If you look closely you can see that the majority of the building is actually underground and you can see a hallway leading to the right. I'm guessing that the entrance is floor down and you can't actually get near the glass part.
You're right sir.
If you look closely you can see that the majority of the building is actually underground and you can see a hallway leading to the right. I'm guessing that the entrance is floor down and you can't actually get near the glass part.
An all glass building in an active seismic zone...
How do you get inside? Ha.
They need make to it thinner.
i like the big icon on top and that the glass has no breaks in it. This seems like an improvement over the cube in New York. I wonder if they will retrofit NY to this design.
"Clear glazed single panel walls with no connections to distract the eye, 10m long by 3m high on four sides, provide an efficient structural form capable of resisting seismic loads, while providing total transparency and architectural purity. The lightweight ultra-thin roof made of CFRP panels (carbon fibre reinforced plastic) seamlessly joined on site, provides a completely smooth uniform soffit while also improving the seismic performance of the whole structure." - istructe.org
Seismic load isn't equal to seismic activity...
I do like the look of it but come on an award for a glass box...
Like what someone else said, I like it when they do up old buildings.
I think you should contact the architects / engineering firm right away to notify them of their terrible oversight.
I do wonder if/how that roof is insulated however. I'd love to see construction details.
Shame so much focus is on the architecture on the retail outlets instead of the architecture of their software. Would iOS 8 receive a similar award for design excellence? I don't think so .....
This isn't an award for a renovation.
You can't build this. Neither can the team that built your house. It's special. That's why it won, deservedly.
Seismic load isn't equal to seismic activity...
Cold, sterile, uninviting.
Echoing others' comments, I do love it when they put the stores in old buildings like Covent Gardens and Paris Opéra.
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Beautiful Yes.Wow, that is beautiful looking - amazing.
I do like the look of it but come on an award for a glass box...
Like what someone else said, I like it when they do up old buildings.
Beautiful Yes.
But, How the heck do you get in?
Wow, that was intense considering I spoke not of the award. I also get bored with Jay-Z , he's special, and he wins awards (deservedly or not).
If you didn't see what I did there, he does the same things over and over a little bit different with larger and larger budgets and wins awards.