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The promise of the 1939-40 World’s Fair in signifying a brighter future seemed to vanish before the f

Despite the utopian promise embodied in the Trylon and Perisphere, their construction was hampered by

While the forms of the 1939 Fair’s theme structures became iconic for their geometric simplicity, the

The 1939 Fair was initially conceived in 1934 as a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the inaugu

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Exhibiting the former metabolist superstar in Portugal was also a provocation and the layout for the

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Metabolism’s biggest icon is sick and stands today only as a remembrance of a future that never happe

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The Millennium Experience received highly negative press, largely due to the spiraling costs of the e

The decision to build a single expansive dome, rather than individual pavilions, disassociated the ar

Sustainability was a key consideration in the design of the dome, with great care taken to minimize t

While the Millennium Dome makes architectural references to the past, the pure-white Teflon-coated PT

The design of the dome features a circle of twelve steel masts, one hundred meters high, which suppor

The Millennium Dome was the focal point of a larger masterplan by Richard Rogers for a peninsula in G

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The building is designed following sustainability criteria, based on energy saving and the optimizati

The combination of just glass and steel and the strict modulation of the buildings skin contributes t

Technically the need to highlight the contrast of the fa?ades has been solved by covering the skin of

The foundation reaches 25 meters of depth with the phreatic surface at -2.5 meters. The buildings str

This is a building with a simple and clear concept but with a tough and sophisticated technical devel

The contrast between the different fa?ades has been strengthen by the use of high brightness black co

The buildings formal designs comes from the need of enlarging the fa?ades surface in order to illumin

The building arises as an inner self-sufficient element, nevertheless answers back to its surrounding

Even though the building can appear to be an arbitrary sculpture, the project is the result of meticu

In addition the building houses 75 different size acoustic classrooms, 32 individual practice cabins,

The volume veils a precious piece inside, the auditorium, which becomes the heart of the building.Sav