Park Building

This building might be relevant particularly to Donncha and Sarah in starting to think about building in or beside a park and how the building could play a role in structuring the use of the park; be bound up with infrastructure or pathway; be open structurally; be flexible in how it to be used; engage with the place physically (critically through the section); engage with the elements...

Library for Donncha!

One of my friends just posted about this on Facebook and I had never seen it before so had to investigate. Its prob the exact opposite of a "new" library, it being an archive for manuscripts and rare books...but its my fave building of the day!
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft (of SOM)
Completed 1963

Koolhaas on airports, shopping centres and everything in between...

http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/uploads/media/Koolhaas__generic_city_sm_2up.pdf

http://files.myopera.com/aksel/blog/rem%20koolhaas%20-%20junkspace.pdf?1295627341

Kulturhuset Stockholm

This is the art house in Stokcholm I was talking about earlier.

http://www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se/default.asp?id=5617

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