Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the competition for the new Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) on the Avenida Atlantica at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. The new museum will house rooms for permanent and temporary exhibitions, facilities for research, a panoramic restaurant, an open-air auditorium and others. Among the participants were international players like Daniel Libeskind and Shigeru Ban.
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i thought shigeru ban entry was most original and creative. i think dsr is getting increasingly mundane like libeskind became. ban's proposal would go beyond the trendy form making that would go stale a few years later.
I agree. DS+R may be the most overrated top-tier architects practicing today (libeskind excluded).
it's Eyebeam's angular cousin!
we always joke around the office that you gotta keep doing it until you get to build it. more power to 'em.
i dont think the Sigeru ban entry looks original or creative at all. it looks like he is recycling his pompidou-metz "chinese hat" building and sticking it on upside down columns that frank lloyd wright did in 1937. not to mention its very unattractive too
It may not be great but some of those other entries were horrendous.
I love it. Eyebeam with inappropriate skin grafts. A witty cocktail party joke lampooning the single surface project. And far more interesting than the competitors.
wow, ds+r wins by default, some really awful entries, and nothing reference the fabulous views on the beach :)
"it's Eyebeam's angular cousin!" - dead on...
am i the only person who thinks it's interesting that the winner was the only design that somewhat maximized the views of the beach?!
i personally think Isay Weinfeld's entry (the stacked boxes) to be the most brazilian of the options...maybe copacabana beach could be the site for a regionalistic approach?
Wowsers - Libeskind's and Ban's are really bad.. The former looks like it came from a second year student and the latter looks like time-travelled here from the sixties.
This thing ain't so bad relatively speaking...
someone needs to save libeskind from himself.
simples - what is more 'brazilian' about that entry?
elimelech - pragmatically: the massing, the play of texture within the layers (ie. stacked boxes), the relationship with the context, overall, the vernacular...
conceptually (and i am reading into this, since i don't know much of the entry, but this is how i personally see it) - the volumes represent layers of the society in brazil, with the open plazas (assuming public) represent the sense of happiness and freedom that become singular within all classes...(todo mundo e' igual no carnaval)
or it could just be me, missing my homeland after too many years abroad!!!
Ugh...... architecture depresses me.
Without being privy to the complete competition boards, circulation plans, sections (what are those??), it seems hard to judge which one of the entries is worst--they share alot of DNA. So, if we were to critique from a painterly stance, (something I feel is gravely missing from most buildings) all of them look tectonically flat and unbalanced. None of them have the surreality and playfulness they purport. I feel like they all stand smack dab in the trendy wake of a society who has forgotten how to experience buildings, and who is obsessed with the image, or, in the parlance of our times, "the money shot".
Frankly put, all of them are goofy.
the libeskind one looks like something from saved by the bell
i must agree though, with the overall tone of the comments...all very underwhelming entries...
I like this a lot, there're many subtle things happening here, that you see if you pay attention to this and the other rendering on the bustler page, that show they've learned much since Eyebeam. This is actually pretty sophisticated.
But the other stuff - whoa.
Is that on the site of the infamous Discoteca Help?!
I never thought it would happen. Help R.I.P. Oh well.
There's some irony in a multimedia museum replacing what was already
quite a human spectacle...
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