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*Pixelpoort
bicycle tunnel in the Netherlands
*Chaussée de Waterloo in Brussels
*Alpha
Tomanu Towers in Hokkaido
*The
Performa Hub in the Cooper Union Building, NYC
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A close look at four buildings. Why? We have
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*Wedge1 by Mumbai-based Collaborative Architecture
*A
pet lovers sanctuary in Glasgow
*The
Tree of knowledge in Queensland, Australia
*Ninetree
Village in Hangzhou
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The
Natural Science Center in Bjerringbro, Denmark
by NORD Architects
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Gang of Four
Random New Works
The
architects in this story have nothing to do with
each other literally, at least to our knowledge.
The grouping is intentionally random. The idea
is to see what relationship four new buildings,
built by different authors in different countries,
might have to each other, and to evaluate them
individually in the context of parallel efforts
at making architecture. Naturally, it is not accidental
that all four designers are well-known names in
their own right, respected and widely watched.
The programmes of these buildings differ substantially;
one is a museum for things that are very old,
another is a museum for things that are new, a
third is a corporate office centre and the fourth
is a religious complex. Two of the buildings are
in Europe, one is in Israel and one is in China.
They are as different as one might expect of any
random assembly, yet also share certain qualities,
and each has been the object of scrutiny for students
and critics of architecture across a wide spectrum.
If one could measure the health, robust or not,
of architectural practice through the ‘pulse’
of four large building projects, these would be
the perfect test cases.
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