via designboom:
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) were named recipients of the 2010 Pritzker last year. For her latest project, Sejima has designed a community workshop space in the Shibaura district of Tokyo. Having been subject to massive redevelopment since the 1990s, the area, consisting largely of office buildings, has begun to take on a new face in recent years, attracting young professionals as well as families.
(txt by Omar Harb arch.) via skyscrapercity
Every city is remarkable, yet clearly some are more so than others, however Beirut is an exceptional urban phenomenon. The 486 MINA EL HOSN, the ‘mirror-tower’ designed by LAN Architecture, which is absolutely novel in concept: the building’s casing will reflect the city surrounding it. One will be able to see it from everywhere, and everywhere one’s view will bounce off its mobile surface into the surrounding city, showing Beirut in all its myriad facets. The building is a living, animated, changing entity. Behind this innovative technology lies a guiding idea: the impressive outline of 486 MINA EL HOSN, soaring above the skyline, will enable a kind of moving and poetic visual reconstitution of the city – a way of making Beirut itself, its light, diversity, districts and cultures, the tower’s very essence.
The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), suspended from two massive, red concrete bridges (leaving an open plaza below). Completed in 1968. Via Pedro Kok.
lina bo bardi rocks!
