Architecture

[Bent_Bladi]

dude, those UAE buildings are really nice....

mashaAllah

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what about the latest buildings in ur region??
post & c wtsup !!! ok?

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Massimiliano_Fuksas


Massimiliano Fuksas is an Italian architect, born
in Rome in 1944. He received his degree in Architecture from
the La Sapienza University in 1969 in Rome, where he opened
his first office. Subsequent offices were opened in Paris (1989)
and Vienna (1993). From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of
the urban commissions of Berlin and of Salzburg. For many
years has dedicated his special attention to the study of urban
problems and in particular to the suburbs.

He is visiting professor at several universities, including the
École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, France and Columbia
University, New York, USA.




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MAIN WORKS

* School at Anagni;
* University at Brest and Limoges, France;
* "Flora Tristan" University complex in Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France;
* "Maison des Arts" in Bordeaux, France
* "Europarc" Commercial complex in Salzburg, Austria;
* Vienna Twin Tower Vienna, Austria;
* PalaLottomatica in Rome, (1999 - 2003);
* Research Centre for Ferrari, Maranello, Italy;
* FieraMilano exhibition complex, Rho, near Milan, (2005)[1];
* Centro Congressi Italia in EUR district of Rome.
* Urban master plan "FrankfurtHochVier" in Frankfurt, Germany (2008)
* "Le Bolle" Pavilion for Nardini, Bassano del Grappa, Italy (2004)
* New Exhibition Hall, Porta Palazzo district, Turin, Italy

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One Work
ZOOM







This month the latest Zenith music hall of France opened in Strasbourg, designed by the Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas. With 14.000 square meters and 12.000 seats it is the biggest Zenith music hall yet.

Since 1984 the state of France is building these big box music theaters throughout the country, to facilitate rock concerts and other big cultural events. OMA already incorporated a Zenith music hall in their Congrexpo building in Lille in the nineties. And Foster + Partners is currently working on one too.

It’s the skin that sets this latest Zenith apart. The material, a
textile membrane, makes the building a bit like a tent, but in its
materialization it fortunately goes beyond that. The membrane
gets its form by five steel bars that go all around the façade.
Like five hula-hoops. The bars tension the membrane, so that
between the hula-hoops the textile shortens
to create four extra folds.

Very like hula-hoops the bars circle the oval concrete box - that
contains the actual music hall - differently to each side. To
create a ‘front’ the façade cantilevers, to create a ‘back’ the
façade straightens. A very basic form-language that gives the
technically all-sided object a simple direction and readability.






At daytime the membrane is just very orange, but at night the
building lightens up like a big lantern showing the ant-like
supporting structure of the façade and will eventually display
projected images, video or text of what’s going on inside. Like a
huge billboard, the architect writes, or a giant light sculpture.


In the end it is big architecture that enhances its bigness by
adding cheap volume. The thin membrane just adds cheap
foyer-space: no weight or monumentality, just air.


In contrast to the Bigness Rem Koolhaas has written about in
S,M,L,XL, the bigness of shopping malls and massive building
complexes in which the façade is too far from the center of the
building to be representational, there is a new bigness emerging
that is actually representational in the sense that it further
enlarges its bigness with extra non-functional space to create a
coherent form that is highly visible in the city. This is the
bigness of the iconic building. The new monumentality is air.





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Fuksas Main Page

MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS

Massimiliano Fuksas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Jean Nouvel lauréat de la future tour Signal de La Défense





La future tour Signal de la Défense sera signée par
Jean Nouvel, a décidé, lundi 26 mai, le jury du
concours organisé par l'Etablissement public de la
Défense (EPAD), a-t-on appris mardi. C'est un projet
marqué par l'essentiel des préoccupations du récent
Grenelle de l'environnement. Arrivera-t-il pour autant à
faire pâlir l'aura de la future tour Phare, que
l'architecte américain Tom Mayne (agence Morphosis)
doit construire près du CNIT pour le groupe Unibail, et
dont le concours a marqué, par son audace formelle et
une ambition écologique affichée, le renouveau du
quartier financier de l'Ouest parisien ? C'est l'un des
buts de l'EPAD : la nouvelle tour doit être l'emblème
du "renouveau" de la Défense, dont le plan a été
lancé en 2006 par Nicolas Sarkozy et repris par son
successeur à la tête du conseil général des Hauts-
de-Seine, Patrick Devedjian.


Le plan Sarkozy, qui, selon une tradition bien ancrée
depuis 1958, avait été précédé par la prolongation de
cinq ans de l'Etablissement public, prévoyait de bâtir
ou de remplacer des bâtiments obsolètes, ce qui créait
450 000 m2 de bureaux de plus et 100 000m2 de
logements.


Cette ambition et les problèmes soulevés par le
Grenelle de l'environnement ainsi que l'explosion du
cours des matières premières et de l'énergie ont
conduit l'EPAD à demander aux concurrents de réfléchir
autant que possible à trois points : qualité
environnementale, développement durable et mixité
de l'édifice (50 % seulement seront occupés par des
bureaux). Au-delà des réponses apportées par le
lauréat, l'écho de ces questions devrait s'amplifier d'ici
à l'achèvement de la tour (comme des autres tours de
la Défense dont la construction démarre). Pour s'en
convaincre, il suffit de lire le rapport remis par Hélène
Jourda lors du Grenelle vert, et les interrogations de
plus en plus vives des acteurs actuels de l'urbanisme.


Bernard Bled, directeur de l'EPAD, s'il a des réponses
toutes prêtes, ne cache pas ses interrogations sur
Signal comme sur l'avenir du quartier. Il est presque
intarissable sur les normes américaines (LEED) ou
anglaises (Breeam) à remplir par les concurrents,
critère inhabituel dans un concours d'architecture, du
moins en France.


création : le blog de la création: Jean Nouvel lauréat de la future tour Signal de La Défense





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Tour Signal de Force



In an effort to revitalize the La Défense neighborhood
of Paris, this winning design by Ateliers Jean Nouvel,
was selected over dozens of other firms. This 71 floor
tower will include office, hotel, residential and retail
spaces. Heralded as “sustainable architecture”, this
design is basically made up of four blocks piled one
on top of the other with atriums forming huge windows,
each facing in alternate directions. These atriums,
though beautiful in their design are essentially really
big empty indoor spaces that need to be filled with
very nature unfriendly Air Conditioning! Vive le
contradición!













Tour Signal de Force » Yanko Design

[Bent_Bladi]

what about the latest buildings in ur region??
post & c wtsup !!! ok?

lol the only updates on building in my region is the house across the street that's adding an extra floor .............. i need to go to downtown =/

[eyad]

i c,
what about someone adding a balcony !!!

lets just watch whats happening just in Dubai..

just like, "Creating Cities In A City "

[Bent_Bladi]

haha i wish we would build a balcony... they're excellent -- for drinking shai and playing cards and....... long phone calls