*️⃣National Taichung Theatre / Metropolitan Opera House

Architect #Ito #ToyoIto
City #Taichung
Country #Taiwan #AP

🔤The opera house features a series of hourglass wells in its facade, which are filled with gridded glazing to frame views of the city from terraces within. Inside, cavernous hollows based on bodily orifices contain stairwells, lobbies and auditoria. Bright white walls are offset by areas of bright red carpeting and paintwork.

"I aimed to create the architecture of this opera house in such a way that the inside and outside are continuous in a like manner to how bodies are connected to nature through organs such as the mouth, nose, and ears," explained Toyo Ito.

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Colour #white
Material #shotcrete
Function #entertainment #theatre #concerthall
Feature #interior
Address: No. 101號, Section 2, Huilai Rd, Xitun District, Taichung City, Taiwan 407025

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pics by #IwanBaan
text by Dezeen

*️⃣Viceroy Los Cabos (ex. Mar Adentro)

Architect #Aragones #MiguelAragones
City #SanJoseDelCabo
Country #Mexico #NA

🔤"The first time I visited this property and took in the desert and the diaphanous, clear water running along a horizontal line in the background, I felt the enormous drive of water under a scorching sun. This piece of land, located in the middle of a coastline dotted with “All Inclusives,” would have to be transformed into a box that contained its own sea –practically its own air– given the happy circumstance that the universe had created a desert joined to the sea along a horizontal line. It was the purest, most minimalist landscape a horizon could have drawn. On either side, this dreamlike scenery collided with what humans consider to be aesthetic and build and baptize as architecture."

Mar Adentro is a kind of Medina that opens out onto the sea. Each floating volume contains interiors that form, in turn, independent universes. Each room visually contains a piece of the sea; no one can resist gazing out at it.

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Colour #white
Function #hospitality #hotel
Feature #water
Address: P.º Malecon San Jose Lote 8, Zona Hotelera, 23405 San José del Cabo, B.C.S., Mexico
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pics by Joe Fletcher
text by Archdaily

#bonus@simoderna (the Westworld show had scenes filmed here)

*️⃣Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center

Architect #Gehry #FrankGehry
City #LasVegas
Country #USA #NA

🔤After years of refusing to design a building in Las Vegas, Gehry agreed to design the cleveland clinic Lou Ruvo center after forming a bond with founder Larry Ruvo, a Las Vegas liquor distributor who was compelled to start a neurological research facility after watching his father, Lou, struggle with alzheimer’s.

The ensemble will include concrete buildings of research laboratories and hospital wards connected by glazed intermediate rooms. This juxtaposition should embody the dual essence of brain activity - both ordered and chaotic.

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Colour #metallic
Material #steel
Function #health
Address: 888 W Bonneville Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89106, United States

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pics by #IwanBaan
text by Archi.ru and Iwan Baan

*️⃣NTU Library

Architect #Ito #ToyoIto
City #Taipei
Country #Taiwan #AP

🔤Columns dominate the library in Taipei, a single-story structure designed in tandem with an eight-story building directly behind it. The taller building holds teaching facilities and forms the fourth side of an enclosed courtyard whose centerpiece is the jewel-like library.

Supporting the vertical load, the reinforced-concrete columns are arranged using a double-spiral algorithm. “Usually columns are organized with an orthogonal grid, but here we wanted a more natural way,” explains Ito.

So the column plan propagates from three centers in the ground plane. Two sets of curved lines extend outward in opposite directions, as if tracing the petals of a lotus flower.

Ito placed columns at their cross points. As the lines spin outward, the distance between intersections grows, and the concentration of columns disperses, creating pockets of open space reminiscent of clearings in a forest.

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Colour #white
Material #concrete
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: No. 1號, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10617
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pics by #IwanBaan
text by Architectural record

*️⃣Minna No Mori / Gifu Media Cosmos community center

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

🔤Internally, the scheme is defined by large funnels in the roof plane that define various reading, resting and study zones. These curved globes are made from three-dimensional polyester shades that allow light to filter down into the spaces below.

The arrangement of furniture is also placed in circular formations, further emphasizing the helical nature of the plan

Designed to integrate sustainable technologies, the roof canopy is a composition of latticed wood, with interstitial openings allowing natural light to flood the library below. The domes assist in this, not only providing visual interest with their shape, but also by ensuring that sunlight refracts at particular angles to disperse solar gain more evenly throughout the building. #sustainability

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Material #wood #textile
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: 40-5 Tsukasamachi, Gifu, 500-8076, Japan
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pics by #IwanBaan
text by DesignBoom