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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.
Should be approved and designed for permanent installation. Fits right in contextually with the existing domed museums in the mall.
“Its Washington, Jake”
….politics
I love how they used something like a 20mm lens length in that last rendering, making the Hirshhorn courtyard look huge. Hilarious.
I think the overal design premise is very clever in several ways. In a city that is all about rules and regulations they create a structure that fills the gaps left between the rules – it’s temporary so it doesn’t need as many approvals, at 145′ it just barely squeaks under the city’s 150′ building height
limit. That quality of filling the gaps between the hard rules is translated into a tectonic strategy of an inflatable structure that fills the open space of the courtyard. Plus the Hirshhorn, which is such a singular buildingspatially and experientially on the mall seems to demand any addition be kinda weird too.
read the first line of the description before complaining about glass bubbles…diller scofidio + renfro is responsible for the design proposal of a 145 foot tall inflatable
meeting hall which richard kohsalek, the director of the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden,
plans to erect at the cultural institution. the large translucent fabric ‘bubble’ will swell out of the top
of the museum’s internal court yard, creating an air of lightness, making the building seem as if
it were ready to float upwards into the sky.
I like most of their work- the blur building especially, but not this one. +it will look totally different when built, but that’s the problem w/ all glass bulb structures. To be honest architects should use a mesh to show such glass structure not a shony glass. Or maybe you know any example proving else?
This is so much more interesting and skilful than the gehry monument to Eisenhower being built across the street.
I love this firm, and can’t wait for them to bring project to DC.