Eric Owen Moss. The Umbrella


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  • The fundamental design intention was to provide an outdoor venue for a small number of muscians who would perform on the balcony for an audience seated below (now an internet HQ).
  •  An outsatnding example of innovative use of material (glass)

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"This is a place with no hierarchy, but of fluid and flexible spaces".
- Eric Owen Moss
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Lacking a precise definition and function, it is to be judged mainly for its formal values. It is architecture for the sake of the image; a design of a symbol with a strong identity, using an artistic approach rather than a functional one.

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Norman Foster. London City Hall.


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It has no front or back in conventional terms. Rather, its shape is derived from a geometrically modified sphere, a shape that achieves optimum energy performance by minimising the surface area exposed to direct sunlight.

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"Norman Foster’s glass monstrosity on the south bank of the Thames is a terrible insult to its neighbour, Tower Bridge, and to the Tower of London across the river. The Glass Gonad, Boris calls his new HQ, while his deputy, Kit Malthouse, is blunter, ranking it as an “architectural jerk-off”. "

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"this grey metal egg, with a helical ramp whipping up its middle, is not a normal-looking building."

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