Saturday, November 17, 2012

1000 x ARCHITECTURE OF THE AMERICAS -- PART 3

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1000 FULL COLOR PAGES OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN THE AMERICAS

Arquiteconica’s The Bronx Museum of the Arts Expansion, North Wing, is described as:

“The three-story, 16,700 square-foot museum addition emerges from the sidewalk as an irregular folded screen made of fritted glass and metallic panels.”

“The diagonal components emphasize the depth of crevices, where the resulting vertical zones of metal and glass, angle and twist like and architectural origami.”

“Pedestrians can sneak a peek into the ground floor gallery through the slivers of semitransparent glass that face them as they approach from either direction.”

“The design dramatizes the vertical dimension of the otherwise modest structure, turning it into an unexpectedly monumental surface.”

Book review of 1000 x Architecture of the Americas
continues tomorrow, November 16

The book sells for $125.
http://www.braun-publishing.ch






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