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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Notable Architecture 3


http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=13660

$75m USD theatre complex opens this week

The Grand Canal Square Theatre in Dublin is classic Daniel Libeskind: brave, full of life, dramatic lines and striking colour. It will no doubt immediately become a major landmark in the Irish capital. The 2,000- seat performance venue is the core of a wider, mixed-use complex comprising a pair of eight-floor commercial blocks, five-star hotel and residential block.


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  1. FE - are you familiar with Claude Parent?

    I was not, but there was a special exhibit of his work at the Cite Museum in Paris that I went to see.

    Very impressive life's work.

    Starts off with these rectalinear designs, many single family dwellings, with mixed use of materials - steel frame, stone, concrete, lots of glass. Evolves to this angular approach, then to this Le Corbusier chunky amorphous style and eventually to these elaborate sketches of megastructures...

    Here are some links

    Images from the exhibit

    NY Times Review of the Paris Exhibit

    Sketches of MegaStructures

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