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This was filmed in 2002 but has just been posted now. It’s a video of a conversation with Frank Gehry, 78, at the TED conference. It ”touches on many topics, including the power of failure, the importance of collaboration, and the need for architects to bring personal expression to the table.” Click on the screenshot above to watch it.
Ahh refreshing. Still under realization this landscape project spreading over an area of 600m2 was built by the norwegian studio Jensen & Skodvin. ”The place gets several hundred thousand visitors every year, stopping on their way from the Geiranger fjord to Trollstigen. At the lay-by we have designed several smaller interventions; viewing platforms, bridges, a service center, and also a landscape hotel. The different interventions have related but independent architectural expressions.” You can view/download a .pdf of the project here and view/dll a brochure of the whole tourist route here. The brochure is in norwegian, but I figured since we all speak it, it shouldn’t be a problem.
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This is an animation of a project by Santiago Calatrava currently under construction in Liège, Belgium. Trafficwise the location couldn’t be better; its ”an indispensable link between London, Paris, Brussels and Germany”. For the benefits of the city of Liège it will connect the previously divided town into a whole. Steel construction and glass are extended 145 meters over the five platforms and its facade is a ‘’seamless interaction between the interior of the station and the city”. The walkways and the bridges make it easy for the pedestrian to cross and are linked with a vehicular access deck. Meanwhile, still in diapers, the Ljubljana station is still waiting to hit the ground as the wise men discuss it on the forums. Because that’s how REAL men do it, Belgium. You wait for 20 years until the old station breaks down under its own weight THEN you build a new one. Silly Belgians.
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”There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Jazz hands. :D
Goodnight:*
There’s not much information on this work of architecture available yet. Their website left me with nothing but question marks hovering above my head so I’ll post what I know. Sarugaku was built recently (?) by the Japanese studio of Akihisa Hirata in Tokyo and is basically commercial architecture/ retail building in Daikanyama, Tokyo. There :D For more photos of the project click clickidy CLICK here.
