The Box
“People react to architecture in stylistic terms, but making architecture has to do with the invention of something that contains its own power and beauty – its own authenticity. Laying a few things on top of each other isn’t enough.” (from an interview with Eric Owen Moss). “The Box” was just another arouse for the architect. Sitting on top of a refurbished warehouse (dating back from 1920), it was intended to become an identifiable architectural element as well as part of the construction below. Suggesting its structural link with the warehouse, The Box supports itself in the wood structure underneath, but pops up like some living creature looking up, to the sky. The lowest and the highest corners are cut, leaving interesting views towards Culver City. Still I can’t help wondering if this is not a way of suggesting, in the same time, it’s attachment and detachment to the main building.
The construction was initially planned to host a restaurant but the investor considered it would be more appropriate as an office building (considering the emerging technical industry that was developing in the area). With a surface of 12.240 mp, The Box, now accommodates a private conference room.
Master Moss is right. Design a building it´s much more than that. The entire world is turning to something better. From this era on, architecture will experience a great change!
A lot of people are working to make the change for real…
The box, an incredible piece of work that impulse this changes. Moss, Prix, Mayne, Hadid… the list is getting bigger.
Great page!
Santiago.