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C3 361 CULTURAL IMAGE OF ARCHITECTURE

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Code EAN 13 : 2000400008406

date de parution :: 2014-12-12

éditeur :: C3

New Directions in Cultural Buildings
Since the global financial crisis of recent years began, it seemed that a new sobriety was appearing in architecture. Across the world, a large number of cultural buildings, commissioned during the economic fever of the early 2000s, failed, leaving architecturally spectacular buildings completely incapable of fulfilling their over-ambitious briefs. Since then, a new restraint has appeared, influenced by the politics rhetoric of austerity. Today we are perhaps at a junction point: in Abu Dhabi, some of the most ambitious architecture of the era is currently under construction, including signature cultural buildings by all the superstars of the last generation. Due to be completed before the end of the decade, there is a sense that these might be the last major buildings of the iconic era, a by-now
somewhat discredited architectural ideology.
A number of new cultural buildings of recent years show how architects are attempting to move beyond the restrictions of the cultural building understood as urban icon. Though still often operating within the general parameters of iconic architecture, it is clear that a return to contextual sophistication and a commitment to the public space of the city are becoming more prominent than before. By examining some of these designs, we can begin to ask: is it possible that the worst architectural excesses of the last decade are now behind us? Is the Emirate style of architecture capable of acting urbanistically after all? written by Douglas Murphy

Cultural Shift from bygone Industry
We have witnessed a great wealth of cultural institutions and destinations rising out of leftover industrial buildings. Especially over the last decade, architecture from past manufacturing activities found their recovery through injections of culture. Why do leftover industrial infrastructures and culture marry so well? What is involved when a building shifts from industrial production to cultural production? And since it concerns a form of preservation, what is it that is being preserved? The building fabric, the location,
the cultural significance of the place or the encounter between present and past?
The projects presented within this chapter provide a considerable illustration of the manifold attitudes
taken towards post-industrial landscapes, but also highlight a number of clashes involving their shift from industrial to cultural production. The text examines this phenomenon through a series of topics and intertwined stories. Whilst it needed a certain frame of mind to initiate a thirst to preserve, it made us question time in relation to place, and eventually create environments that surpass a mere celebration of the past. Recovered industrial sites have been genuine contributors to processes of gentrification, but have also been used as marketing tools for speculative developments. Nevertheless, the qualities these industrial spaces presented in the process of being adopted to cultural spaces definitely left a profound mark. Their re-use established a precedent and generated architectural models that are now been transferred to newly build cultural institutions or extension, models that are adopting an architectural language reminiscent of this very industrial heritage. written by Tom Van Malderen

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