ARTPOST - Line Doc 2 by Andrew Yeung: August 2011

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Exterior view.
The ambitious project, the city of Hamburg has commissioned the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron is ongoing. Scheduled to open in 2012, the new Elbe Philharmonic audience has already lifted its top, which seems to float on an old warehouse building.
Elbphilharmonie is expected to be one of the best auditoriums in the world and remodeling project has inspired a wave of glass over 100 m high. The building, budgeted at 450 million euros, will be the focus of the refurbishment of the entire port area of Hamburg.

http://www.trendhomedesign.com/the-construction-of-elbe-philharmonic-herzog-de-meuron

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Project in Rio.

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Interior with skylite.

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A project in Rio.

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The skyline about 1111 Lincoln Road, designed by Herzog and de Meuron incorporates 300 parking spaces.

It is a labour of love. “This was about a moment in time in my life,” says Wennett. “For 20 years, I did things that were all about being commercial. Now I wanted to do something about legacy. About what I would leave.”

The car park will, to quote the official blurb, “further Miami’s international prominence as a 21st-century destination for art, commerce and culture”.

http://cubeme.com/blog/2010/11/15/herzog-de-meurons-car-park-in-miamis-lincoln-road/

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Prada store by Herzog & De Meuron, Tokyo.

Architecturally, the most outstanding store is that in Aoyama, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron. This store marked a new concept in what a retail building could be, a concept that Prada itself had started with its first Epicenter in New York’s Soho, designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Design.

http://retaildesignblog.net/2011/07/29/prada-store-by-herzog-de-meuron-tokyo/

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Prada Aoyama Epicenter, 2001 - 2003, Tokyo.

For more interior photos, try...http://retaildesignblog.net/2011/07/29/prada-store-by-herzog-de-meuron-tokyo/

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Gallery exterior.

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Exterior elevation.

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Exterior.

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Located in the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, in Germany, the building shares the site with works of famous architectural giants, such as the Zaha Hadid fire station, Tadao Ando conference pavilion, Frank Gehry Vitra Design museum and atelier, Alvaro Siza factory, Buckminster Fuller’s Dome.

With a strong concept behind it, the Vitra buiding makes a post modern interpretation of the traditional house archetype and is also an exercise of stacked volumes’ architecture. The concrete ‘tunnel house’ modules cantilever to all sides, fully glazed at the ends, allowing for panoramic views of the campus. Through the fluid curving of the module walls, an interesting dynamic is achieved on the inside and seating benches in wood veneer on the outside.

The inner spiral staircases uniting the levels make for fluid vertical inner spaces with intriguing perspectives, complemented by exquisite furniture and beautiful compositions of suspended light installations.

http://www.decoist.com/2011-02-25/vitra-house-architecture-gallery/

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This is about the Vitra House Architecture Gallery which is designed by the famous and talented Herzog & De Meuron Architects, the fantastic Vitra house is headquarters to a furniture and appliances company.

http://www.archithings.net/vitra-house-architecture-gallery-designed-by-herzog-de-meuron-architects

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Vitrahaus, takes inspiration from the typology of the houses in the locality. The concept is to connect Vitrahaus house theme with 2 levels of 12 structures, 5 houses at the bottom, and there are 7 houses on the other rested. Structure of the house has a 15 meters high. When during the day, the house will display the contents of the room in it, and when it got dark, the interior is lit Vitrahaus, the room will open, and the physical structure of the house was gone. The maximum dimensions Vitrahaus house has about 57 meters long, 21.3 meters wide, and the design is not made in the horizontal, but vertical, which can provide a view of interest around the house.

http://www.architeria.com/house-design/contemporary-vitrahaus-by-herzog-and-de-meuron-architects

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Herzog de Meuron Architects, Vitra Campus,Weilam Rhhein,Germany, 2010.

http://archidialog.com/2010/06/22/

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The following information is from the museum’s website:

‘The architects Herzog & de Meuron designed an unusual space for Schaulager. Their task was to design a warehouse for the open storage of contemporary art that had optimal climatic conditions and was available by appointment. The building was also intended to be a site for conservation, research and dissemination. Rather than an anonymous warehouse, the spacious building was to be conceived so as to produce a specific and unique place.

http://www.archicentral.com/schaulager-basel-switzerland-herzog-de-meuron-5782/

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Exterior view.

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Stacking slabs design proposal with Ai Weiwei for a new film school in northern part of China.
Now the new Tate Modern Tate 2 gets the same idea.
Applied in Tate Modern Tate 2: Herzog and de Meuron go gothic.

http://www.hughpearman.com/2006/25.html

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Interior view.

The sketches series was my second watercolour quick study while watching Jacques Herzog webcast at Yale, New College Theatre on 5 May 2011.

Project by project sketches are produced in single or multiple building collage in bold line sketches and coloured afterward.

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Side view.

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The mountain that divided the rich and poor.

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Plan view of the artist village.

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A corner detail.

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Gallery interior.

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2 rolls of elevations.

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The sketches series was my second watercolour quick study while watching Jacques Herzog webcast at Yale, New College Theatre on 5 May 2011.

Project by project sketches were produced in single or multiple building collage in bold line sketches and coloured afterward.

I also came across The Sunday Times Article on them...
"Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have just completed the world's most iconic building in this decade of iconic buildings, the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, which won the inaugural Design of the Year for Architecture award from the Design Museum yesterday. They've built the world's most famous and successful art gallery, Tate Modern, and, aged 57, built dozens more, including their latest, Caixa Forum, in Madrid.

Apart from football, there is only one subject that raises their ire: Beijing. Or, more specifically, the decision of Steven Spielberg last month to pull out of directing the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games this summer, citing China's human-rights record and involvement in the Darfur tragedy in Sudan.

“It's very cheap and easy for architects and artists and film-makers to pull out or to make this kind of criticism,” Herzog says. “Everybody knows what happens in China. All work conditions in China are not what you'd desire. But you wear a pullover made in China. It's easy to criticise, being far away. I'm tempted almost to say the opposite...How great it was to work in China and how much I believe that doing the stadium [and] the process of opening will change radically, transform, the society. Engagement is the best way of moving in the right direction.”

“It would be arrogant not to engage,” de Meuron adds. “Otherwise no politicians could go there, no athletes. You would just close the borders.” (and more... read full article in...link below.)

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article3530263.ece

Sketch of Sketches of Frank Gehry film - 15

The picture frame on the side table Frank Gehry's mentor.

Sketches of Frank Gehry is a 2005 American documentary film directed by Sydney Pollack and produced by Ultan Guilfoyle, about the life and work of the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The film was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] Pollack and Gehry had been friends and mutual admirers for years. The film features footage of various Gehry-designed buildings, including a hockey arena for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The film includes interviews with other noted figures, including the following: