Domus #1091
"The Architecture section highlights recently completed projects in China, the United States, India, and Australia. Julian Worrall examines Junya Ishigami + Associates’ first project in China, the Zaishui Art Museum, which envisions a new relationship between architecture and nature through its connection with a water landscape. Also in China, Line+ Studio’s Yunhai Forest Service Station in Shenzhen is described by Guanghui Ding as a stage for viewing the landscape, while also showcasing the media potential of architecture. Alessandro Benetti discusses Rex’s Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), the last public building planned in the 2004 master plan for the World Trade Center site in New York: a precious box of Portuguese marble concealing a machinist exuberance. Wanli Mo examines the radical renovation of Shanghai’s Book City by Wutopia Lab, emphasizing an experiential dimension with large open spaces and areas for public activities. Laura Ragazzola explores The Opera Park in Copenhagen, an abandoned area transformed by Cobe into a green, biodiverse urban oasis for recreation and relaxation. In India, near Bangalore, A Threshold has created a community center that starts with local materials and knowledge. Here, Shaikh Ayaz writes, the designers “wanted to explore the social potential of architecture – above all, the notion that design should be an extension of nature rather than an evil force that dominates it.” Meanwhile, in Melbourne, Tadao Ando’s MPavilion 10, as described by Urtzi Grau and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, is the latest addition to a series of transient structures commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, now extended in lifespan until 2025."
- 25x32cm
- English
- 2024