Wednesday 27 August 2008
SB2006 - Shigeru Ban's Paper House
Shigeru Ban's "Paper House (2006)" @ Singapore Management University
Ban is an architect known for experimental innovations in structure and materials and is especially known for his 'paper architecture'. The Paper House is a made with a simple recycled-paper tube structure and serves as the information centre of the Singapore Biennale. This office will last for about 3 months and afterwards, the major components of this bldg will be recycled.
Ban is an architect known for experimental innovations in structure and materials and is especially known for his 'paper architecture'. The Paper House is a made with a simple recycled-paper tube structure and serves as the information centre of the Singapore Biennale. This office will last for about 3 months and afterwards, the major components of this bldg will be recycled.
Vertical Garden
Vertical landscaping inside Siam Paragon shopping centre, designed by Patrick Blanc the renowed tropical botanist from France. Other notable works by Blanc include the vegetal walls outside Musée du Quai Branly and the French Ministry of Culture in Paris.
more info: archiguide.free.fr/AR/blanc.htm
www.pingmag.jp/2006/12/08/vertical-garden-the-art-of-orga...
more info: archiguide.free.fr/AR/blanc.htm
www.pingmag.jp/2006/12/08/vertical-garden-the-art-of-orga...
Caixa Forum art exhibition Madrid
CaixaForum is the new headquarter of the cultural centre of the "la Caixa" Foundation in Madrid, opposite the Prado, a new building designed for all kinds of audiences offering a broad range of cultural, social and educational activities designed for learning and having fun at the same time. The new Cultural Centre has 4,000 square metres of space devoted to exhibition galleries, an auditorium with seating for 400 people and a thoroughly modernised media library/library.
The Caixa Forum extends the brick shell of the former Mediodía power station to house a new entrance lobby, café, galleries, restaurant and administrative offices.
Project is by Herzog & de Meuron (also known for the newOlympic Stadium in Beijing). The spectacular vertical Garden is by Patrick Blanc.
The project extends underground to contain a theatre, service rooms and parking, and includes a 650sq m public space created by demolishing a gas station.
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The Caixa Forum extends the brick shell of the former Mediodía power station to house a new entrance lobby, café, galleries, restaurant and administrative offices.
Project is by Herzog & de Meuron (also known for the newOlympic Stadium in Beijing). The spectacular vertical Garden is by Patrick Blanc.
The project extends underground to contain a theatre, service rooms and parking, and includes a 650sq m public space created by demolishing a gas station.
Comments
Jardín Vertical
Jardín Vertical
La fotografía no hace justicia a la espectacularidad
del jardín vertical de Caixa Forum de Madrid.
De fotografie doet geen recht aan de prachtige
verticale tuin bij Caixa Forum, Madrid.
The picture doesn't quite capture all the beauty of
the vertical garden at Caixa Forum, Madrid.
La fotografía no hace justicia a la espectacularidad
del jardín vertical de Caixa Forum de Madrid.
De fotografie doet geen recht aan de prachtige
verticale tuin bij Caixa Forum, Madrid.
The picture doesn't quite capture all the beauty of
the vertical garden at Caixa Forum, Madrid.
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