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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