Coop Himmelb(l)au: musee des confluences, Lyons, France.Two decades have passed since publishing Coop Himmelb(l)au's Viennese office penthouse (AR August 1986). Now we are presented with its big brother; its very very big brother. Over 20 000 square metres of space devoted to accessing the 'knowledge of our age'. Sited at the confluence confluence /con·flu·ence/ (kon´floo-ins) 1. a running together; a meeting of streams.con´fluent 2. in embryology, the flowing of cells, a component process of gastrulation. of the Saone and Rhone rivers in Lyons, the futuristic megastructure meg·a·struc·ture n. An extremely large, tall building. is conceived as a hybridisation of museum and urban leisure space. With a glazed glaze n. 1. A thin smooth shiny coating. 2. A thin glassy coating of ice. 3. a. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing. b. 'crystal' to the north forming an urban forum and a 'cloud' to the south concealing the knowledge within, the building is curiously familiar. Bird, plane, or Millennium Falcon The Millennium Falcon is a fictional spacecraft in the Star Wars universe commanded by smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew). , by landing as it will in Lyons, its form recalls to the south Zaha's Wolfsburg, while to the north a compressed version of Fuksas' Milan exhibition complex. It will start on site in May 2005. R. G. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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