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the 150 year-old art nouveau icon is scheduled to open by the end of may after over 15 years of construction.
the interior design juxtaposes existing historical features of the building with clean, contemporary lines.
the house is designed to resemble a large piece of a tree trunk.
'the difficult part in moving a city is to preserve its sense of belonging, the history and the soul of the community,' says alexandra hagen, CEO of white arkitekter.
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and what’s with those stairs all around little kids…??? Stairs and kids won’t come along well… I can see where they were going with it though but still not there…
looks like a clinic, where are the trees? the real lawn? colors alone do not make a kindergarden
Very cool and modern. Yet the buildings that support the school are empty. Another waste of money spent by China with no local population or employment opportunities to support their “HUGE” projects.
Life is not a video game…
It´s a Cake.
Wow! That is really a space-efficient way to give city-kids a fitting environment to play and learn in. Imo, this should be the model way to build kindergartens in dense urban areas.
By default, most kids love warmth and concealment. LOOP radiates the opposite, a constructed take on shallow endlessness. One thing I’ve learned from sending three kids to kindergarden myself during the past 14 years is that reflective surfaces and high frequencies don’t go well with each other. I truely hope – for the kids and educators of Tianjin – that a major investment in sound absorbing fabrics, carpets and plants will have top priority on the to-do list.