New metropolitan architecture
New Angel of Islington
Art and commercial spaces can actually go along very well? Wolfgang and Heron designed in Islington, London a sculpture which guards the main entrance of the N1 retail plaza. Delicate steel wings spread above a flat cylinder which seems to close in its own shell, leaving only a faint crack for light to come in. […]
New photos of ROM
New photos of Libeskind’s Royal Ontario Museum. It looks as interesting as expected, or maybe even more. The building will be inaugurated in June 2007. The initial article here.
A new building from Zaha Hadid
Always a distinctive presence, Zaha Hadid created a new interesting building, this time in Montpellier, France. Herault Culture Sport is a multifunctional construction resembling with the trunk of a tree, laid horizontally. Unified within a single envelope, the three institutions are still clearly defined as distinct functions. The archive is located at the base of […]
Royal Ontario Museum extension
The Royal Ontario Museum is a learning and exhibition centre as well as an important educational facility for many schools in and around Toronto. It consists of several buildings constructed between the 1920s and the 1980s, and in the summer of 2007, a new building extension will be completed. Designed by Daniel Libeskind this is […]
National Assembly for Wales
A little bell shape going out from an impressive roof, comes cascading into a dramatic form, looking like the trunk of a tree which supports the roof and guides the eye to the lower levels. Here you can find a public space that lets everyone have a glance on what’s going on in The Debating […]
Glass bubbles house
It’s a small apartment building and it’s almost all covered in glass bubbles. It consists of 13 apartments divided in two blocks, connected on each floor by an atrium. In front of the reinforced concrete structural core, 7,900 blown glass spheres form the playful design of this building. The green glass bubbles are all handmade […]
