January 7, 2013
We are in no way strangers to innovation, at least in terms of architecture and design. We’ve seen it all: styrofoam, inflatables, even Jell-O. But there’s always room for new discoveries, including recycled dairy cartons. Built using 45,000 cartons recycled by more than 100 colleges from around Granada, Spain, the Tetrabrik Pavilion (or Hall of Briks) was a temporary exhibition space designed in 2011 by CUAC Arquitectura and Sugarplatform to celebrate World Recycling Day. Also: The pavilion has set a Guinness World Record as the largest built structure created from recycled materials. Not too shabby for a few thousand used milk cartons! Read more.
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January 2, 2013
Building: The Ma: Andalucia’s Museum of Memory
Architect: Alberto Campo Baeza
Location: Granada, Spain
Why We Liked This:
Metaphors and architecture can be, well, heavy-handed. Most of the time, the combination produces bad results consisting of overly literal formal devices that are to buildings what “get it” is to a terrible joke. Still, sometimes it works; such is the case with Alberto Campo Baeza’s Museum of Memory, a heroically (neo-)modernist gesture plunked down along the perimeter of picturesque Granada. The vertical concrete slab, perforated with small square windows, looms over a low-lying podium structure pierced by a central circular void. This “courtyard” contains an intertwined set of spiraling ramps. Yes, memory equals time which is manifested as spiral of matter and events. We get it. But move beyond that, and you’ll find a stunning architectural space. The visual drama fostered therein is a dynamic foil to the platonic purity of the architecture. See more of this project in the Architizer database here.
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