Danish architecture firm BIG, along with Fugère Architectes, proposed a sloping green roofed design for the expansion of the the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. Unfortunately the stunning design was beat out by The Netherlands-based OMA.
Danish architecture firm BIG, along with Fugère Architectes, proposed a sloping green roofed design for the expansion of the the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. Unfortunately the stunning design was beat out by The Netherlands-based OMA. See more at Inhabitat
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i like this one better, too. as my partner always says: 'save it, we'll build it someday for someone else.'
'save it, we'll build it someday for someone else.'
Is your partner Joshua Prince-Ramus?
no, but i'll have to tell him you noticed the similarity. ; )
BIG is doing some really impressive, creative work - much more successful than OMA's entry...
Fan fare around BIG... What makes this posted on here as opposed to other proposals for the same competition?
@ simples they do seem to have a way of feeling less "OMA" all the time. More playfullnes and less serious rigor. Although BIG shares OMA process for arriving at the design. They somehow make the rigor of program analysis more fun.
Sloping green roofs...
once built...
these are never accessible anyways. (FOA Yokohama, FOA in Istanbul, etc..)
And it seems this one is way too steep to be of any use.
Even tough I am a BIG fan of BIG this entry looks more like a sunking Titanic!
foa yokohama is accessible and brilliant. i have been many times and can attest is a remarkable design in all kinds of ways.
no comment about big.
we say the same thing ourselves steven. i think it is normal architectural posture isn't it? ramus just says it with a tighter shirt ;-)
Ahhh 18x32 you beat me to it! Primary shapes in wacky positions with green sloping or terraced roofs. All I‘m missing is Bjarke Ingels shouting at me about how the client's seemingly impossible design brief called for such an "inventive" solution.
i don't give much credence to the walkable roof, either. as gotan notes, it's too steep. that just gave inhabitat a reason to pick it up. (it also doesn't look terribly vegetated as illustrated - more like planks?)
still a fun project, and one i want to see someday. true, these things start to look familiar as they get published. that's part of selling: i'm for bjarke keeping up the pressure, putting 'em out there, 'til he gets more of these projects built.
it's no good treating it like old news if it only exists in print and bits.
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