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No, this is just the last remaining corner of the building where rationalist thoughts can be relaxed, and permission be granted to go a little bit crazy.
As always in architecture, nothing new really exists: The design models of the Spertus are even more elucidating, showing that a far more ambitious facade was originally planned, although sadly not eventuating. Somehow — perhaps since Liebeskind has been pulling off the fractured Jewish pattern for his museums and towers, it feels like there is a lot more behind the windows of the Spertus than there is behind the walls of the AMP tower on Customhouse Quay.
Perhaps the better question to be asking is: While we here at the Fish quite like the rumpled stilt skin look of the eastern facade, and the overhanging glass edge that Athfields have done so well on Chews Lane , why do we have such a tedious assemblage of orthogonalism to the south? Can we expect more whizz-bang going on behind the facade, or is beauty really only just skin-deep?
Nice fridge full of beer if I recall…. Nestling into the rear of the Maritime Tower site, and indeed wrapping around the 3 remaining quarters of the block it sits on, this tower proposal will be one of the more prominent and important developments in the City: The current tower anyone know who designed it?
It appears that the existing building is to be razed to the ground, and recreated anew, allowing clean new floor plates and new services in place of the present 70s limpid tower, busting through the height limits so it would seem and surpassing the height of the Maritime House itself 2 stories taller than permitted. Despite this, however, the building appears to be imaged not as one new tower, but instead visually broken up into 3 or more separate parts.
A storey tower would front Featherston and Waring Taylor streets, a storey wing would face Featherston and Ballance streets and a storey wing would face Customhouse Quay.
Elsewhere, other parts of the Tower continue to grow. Apr 25, Theresa rated it really liked it. Early April saw the removal of the white tarp covering the front body of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, revealing the progress so far on the concrete behind. The circle of life continues, I suppose. Susie rated it it was ok Sep 16, The architecture is boxy, simple and really just there for the sake of rolling balls and having something for your clopping feet to make contact with. May 08, Sandi rated it it was amazing.
Or is it that the building is confused? Having gone from a fairly straightforward modernist assemblage of rectilinear block forms down the Waring Taylor side, albeit an assortment of verticals, horizontals, and glazing sailing past in a Foundation Cartier manner, the building suddenly explodes in a giant crinkle or fracture to the east.
While the architects must have been working on the scheme for months, if not years, it must still come as an intense irritation that only recently their opposition, WAM , have proposed a similar fractured facade to the proposed refurb of the National Library. Eventually, these will be further enhanced with more paintwork and weathering — plus a heavy dose of black and purple soot and dirt.
Notice also that the extended room below the brickwork now has a fully finished pueblo tiled roof! Elsewhere, other parts of the Tower continue to grow.
The front tower, with the lowest dome, is finally beginning to grow with a full steel frame and the first additions of final plaster and concrete, whilst the sides of the main tower are now being given their balconies. Not everything is dark and scary though, the Studio Tram Tour side of the lobby building is still being given its first coat of yellow paint and, with all of its classic s windows, still looks like a fairly respectible Hollywood location.
Even La Terrasse is getting a Hollywood touch-up, finally receiving a fresh coast of white paint on the right to prepare it for its supporting role in the new Hollywood Boulevard project. Finally, two more photos from just this week kindly sent in by Kevin, the same reader who provided us with a look at Lightning McQueen yesterday. An exciting bit of distraction, until the rest of the park catches up…. Never miss Disneyland Paris news:
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