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venice’s historic caffè florian — the oldest one in italy and in the world — just celebrated its 300th birthday in a bitter way.
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the design draws influence from the sculptures of artist luo xu, and integrates a series of art deco elements to form its own unique identity.
a coconut leaf roof covers the entire ceiling.
the architects planted trees in the corner of both houses, allowing them to protrude outside the envelopes of the two dwellings.
Talk about a fish out of water!
Probably he didn’t understan we are not in Rotterdam ! ;))
it is not easy not to already start laughing on such things. it looks like attempt to beat record in competition labeled “design your skyscraper and plan a city around it in less than hours in team of maximum two people”. This one is ranking high! congratulations – well done!
plan a city an one-day city planning + skyscraper design”
I don’t think Mr. Libeskind has understood the spirit of a city like Rome – an almost tropical, colorful, sweet, extremile layered and extremely political epicenter.
I don’t see one single element in this project communicating with the identity of Rome. I don’t see any dialogues with the history of Rome or with the local area of the 1930s rationalist district EUR (first example of financial district ever built in a european city). I don’t see how these three towers relate to the river situated next to where this plan should be developed.
It’s a combination of lines, materials and colors that I struggle to believe they can become a symbol of Rome.
I hope improvements will be made in this project because the beauty of Rome doesn’t deserve such mediocre solutions. And for an architect it’s a missed chance to give to Rome(in 2015) three towers that look like three mobile phones from the 80s.