Metal and glass
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Project • By BUREAU (D. Zamarbide, C. Pimenta, G. Zamarbide) • Coasts
PHARE YLLIAM
Few programmes offer such strong and evocative poetic substance as a lighthouse. The lighthouse is a place and an object that inspires reverie, the imagination of distant places but also of return, of a landmark, a symbol of safety after stormy voyages. The lighthouse is the very embodiment of what it carries, of why it exists: to carry and bring light.This unitary object is inevitably and closely linked to specific landscape conditions, often very beautiful, since the lighthouse is located at the edge of the landmasses, becoming the last – or first – vertical sign that the maritime traveller will see upon returning from their journey.
Dylan Perrenoud
Dylan Perrenoud
The context of the Geneva harbour may not off... More
News • News • 1 Feb 2021
A fluid building design in southwest Chicago celebrates careers in the manufacturing industry
On a site that was once a parking lot, JGMA’s design strategy for Daley College Manufacturing, Technology and Engineering Center (MTEC) seeks to further revitalize a southwest Chicago neighbourhood and celebrate careers in the manufacturing industry, an industry at times subjected to negative stereotypes.
Tom Rossiter
The seamless fluidity of the building’s metal panels, glass and exposed steel are inspired by the constant and linear flow of the manufacturing process. The building utilizes transparency to showcase machines, equipment and products integral to the learning objectives of the college as well as to provide visual connection to the surrounding West Lawn Community.
Tom Rossiter
Procession and a sense of ent... More