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02:38 /
06.02.2007
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The Torre Agbar has been designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and opened it's doors in June 2005. The building is characterized by its nocturnal illumination: it has more than 4,000 luminous devices using LED technology. A total of 4,500 L3 RGB lights were installed to illuminate the 32 floors and are controlled from a single computer. Jean Nouvel wrote on this project: "This is not a tower, a skyscraper, in the American sense. It is a more an emergence, rising singularly in the center of a generally calm city. Unlike slender spires and bell towers that typically pierce the horizons of horizontal cities, this tower is a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure." |
Transparent moveable plates surround the tower, making the building appear to change color in the sun. The colors used underneath are blue, red, brown and orange like a rusty bullet.
Agbar by day, pretty in sepia, usually the tower is lit dusk untill midnight.
I rest my case, this is what I'm talking about.
Animated countdown till 2007 by TV3.
At a quick glance it looks like The Gherkin/Swiss Re building got dressed up as a fairground ride!
The light show is rather impressive tho.
The light show is rather impressive tho.
Posted by Niall McCormack
02:10 / 07/02/2007
02:10 / 07/02/2007
wow, if your going to waist electricity you might as well do it in style
Posted by Simon Pyke
02:13 / 16/02/2007
02:13 / 16/02/2007
I took a picture of this when I was in Barcelona two years ago... When I was at a bar later in the night I asked if there was a story behind it. The guy I was talking to said that an architect was drawing sketches for the builder and he came with the first one and it looked like a typical skyscraper, and the builder said, "No thats been done, I want something new." And the architect went home and sketched for a few days and he drew something similar to a typical apartment complex. He went to the builder and said "No, thats been done, I want something new." So the architect went home, upset that he couldn't design something new and then his girlfriend came over, dropped his pants and he said, "I've got it."
Hope you got as much of a laugh out of it as I did.
Hope you got as much of a laugh out of it as I did.
Posted by Nick Wagner
11:48 / 17/02/2007
11:48 / 17/02/2007
ah well.... but does it vibrate?
Posted by phloe
14:09 / 18/02/2007
14:09 / 18/02/2007
yes, I don't really know. I saw the building when visiting Barcelona and thought that it was just a bad repetition to the also bad london building by Foster (or was this first and then the Foster building is a bad repetition of this one?).
Anyway, architecture is not about showing off, is not about wasting so much electricity to just make something 'funky' and 'cool'.
Works from other practices (mostly Dutch) demonstrate a much greater sense of space, architecture and the anti-celebrity attitude that most other architects lack.
Let's demand more and we will be given more..
Anyway, architecture is not about showing off, is not about wasting so much electricity to just make something 'funky' and 'cool'.
Works from other practices (mostly Dutch) demonstrate a much greater sense of space, architecture and the anti-celebrity attitude that most other architects lack.
Let's demand more and we will be given more..
Posted by monospace
14:13 / 31/05/2007
14:13 / 31/05/2007
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