*️⃣Beirut terraces

Architect #HdM #HerzogdeMeuron #Herzog #Meuron
City #Beirut
Country #Lebanon #ME

🔤The moderate climate of Beirut is undoubtedly one of the city’s greatest assets; it makes outdoor living an integral part of Beirut’s urban culture. The design therefore aims to cultivate this asset and incorporate it into the apartments. Indoor and outdoor spaces merge into each other so that the generous terraces truly become living spaces.

Extensive #concrete overhangs provide shade and reduce solar gain. The floor plates are thick enough to balance the daily temperature cycles by virtue of their thermal mass, storing cold through the night and releasing it during the day. Where necessary, perforations in the overhangs modulate the lighting and exposure to the sun. Their density, shape, and the shadows they generate form a striking pattern that gives the tower a distinctive identity and sets it off from its surroundings.

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Colour #white
Function #residential
Feature #skyscraper
Address: VFXW+VFP, Beirut, Lebanon
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text by Dezeen and Archdaily

*️⃣Munich Olympic Stadium

Architect #Behnisch and #FreiOtto
City #Munich
Country #Germany #EU

🔤Intended to present a new face for post-war Germany, the stadium—strikingly Modernist in character—was meant to stand in harmony with its surroundings. Despite these modest intentions, however, controversy surrounded the project from its outset, which centered on skyrocketing costs, the erosion of local heritage, and the grim specter of the country’s own recent past.

Seeking to avoid the inherent monumentality of individual structures, their proposal was to gather the various venues and accessory functions close enough together to be united by a common structural element. The concept for the stadium itself was derived from the ‘earth stadiums’ commonly built in Eastern Europe since the end of the First World War. It was as much a symbolic choice as a practical one, as a stadium set into the earth would not present visitors with an imposing edifice, but blend more subtly into the ideal Bavarian landscape being created on the rest of the site. #context

More profound history of the project – Archdaily

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Colour #blue
Material #glass
Function #entertainment #venue #sport
Feature #retro
Address: Olympiapark München, Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21, 80809 München, Germany
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*️⃣Liège-Guillemins Railway Station

Architect #Calatrava #SantiagoCalatrava
City #Liege
Country #Belgium #EU

🔤Liege in the heart of the high-speed network in northern Europe, the railway company wanted the new station to offer an aesthetic that was a reference for the city. The Calatrava project, monumental, expressive, airy and transparent, fulfilled these requirements widely.

Calatrava designed a building, 200m wide, without facades, relying on the roof as a refuge and its identity. The project was marked by transparency and dialogue between two neighborhoods, one residential and the other urban, building bridges between them, separated in the past by railways.

The characteristic transparency of the station is achieved through the monumental vault constructed of glass and steel, which allows a feeling of interpenetration between the station and the city.

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Colour #white
Material #steel
Function #transportation #railway
Address: Pl. des Guillemins 2, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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pics by architects, #Tzarfati and #Ewing
text by wikiarquitectura

#bonus@simoderna (The Guardians of the galaxy 1st part, The Gemini and the Fifth Estate movies had scenes filmed here)

*️⃣Louvre Abu Dhabi

Architect #Nouvel #JeanNouvel #AJN
City #AbuDhabi
Country #UAE #ME

🔤Jean Nouvel sought inspiration for the concept of Louvre Abu Dhabi in traditional Arabic architectural culture. Taking a contextual approach to the site, Nouvel designed Louvre Abu Dhabi as a ‘museum city’ in the sea. Its contrasting series of white buildings take inspiration from the medina and low-lying Arab settlements. #context

The dome consists of eight different layers: four outer layers clad in stainless steel and four inner layers clad in aluminium separated by a steel frame five metres high.

The dome is supported by only four permanent piers, each 110 metres apart. These are hidden within the museum buildings to give the impression that the dome is floating.

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Colour #white #grey
Material #aluminium
Function #public #museum
Feature #onwater
Address: G9MX+G69 - Al Saadiyat Island - Cultural District - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
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pics by Luc Boegly & Sergio Grazia and #RolandHalbe
text by Archdaily

#bonus@simoderna (Now you see: Now you don't movie had a scene filmed here)

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*️⃣Vessel

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

🔤Influenced by the Indian stepwells of Rajasthan, formed from multitudes of stone staircases reaching down into the ground, the studio became interested in the mesmerizing visual effect of the repeating steps, flights and landings.

To create the continuous geometric pattern of the stepwell, the object had to be self-supporting – a discreet structural solution was required, which did not need additional columns and beams. This was resolved by inserting a steel spine between each pair of staircases, creating a natural division between ‘up’ and ‘down’.

The raw welded steel of this structure is exposed to give the object clarity and integrity, and the underside of the staircases is clad in a deep copper-toned metal, setting them apart from the surrounding architecture.

Forming a major free public attraction at the heart of this new district, Vessel represents an intention to create an extraordinary new kind of public legacy for New York.

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Colour #bronzen
Material #steel
Function #public #observation
Address: 20 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001, United States
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pics by #IwanBaan, architects and Getty Images
text by architects and Archdaily

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