Some Cool Projects from the EXPO 2010, SHANGHAI

giugliani — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:10:16 +0000

Since 1851 the world meets regularly in the great Universal Exposition. London was the first to show itself to the world when built his famous "Crystal Palace", a huge area covered by steel and glass that houses the stands of many countries. From then on I remember the Tour Eiffel (1889), the German Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona (1929), the Portuguese pavilion by Alvaro Siza (1998), among many other unique projects.

Now is time for we to focus in Shanghai, at the Expo 2010. Most of the Countries around the world have their projects done and the work has now begun. As I can tell you, we are going to be able to see everything from stunning works until the most bizarre constructions. However, most of information you can find on internet is contradictory, then I have decided to make a compilation for you, including most of the projects I could find, give a look and judge for yourselves!
(If you know about any other project that is not on our list and you wish to share, send it to us and we will publish on our next post!)

Enjoy!

Masterplan

Germany

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Chile

China

Korea

Denmark

United Arab Emirates

Spain

France

India

Ireland

Israel

Luxemburg

Macau

Norway

New Zeland

Finland

Italy

Poland

Czech Republic

Romania

Russia

Singapore

Sweden

Swiss

Taiwan

Shanghai Corporate Pavilion

United Kingdom

USA

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Hey! I´m Bruno Giugliani, architect. My thoughts here will go thru everywhere slightly related with architecture! Interests me every way a design can communicate or evokes people’s perceptions. Hope you enjoy it. you can follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/giugliani

Peter Zumthor, Pritzker Architectural Award 2009

giugliani — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:49:32 +0000

On the 29th of May, in Buenos Aires, the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is going be awarded with the Pritzker Architectural Award 2009. Although incredibly not very known among architects, mainly outside the circuit Europe/USA, Zumthor is responsible for a consistent career showing great sensibility for human aspects in architecture.

Born in Basel, 1943, he was son of a cabinet-maker and since very early he kept contact with his father’s work. He graduated as an Architect in the Pratt Institute in New York during the 60’s, and acted as a professor in Harvard Graduate School of Design and in the Università della Italian Svizzera, among others schools. Currently, Zumthor keep developing projects in his own studio, established in 1979, in the city of Haldenstein, Switzerland.

For the most curious ones, a small book, Thinking Architecture (Birkhause, 2006), pretty much summarizes in an accessible way the aesthetic and critical thought of the architect. It´s about 90 pages written in a very uncompromised way, where the author stands place on key questions for architecture. This fragment from the text express very much Zumthor’s thought about architecture:

“The design process is based on a Constant interplay of feeling and reason. The feelings, preferences, longings, and desires that emerge and demand to be given a form must be controlled by critical powers of reasoning, but it is our feelings that tell us whether abstract considerations really ring true.”

I believe that the great majority of you are going to agree with me that a building can just be called architecture in fact when exceeds the simple resolution of problems. In Peter Zumthor‘s projects it is impressive how such materials as rock, concrete and glass can be rearranged in order to achieve our feelings and evoke our memory. Perhaps this is an example for us to enrich our contemporary architecture, so much stubborn for the image, by expanding our perception through other kind o sensations as smeling, touching, hearing…

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