Architecture

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GO AHEAD, BUT IN A BATTY MODE

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Gaudi : Sagrada Familia

The chief architect working on the Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona yesterday condemned a plan to build a bullet-train tunnel less than two metres from Gaudi's unfinished masterpiece.

Backed by local civic groups, the advisers to Unesco in Spain, and architects and engineers from 50 universities around the world, Jordi Bonet i Armengol, who has worked on Gaudi's daring cathedral for 40 years, said yesterday: "I am astounded by this brutality. This is an attack on culture of the highest order, something one would only expect of a third-world country."

In a protest letter, an engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called the railway plan a "thoughtless act of vandalism", while the president of the cathedral board of directors, Joan Rigol, said it was "the kiss of death".
Last week, the mayor of Barcelona, the Catalan premier and the public works ministry approved the plan, which awaits an environmental impact review by the national government, according to a city spokesman.

The city of Barcelona wants to build the rail tunnel to provide a high-speed link between Madrid and Barcelona, and on to France.

The mayor, Jordi Hereu, has promised the project will "meet the highest technical standards" to guarantee "the safety of the surroundings".

However, during an emotional press conference yesterday, Mr Bonet outlined what he sees as the dangers to the cathedral's foundation and structure.

He also attacked the "arrogance" of the civil engineers working on the project. He said they had assured him that, with modern building materials, the daring architectural feat Gaudi began 120 years ago would be safe.

"They also said the Titanic couldn't sink," he said yesterday.

Mr Bonet said the building, a Unesco world heritage site visited by about 10,000 people a day, was threatened initially by the construction of an underground protective barrier, which begins less than two metres (7ft) from the building's foundations. Any accidental contact during the project could cause cracks in the foundations. Eventually, chunks of the vaulted ceiling could fall on someone, he said.

The construction of the tunnel, which would pass below the water level only 10 metres beneath the 20,000-tonne cathedral, could cause the ground to shift or compress, destabilising the building, he added.

"The whole thing could crack and it would start to crumble," he said.

The Spanish branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos), which advises Unesco, has launched a campaign to block the plan. It has sent letters and reports to local and national authorities, said the Icomos spokeswoman in Spain, María Rosa Suárez-Inclán. "They are just laughing in the face of international conventions on world heritage," she said.

The high-speed Ave line is expected to link Madrid and Barcelona by 2007. The tunnel to France is due to be completed by 2009.

Fears for Gaudi masterpiece as rail tunnel approved

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I like this architect, his style could appear in a constructive way by Frank O Gehry.. the curves, interrelation between masses and materials.

La Casa Mila For Gaudi Is Magnificent .



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Antoni Gaudi (1853-1923)
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La Casa Milà (Maison Milà en catalan) est l'une des réalisations de l'architecte Antoni Gaudí à Barcelone. Elle figure sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. Elle est sise au 92, Passeig de Gràcia, au cœur de la principale extension urbaine de Barcelone, le quartier de l'Eixample.

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Casa Milà - Wikipédia

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Is that last one the walt disney concert hall? .... (this one)

[eyad]

Sure not.

as i mentioned b4 that, Gehry has designed a new guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi. and that one is the latest as i know, and as launched in media.



Emirats: 'Guggenheim Abu Dhabi' sur l'île du bonheur

Après New York, Bilbao, Berlin, Venise et Las Vegas, la Fondation Guggenheim va construire un Guggenheim sur l'île du bonheur au large de la capitale des Emirats arabes unis. Un musée où "toutes les oeuvres d'art exposées respecteront la culture et l'héritage national et islamique d'Abou Dhabi."


Guggenheim Abu Dhabi sur l'île du bonheur
C'est au large de la capitale des Emirats arabes unis que la Fondation Guggenheim, basée à New York, va construire un "Guggenheim Abu Dhabi" (GAD).

Le musée sera conçu par le célèbre architecte américain Frank Gehry, créateur du Guggenheim de Bilbao (Espagne), a annoncé le directeur de la Fondation Guggenheim, Thomas Krens, lors de la cérémonie de signature.

Il sera établi sur l'île naturelle de Saadiyat, ou l'île du bonheur, d'une surface de 27 km2 située à 500 mètres au large d'Abou Dhabi. Le GAD, dont la construction devrait durer cinq ans environ, s'étalera sur une surface de 30.000 m2, pour devenir ainsi le plus large des cinq autres musées de la Fondation Guggenheim au monde (New York, Bilbao, Berlin, Venise et Las Vegas)........Emirats: 'Guggenheim Abu Dhabi' sur l'île du bonheur



Guggenheim expands into Emirates
Architect Frank Gehry is to design the Guggenheim Foundation's largest museum in the United Arab Emirates.

The museum, which will cover 30,000 square metres, will be built in the capital city of Abu Dhabi.
Guggenheim's flagship museum for modern and contemporary art is in New York but there are branches in Bilbao, Berlin, Venice and Las Vegas.

US architect Gehry also designed the Bilbao Guggenheim in Spain. The Abu Dhabi museum should be built by 2011.
Construction is due to begin shortly on Saadiyat Island, which is being developed as the city's cultural district, government officials said.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Guggenheim expands into Emirates

More >>>>>>>> FRANCE 2 - Une île touristico-culturelle à Abou Dhabi - Art et expositions - France 2


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Sight of night of the Foundation Louis Vuitton for Creation. Illustration of Didier Ghislain, according to the project of Frank Gehry © Didier Ghislain/2006


Frank Gehry launches out in the haute couture. It is not really an innovation: its asymmetrical buildings, tangled up volumes and brilliant, concave and convex envelopes, have same extravagance as behaviours of fashion parade, elegant and déstructurées. Even shift, even provocation, even creativity: the buildings of Frank Gehry are also remarkable - in all the directions of the term - that of the Louis Vuitton. Demonstration in Paris in 2010, with the Foundation Louis Vuitton for Creation.

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Frank Gehry se lance dans la haute couture. Ce n'est pas vraiment une nouveauté : ses bâtiments asymétriques, volumes enchevêtrés et enveloppes brillantes, concaves et convexes, ont la même extravagance que des tenues de défilé de mode, élégantes et déstructurées. Même décalage, même provocation, même créativité : les bâtiments de Frank Gehry sont aussi remarquables - dans tous les sens du terme - que du Louis Vuitton. Démonstration à Paris en 2010, avec la Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création.

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[sakuracat]

Salam Eyad !

Thank you for your nice photographs so often. (*_*)
You show us architectures of Japan, don't you?
I 'm enjoying them all the time.
Does your specialty is architecture ?
Even so , thank you for sharing wonderful pictures.(^_^)