Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Very Cool Building at Columbia U

This is the new Athletic Department Building at Columbia.  I LOVE it.
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Thee is a two story gym in there, and it sits on a hilly and "unbuildable" site, you know, unless they raze the hill.  Well it is by Steve Holl and Chris McVoy of Steve Holl Architects - which apparently do a lot of mega-projects in China.  This is (and I quote from the NY Times here) a "trifle" beside those.  But I really do love it.
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For example here is the firm's Chengdu work: SLICED POROSITY BLOCK - CAPITALAND RAFFLES CITY CHENGDU
The white towers complex in the upper right.