The urban park by BIG + TOPOTEK1 + SUPERFLEX conceived as a giant exhibition of urban best practice by incorporating everyday objects from more than 60 different cultures, constitutes a rare fusion of architecture, landscape and art.
:Art Work
Grindbakken
Belgian design collective Rotor interfered with the restoration of these disused dockside gravel pits to reveal traces of Ghent’s industrial past.
Carroll’s Alice in Archiland
“The system of an open book” consists of stone walls at right angles and the glass sheets of room tissue that stand in between the walls like fans. It is a house – a book. The scale of the walls: 200-100 fathoms and sights …
dOCUMENTA (13)
The architecture of the dOCUMENTA (13) utilises that which is already there – as authentically as possible. Kassel, largely destroyed in World War II, was rebuilt more or less from scratch in the mid-50s. This naturally presented something of a Herculean task, which speaks of the spirit of optimism present at the time. The curatorial guiding theme of “Destruction & Rebuilding“ is the thread which runs through the architectural realisation.
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