

Apparently this is yet a third Louis Vuitton mentioned in @simoderna archive. The Tokyo Maison is reminiscent of the new one in Beijing and is also done by Jun Aoki.

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Colour #blue
Material #curvedglass and #stainedglass
Function #retail #shop
Address: 39.933536, 116.448053

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text by Dezeen

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*️⃣Canton TV tower

Architect #IBA
City #Guangzhou
Country #China #AP

🔤"We wanted to offer the city, something simple but complex, a new form that would be in tune with the contemporary times and that would challenge the current building technologies. Where most historical skyscrapers were bearing male characteristics; being angular, heavy and based on repetition, we defined our tower to have the identity of a female; smooth, curved, slender and gracious, in short a sexy tower." - (c) IBA

Single curved surfaces like cylinders have weaknesses. Double curved surfaces, as the hyperboloid in question, are curved in two directions and thus avoid these weak directions. This means that you can get away with far less material to carry a load, which makes them very economical. The second reason is that it is made entirely of straight lines (pic. 3) reducing costs by avoiding curved beams. #budget@simoderna

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Colour #white
Material #steel
Function #public #observation #industrial #other
Feature #skyscraper
Address: 4849+RG2, Binjiang E Rd, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 510310
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pics by yukophotography.com (1,5), architects (3) and Pinterest (2,4)
text by architects and Sebahattin Bektas (scispace.com)

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*️⃣Centre Pompidou-Metz

Architect #Ban #ShigeruBan
City #Metz
Country #France #EU

🔤The roof is made from laminated #wood in a hexagonal woven pattern composed in the form of a Chinese bamboo-woven hat.

This large wooden roof is covered in a Teflon-coated fibreglass membrane (PTFE #polymer) and allows soft natural light to filter into the interior

The main galleries are a series of 90m x 15m cantilevering rectilinear tubes that float above the ground, and their glass window ends point in the direction of the cathedral and other monuments of the city. #cantilever

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Colour #white
Function #public #museum
Feature #nightlight
Address: 1 Parv. des Droits de l'Homme CS 90490, 57000 Metz, France
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pics by #RolandHalbe
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*️⃣Städel Museum extension

Architect #Schneider #Schumacher #SSA
City #Frankfurt
Country #Germany #EU

🔤The new space below the garden houses the 20th century art collection. This space is dominated by a gently domed, airy ceiling with circular roof #glass lights. These "eyes for art" were specially developed for the Städel extension and are designed to be walked on.

The domed ceiling is a prominent feature in the topography of the garden above and resembles a land art object. “Frankfurt is given not only a distinctive and unique exhibition space, but a state of the art green building too.” (Excerpt from the competition jury)

The extension to the museum is placed along the central axis reinstating the historic spatial arrangement. #heritage

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Function #public #museum
Feature #renovation
Address: Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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pics by #NorbertMiguletz and #KirstenBucher
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