Alberto Campo Baeza: museum of memory, Granada, Spain.Campo Baeza's predilection for heroic scale and uncompromising geometry finds renewed expression in this new museum of local history in the Andalucian city of Granada. The site is adjacent to Campo Baeza's Caja General de Ahorros office block (AR August 2002), which in its monumentality tempered by thoughtful use of materials sets the tone for the new building and also engages it in a formal dialogue. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Collections disseminating dis·sem·i·nate v. dis·sem·i·nat·ed, dis·sem·i·nat·ing, dis·sem·i·nates v.tr. 1. To scatter widely, as in sowing seed. 2. the various epochs of Andalucia, from prehistory prehistory, period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to through Moorish times to the present day, are housed in a Miesian slab and podium podium In architecture, a pedestal on a large scale. It may be any of various elements that form the base of a structure, such as the platform forming the floor and substructure of a Classical temple, a low wall supporting columns, or the structurally or decoratively arrangement with rigorously symmetrical symmetrical equally on both sides. symmetrical multifocal encephalopathy inherited disease in two forms: Limousin form appears at about a month old with blindness, forelimb hypermetria, hyperesthesia, nystagmus, aggression, weight service cores. Punched into the podium is an oval courtyard with a spiralling open-air ramp that conducts visitors through and around the building in the manner of Stirling's famous drum at Stuttgart (AR December 1984), but which also irresistibly ir·re·sis·ti·ble adj. 1. Impossible to resist: an irresistible impulse to sneeze. 2. Having an overpowering appeal: irresistible beauty. recalls the gravity-defying swirls of Tecton's penguin pool. The apparently entirely blank face of the slab block overlooking a new public plaza can be used as a surface for projection and display. Taken together, the complex of bank and museum on the edge of Granada is intended to form a new gateway to the city, hence perhaps the need for a bit of traffic-stopping, EUR-style monumentality. C. S. |
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