The ceiling of a retail and leisure centre designed by Daniel Libeskind has collapsed for the second time in three years in the Swiss capital of Bern.
Two people were injured and one was treated for shock following the accident, which happened on April 12 in the swimming pool area of the city’s Westside centre.
— Building Design
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Know when your geometry is dirty.
...and one person was treated for nausea, not due to collapse though.
2 times in 3 years? Design flaw anyone?
all great architecture leak...
does this mean libeskind is a bad architect?
Wow, you'd figure after the first time..
would be helpful to know who was the AOR, EOR, and the backstory behind why the systems are failing... Is it a design flaw, installation flaw or system flaw?
I'm going to make the dangerous assumption that this was probably due to problems with humidity and chlorine from inadaquate ventilation.
I'm confused. The pool is in the ceiling of the room below, and that collapsed, or the reflective ceiling above the pool collapsed? I'm not familiar with the project.
the CNC screwed up on the parametric..."some one else will figure it out"
burningman,
Libeskind is not parametric....nor does he CNC
read a book.
moonunit: LOL, seriously.
And the tiny comic is quite cute too.
I can't tell if this is a picture of the roof before or after it collapsed
your new name is burningboy,
cause you have a lot of learning to do
Your new name should be Louis Kunt, you are what you are.
Listen, if you take the stair and the pool out the picture and rotated this building 90 degrees, you couldn't tell up from down, wall from ceiling.
i dont like libeskind, but its ignorant to call him parametric
I actually like some of his work at the beginning but it's overkill to force a vortex into all his designs. You should be able to tell where you are going in a building without a giant arrow literally built in. This perspective makes me feel like i'm in luge. It looks like the birth of parametrics.
These comments are hilarious.
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