A shopping centre can not be infrastructural it has to be glamorous and identifying the place.
The combination of esthetics and strangeness results in fascination. Architecture is at home and at its best over there.
Skin and vaines are part of the living presence of architecture.
An architectural wall can be a beautiful display of its content
Shaping transparency is meaningful thinking with voids and depths, what lies ahead and behind.
A shopping center above a public transport hub should become common.
An architectural composition should not go from the ground to the air but from one side to the other
Architecture that communicates does this first with its context and finalizes it with its content.
Large architectural objects are autoligitimizing phenomenons, they work like magnets and in this way as 'place to be',
A shopping centre can not be infrastructural it has to be glamorous and identifying the place.
The combination of esthetics and strangeness results in fascination. Architecture is at home and at its best over there.
Skin and vaines are part of the living presence of architecture.
Shaping transparency is meaningful thinking with voids and depths, what lies ahead and behind.
© Dirk Coopman