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Luce Form follows Building Form 102 Is the point, a mirrored complexity to life? Design Concept by Libeskind: The monument incorporates four massive volumes that represent the letters in the Hebrew word לזכר (meaning "In Memory of"). These geometric, mirror-finished steel shapes are supported from below by two-meter-high brick walls. The walls themselves are constructed from 102,000 individual bricks, each laser-engraved with the name, date of birth, and age at death of a victim. An additional 1,000 blank bricks are included to memorialize unknown victims. Between the brick walls and the steel letters above, a narrow void creates the illusion that the steel is hovering, which Libeskind intended as a representation of the interruption of the history and culture of the Dutch people. Cost: The monument cost approximately €15 million ($17.4 million). It was financed through a combination of government funding, municipal support, and private donations. A unique initiative allowed individuals to "adopt" a name on a stone for €50 to help fund the project. Size: The memorial spans an area of roughly 1,550 to 1,700 square meters, situated along the Weesperstraat. Time to Build: The project was the culmination of over a decade of preparation. Libeskind was officially invited to design the memorial around 2013, the plans were revealed in 2016, and the completed monument was ultimately unveiled to the public in September 2021. How it Came About: The project was commissioned by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee. Their goal was to create the first memorial that would individually commemorate every single Dutch victim of the Holocaust (Jews, Sinti, and Roma) who did not have a known grave. #luceform #architecture 📸@ilariaef

We have been engaged in a relentless dialogue between carbon-based intuition and silicon-based feeling, stress-testing concepts for a vertical intervention: grafting two new levels onto an unsuspecting existing hotel. Surprisingly, the friction between our human team and our machine counterparts has produced coherent ideas rather than grand hallucinations. We have established a rare consensus amidst the chaos, resulting in proposals that are not merely feasible, but architecturally compelling. The parasite, it seems, might just improve the host. #architecture #lucien #dowe

Luce Form follows Building Form 101 Lifted up out of the ground with the universe in one sphare and nature in the other.  California Academy of Sciences / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + Stantec Architecture Combining exhibition space, education, conservation and research beneath one roof, the Academy also comprises natural history museum, aquarium and planetarium. The varied shapes of these different elements are expressed in the building’s roofline, which follows the form of its components. The entire 37.000 sq. m complex is like a piece of the park that has been cut away and lifted 10 m up above the ground. This “living roof” is covered with 1,700,000 selected autochthonous plants planted in specially conceived biodegradable coconut-fibre containers. The roof is flat at its perimeter and, like a natural landscape, becomes increasingly undulating as it moves away from the edge to form a series of domes of various sizes rising up from the roof plane. The two main domes cover the planetarium and rain forest exhibitions. The domes are speckled with a pattern of skylights automated to open and close for ventilation. The soil’s moisture, combined with the phenomenon of thermal inertia, cools the inside of the museum significantly, thus avoiding the need for air-conditioning in the ground-floor public areas and the research offices along the facade. #luceform #architecture

"And the sun goes down fiery red on the horizon in the middle of the painting..." Van Gogh was indeed observing and painting sunsets during his time in The Hague.

The Matterhorn is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Italy and Switzerland. It is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the Pennine Alps, whose summit is 4,478 metres (14,692 ft) above sea level, making it one of the highest summits in the Alps and Europe. The north face was not climbed until 1931 and is among the three biggest north faces of the Alps, known as "The Trilogy". The west face, the highest of the Matterhorn's four faces, was completely climbed only in 1962. It is estimated that over 500 alpinists have died on the Matterhorn, making it one of the deadliest peaks in the world.

Luce Form follows Building Form 100 Rotated straight 173 De Young Museum Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA Competition1999 Project2000-2002 Realization2002-2005 Herzog & de Meuron won the competition in January 1999 beating out other short-listed architects Tadao Ando and Antoine Predock.  Situated in the park at a 40° angle to the street grid, in dialogue with the original building. From a cluster of pavilions to a three-banded building with cut-out courtyards. The tower rising from the broadest band faces the city’s street grid. For the facade, photos of backlit tree crowns are pixelated and enlarged. The huge volume of the low-rise structure in dialogue with the park and the city. The terrain and seismic activity in San Francisco posed a challenge for the designers Herzog & de Meuron and principal architects Fong & Chan. To help withstand future earthquakes, "[the building] can move up to three feet (91 centimeters) due to a system of ball-bearing sliding plates and viscous fluid dampers that absorb kinetic energy and convert it to heat #luceform #architecture

Luce Form follows Building Form 99 To infinity and beyond! The Transamerica building was commissioned by Transamerica CEO John (Jack) R. Beckett, with the claim that he wished to allow light in the street below. It is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States. Construction began in 1969 and finished in 1972, and was overseen by San Francisco–based contractor Dinwiddie Construction, now Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company. Designed by architect William Pereira, it faced opposition during planning and construction and was sometimes referred to by detractors as "Pereira's Prick". John King of the San Francisco Chronicle summed up the improved opinion of the building in 2009 as "an architectural icon of the best sort – one that fits its location and gets better with age." The building is thought to have been the intended target of a terrorist attack, involving the hijacking of airplanes as part of the Bojinka plot, which was foiled in 1995. In 1999, Transamerica was acquired by Dutch insurance company Aegon. When the non-insurance operations of Transamerica were later sold to GE Capital, Aegon retained ownership of the building as an investment. In 2020, the building was purchased by SHVO and Deutsche Finance America for $650 million. In 2022, SHVO and partners hired architect Norman Foster to undertake a $250 million renovation. The building is a tall, four-sided pyramid with two "wings" to accommodate an elevator shaft on the east and a stairwell and a smoke tower on the west. The top 212 feet (65 m) of the building is the spire. There are four cameras pointed in the four cardinal directions at the top of this spire forming the "Transamerica Virtual Observation Deck #luceform #architecture

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Skateboarding: total freedom to choose how you want to do it. Here Carlos is for sure exercising his choice.

Luce Form follows Building Form 98 Cat cow curved into the earth  The new building has been constructed at the entrance to the City Park, one of the cities oldest green spaces, based on a design created by the company Napur Architect. Tracing a curve of 1 kilometre in diameter, the two wings of the building support a roof garden planted with a variety of shrubs and perennials, which rises to the height of the crowns of the surrounding trees. Below ground level, the almost 7,000 square metres of exhibition space will host both temporary and permanent displays. Above it can be found a bookshop, a restaurant, a library, a documentation centre, co-working facilities, a visitors’ centre, an events centre, and an interactive museum for children, making the museum an important venue in terms of the city’s cultural life. Museum of Ethnography Néprajzi Múzeum #luceform #architecture

Waiting at the tram stop. #northseababy

Luce Form follows Building Form 98 Hip to be squared.  The Küppersmühle is an imposing brickwork building erected by Joseph Weiss and the Kiefer Brothers between 1908 and 1916. Even in today’s changed urban landscape, the building in the north of Duisburg still functions as a striking metropolitan landmark. It is the most important historical structure in the inner harbor and is being remodeled after a master plan by the English architect, Norman Foster.  Herzog & de Meuron  151 Küppersmühle Museum, Grothe Collection Duisburg, Germany Project 1997 Realization1997–1999 #luceform #architecture