March 6, 2010 | Maryam Eskandari
Le Corbusier’s dream has become a real proposal for Perkins+Will. Le Corbusier must have cracked a smile in his grave when Perkins + Will architect announced their recent receipt of the “Architectural Review / MIPIM Future Projects award” in the tallest building category for their proposal for the Al- Birr foundation headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Perkins + Will “Garden Tower” explicitly states that it was designed to reinterpret the typology of an urban tower through an exploration of Le Corbusier’s brise-soleil. While the brise-soleil is nothing new on towers across the world, Perkins + Will’s proposal is a prominent and large-scale addition to the new high-tech ‘green’ adaptations of old concepts. (more…)
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The sun shines again for brise-soleil – or is it mashrabiya?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Le Corbusier, Maryam Eskandari, Middle East, Modern Architecture, Perkins + Will, Saudi Arabia on March 8, 2010| 2 Comments »
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