References
Austrian Austerity
-On Heinz Tesar’s Donau City Church
FACTS:
Donaucity kirche, Donaucitystrasse 2, 22. Bezirk, Vienna(2000)
Architect: Heinz Tesar(1939)
Branding Bilbao
On Leggoretas Sheraton Hotel Bilbao
FACTS:
Architects: Leggoreta, TDM Arquitectos
Site: Abandoibarra, Bilbo
Built: 2000-2004
Boldness In Brick
Gehry’s MARTa Museum in Herford
MARTa opened in 2005
Soft Macho
- on Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar
Even by night the 145 meter high edifice can be experienced as a major attraction for this new part of the city. The inner core of concrete goes up to 110 meters above street level while the last 35 meters are covered by a glass and metal cupola.
The Fish Chapel
St.Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel by Matti Sanaksenaho
This seems to be the case with the most specific form of the large Viking houses, named ‘hogbacks’ by the British of those days, which has survived for thousand years primarily as archaeological foundations and tombstones just to be reinvented as a form fit for a chapel by the artistic Finnish architect Matti Sanaksenaho (born 1966).
Blind Folding
The Ordrupgaard Extension by Zaha Hadid.
FACTS
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects, London
Local advisors: PLH Architects
Client: Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs
Size of the addition 1150 square metres
Cost: 50 millions Danish crowns
Addition finished 2005
Beauty And The Industrial City
Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim/Bilbao
FACTS:
The museum opened in October 1997 and has become so great an attraction in Bilbao, that the city is about to establish a docking area for large cruise ships at the mouth of the river.
Metaphysics Of Light
Steven Holl’s Chapel of St. Ignatius
FACTS:
The chapel was initiated in 1997. Size: 540 square metres. Cost withheld by the client.
Experience Music Project
A sculptural masterpiece by Frank Gehry
FACTS: Built 1997-2000. Client: Paul Allen.
Price: 100 millions US $. Size: 12.000 square metres.
Dead End In Berlin
Libeskind’s Jewish museum
FACTS:The Jewish Museum has a gross area of 12,500 square meters, and opened in the spring of 2001.
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