Mansilla & Tunon: automotive museum, Torrejon de la Calzada, Spain.Car museums are currently having a moment Having a Moment, self-released in 2003, saw the original Shriekback trio of Barry Andrews, Carl Marsh, and Dave Allen return to the studio with longtime collaborators Martyn Barker and Lu Edmonds. Also present is Andrews' son, Finn. , surfing a wave of seemingly inexhaustible public fascination for things on four wheels and their attendant cultural, historical and technical baggage. This appeal is also hucksterishly milked by car manufacturers, keen to peddle their wares, as epitomised most recently by Mercedes Benz Mercedes Benz expensive automobile and status symbol. [Trademarks: Crowley Trade, 368] See : Luxury in Stuttgart (AR October 2006). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This new automotive museum by Mansilla & Tunon, however, is not in thrall to any particular brand. Rather, it houses a private collection, takes a more measured view of automotive history and is also concerned with wider issues of sustainability and re-use, to the extent that its facade is composed of redundant car bodies, stripped, cleaned and crushed into compact building 'blocks' mounted in a steel frame. So the anticipated celebration of speed and power is turned instead into a wry tribute to the ephemerality e·phem·er·al adj. 1. Lasting for a markedly brief time: "There remain some truths too ephemeral to be captured in the cold pages of a court transcript" Irving R. Kaufman. , both physical and stylistic, of the motor car. Ultimately, your Maserati is just a dumb hunk of metal. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The site lies on the car friendly margins of Madrid, bounded by a highway that used to run to Toledo. The building's strong, cylindrical cyl·in·dri·cal adj. Of, relating to, or having the shape of a cylinder, especially of a circular cylinder. geometry alludes to historic, heroic lberian forms, such as Roman circuses and Castilian fortifications This is a list of fortifications past and present, a fortification being a major physical defensive structure often composed of a more or less wall-connected series of forts. . Floor plates are penetrated by a series of secondary cylinders in the form of 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. light wells. The glass cylinders generate different sorts of spaces, from the grand to the more intimate, as well as establishing a strong sense of connection within and between floors. C.S. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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