Next Saturday at 5 p.m., after a week of member previews, the 35-year-old Aspen Art Museum in Colorado will open the doors of its new building to the public and then keep them open for a 24-hour celebration.
There is much to celebrate. The four-story building is the first American museum designed by the innovative Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
— nytimes.com
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That building just says, "Aspen" to me.
Aw, not enough curves for you?
It's not the lack of curves but the mind numbing grid that covers the whole building. Now there's an original idea.
yeah, I hate wood!
How do you suppose that the "woven wood screen" will look after a few winters in Colorado's notorious freeze-thaw?
it will look like Aspen.
Great project, beautiful design, those who fetishize software may not appreciate it but architecture is done with the fetishizing
nice!
I think the double envelope idea will be quite evocative. I think the rendering is tricky - from how thick/thin those wooden strips are (which is not really captured by the rendering), passing through to exactly what the 'contained' mass looks like formally and materially ...to the extent of that visual interplay between the outer envelope and interior mass ...allthese are difficult to judge from this rendering. It might be the case that the grid won't be overpowering. So far, so curious. This conceptual play seems more HdeM than Shigeru Ban, whose structures put themselves on display (something Calatrava does for instance, or one of the famous archi-engineers ..although very differently).
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