OMA / 重松象平が設計した、福岡の複合オフィスビル「天神ビジネスセンター」が完成。OMAの日本初のオフィスビルで、交差する二つの通りに面する建物ヴォリュームの角をピクセル化して削ることで都市活動の融合を明確にし、入口広場に公共の活動を呼び込むことが意図されました。詳細なクレジットは末尾に掲載します。
OMA / エレン・ヴァン・ルーン、レム・コールハースによる、ドイツ・ベルリンの老舗百貨店の改修「カーデーヴェー・ベルリン(KaDeWe Berlin)」の第一段階です。歴史ある建物を4つの象限に分割し“コアヴォイド”を挿入することで、デジタル革命以後の現代に適合した施設に再定義することが意図されました。
“A building that should address our own fragility.”
Meet the renowned Danish architect Dorte Mandrup and her latest signature building right by the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland – one of the places in the world where climate change is most visible. “The Icefjord Centre is created in wood to be as sustainable as possible but also to create a contrast to the millions of years of the bedrock. It’s a small building with great symbolic meaning.”
“It’s a building from a different era”, reflects Dorte Mandrup. “The Greenlandic bedrock is one of the oldest in the world. The Icefjord Centre soars like a boomerang or a snowy owl over the landscape. We created a place with overhangs towards the west and east, so you can find shelter in the arctic landscape. It creates its own landscape, its own place as a roof that becomes a hill or a public space or a gate between the town of Ilulissat and the vast landscape.”
Studies in sculpture, ceramics, and medicine have influenced Dorte Mandrup’s approach to architecture, which has always been ‘hands-on’. Shape and form constitute her company’s ethos – to create aesthetically pleasing spaces, are contextually relevant, and invite people to engage.