The New Aesthetic
“The former facade is left orphaned from the rest of the built environment, large metal pins carefully holding it at arm’s length from the new building. Its windows are not only blank and empty, but out of kilter with those added behind.” Caroline’s Miscellany: London’s ugliest example of facadism?
GEOMETRISK
caixa forum - herzog & de meuron - Madrid The CaixaForum arts centre, which opened earlier this year in Madrid, Spain, incorporates walls from a power station that previously occupied the site. It includes galleries, administrative offices and a restaurant in the upper levels, as well as an auditorium below ground level.