Crowning glory.Caruso St John Caruso St John is an architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John. In 1996 they won an open competition to design the New Art Gallery Walsall which opened in 2000. The gallery was short-listed for the 2000 Stirling Prize. Architects, who feature in this issue with their Brick House (p38), have recently won an international competition to build a [pounds sterling]25m Centre for Tourism and Culture in the Swiss Italian resort town of Ascona. Succeeding over shortlisted participants, Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد) CBE (born October 31, 1950, Baghdad, Iraq) is a notable Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect. Biography Born october 31 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. and Peter Markli, their design was chosen for its response to Ascona's unique setting, and for its interplay of forms that recall subtleties of Ticino's Baroque tradition. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sited at the threshold At the Threshold, whose son Lil E. Tee won the 1992 Kentucky Derby for W. Cal Partee, died March 23 of a stroke at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in West Lafayette, Ind. The 21-year-old stallion stood at Wayne Houston's Stoney Creek Horse Farm near Mooreland, Ind. between the town's dense historic core and the larger more evenly scaled twentieth-century extension, the new centre will bring significance to the site and provide a crown to the distinctive townscape town·scape n. 1. The appearance of a town or city; an urban scene: "The high school . . . once dominated American townscapes the way the cathedral dominated medieval European cities" . The programme includes art spaces and an auditorium, set among a series of extensive public foyers, raised above the level of the town. Fusing the practice's interest in extending the meaning and interpretation of known and familiar forms, the auditorium and foyers share an unusually close spatial character, articulated by a series of frozen concrete drapes drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. . Hanging from the upper reaches of the foyers, these fluted concrete forms frame spectacular views of the town and landscape beyond, and give the building a distinctive silhouette silhouette (sĭl'  ĕt`), outline image, especially a profile drawing solidly filled in or a cutout pasted against a lighter background. ; an optical presence that will change with the passing hours as sunlight strikes the white marble aggregate that will appear on the finely tooled surfaces. Internally, a more measured series of drapes will provide a gentle focus toward the stage and modify the buildings space's acoustic character. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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