*️⃣São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP)

Architect #LinaBoBardi #BoBardi #Bardi
City #SaoPaulo
Country #Brazil #SA

🔤When Lina Bo Bardi received the commission to build a new museum of art on São Paulo’s Terraço do Trianon, she was given one condition: under no circumstances could the building block the site’s panoramic vistas of the lower-lying parts of the city. This rule, instituted by the local legislature, sought to protect what had become an important urban gathering space along Avenida Paulista, the city’s main financial and cultural artery.

Undeterred, Bo Bardi came up with a solution that was simple and powerful. She designed a building with a massive split through its midsection, burying half of it below the terrace and lifting the other half into the sky. As a result, the plaza remained open and unobstructed, and in 1968, the iconic São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) was born.

The MASP’s monumental aesthetic is the result of an ingenious engineering scheme whose structural clarity dominates the building’s formal language. Two enormous pre-stressed concrete beams, resting on equally massive piers, traverse the length of the site in parallel and suspend a voluminous box containing the museum’s main exhibition and administrative spaces.

The great structuralist Herman Hertzberger wrote that "pedestrians who walk on the plaza beneath the galleries feel nothing of the weight of the structure overhead, but rather sense that a cloud has passed in front of the hot Brazilian sun and given them a delightful moment of coolness."

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Colour #red
Material #concrete
Function #public #museum
Feature #retro
Address: Av. Paulista, 1578 - Bela Vista, São Paulo - SP, 01310-200, Brazil
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*️⃣Busan Cinema Center

Architect #Coop #Himmelblau #CoopHimmelblau
City #Busan
Country #SouthKorea #AP

🔤The project, the firm’s first in South Korea, addresses the theme of the roof as an architectural element – a topic which Coop Himmelb(l)au has been concerned with for a long time. Already in the Renaissance and the Baroque era, the roof is transformed into a cupola, thereby achieving a particular significance. But it was Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier who define the roof not anymore as a mere element of protection, but as a frame for the most diverse concepts... ...The construction as a column-free roof covering a space comes closest to the idea of a ​“flying” roof...” – Wolf dPrix.

The building has won a Guinness World #record for the "longest cantilever roof" in the world.

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Colour #metallic
Material #steel
Function #entertainment #theatre
Feature #nightlight
Address: 120 Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea
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*️⃣Starbucks Hualienbay Store

Architect #Kuma #KengoKuma #KKAA
City #Hualien
Country #Taiwan #AP

🔤"We designed a mobile café with recycled containers in Hualien, a spot popular for sightseeing in Taiwan.

We stack up the 40 foot containers to a height of four levels, by staggering in the angle of 90 degrees to create a transparent building like a tall tree. Since they are stacked in a rotating pattern, we were able to produce various types of terraces as well."

I believe that the porous ‘Urban Forest’ that makes good use of the containers can be a new prototype of sustainable architecture and lightweight mobility." – KKAA #sustainability

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Colour #white
Material #steel #container
Function #hospitality #cafe
Address: No. 505號, Section 1, Nanbin Rd, Ji’an Township, Hualien County, Taiwan 973
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*️⃣Lumin

Architect #Tsimailo #Lyashenko #TLP
City #Moscow
Country #Russia #EU

🔤Lumin house is located in the historical center of Moscow and is surrounded by dense urban development. The project concept had to solve two problems: to fill the apartments with the maximum amount of natural light and to create a secluded atmosphere in the very center of the city.

The stepped structure of the facade with "cells" - lightboxes allowed to increase the total surface area capable of transmitting light. The main materials used were clear and frosted glass. Blocks of frosted glass form the walls, while clear glass was used for the panoramic windows.

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Colour #white
Material #mattglass
Function #residential
Feature #nightlight #adminvisited
Address: Slavyanskaya Square, 2/5 стр. 1, Moscow, 109074

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*️⃣Kutuzovsky Avenue 12

Architect #Tsimailo #Lyashenko #TLP
City #Moscow
Country #Russia #EU

🔤The key feature of the façade are transparent #curvedglass columns that glow at night, and are decorative and not structural. Right after sunset, when there is still daylight, the columns glow at full power. As dusk settles in, the intensity gradually decreases, down to ten percent by the time of total darkness. Built-in reflectors prevent the light from shining into apartments. #nightlight

At street view, the building seems minimalist and strict... Its grandeur and symmetry seamlessly fit the building into the surrounding Stalinist environment.

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Function #residential
Feature #adminvisited
Address: Kutuzovsky Ave, 12, Moskva, 121248

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