Magnificent Metal Monday – Steel Mill Site Repurposed for Winter Olympics Venue
Big Air Shougang (Credit: Architecture of the Games)
Magnificent Metal Monday – Sky Pool Held up by Invisible Steel Frame
Photos: Simon Kennedy courtesy HAL Architects Suspended 115 feet in the air, the world’s first floating pool opened in London on May 15. Architecture Digest reports, “The 82-foot-long heated oasis, which stretches across two flat roofs of the five-star hotel-like Embassy Gardens’ prominent Legacy buildings, is perhaps the world’s largest single piece of load-bearing acrylic.” …
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ConstructConnect‘s Top 5 Coolest Buildings of 2020 Despite the pandemic, construction carried on and the “top lists” of this year’s architectural marvels are rolling in. ConstructConnect‘s criteria for inclusion on their list boiled down to the following items: The building had to have been substantially completed, topped out, or opened within the calendar year and …
Magnificent Metal Monday
Frank Gehry’s New Luma Arles Tower Shines in Use of Mixed Metals Dezeen.com reports, “Scaly aluminium cladding and projecting glass boxes wrap around Frank Gehry’s Luma Arles tower, which is nearing completion in the south of France in the City of Arles. Pritzker Prize-winning Gehry is an American-Canadian architect best known for the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao that …