Le directeur artistique Robert Jahns a retouché une série de photos surréalistes de Venise en rassemblant des photos d’Italie prises par Luis Manuel Osorio Fernando avec les photos de lacs glacés de Russie prises par Daniel Kordan. Robert Jahns voulait montrer à quoi ressemblerait le canal de Venise s’il était gelé par l’hiver.
Voici de nombreuses vues impressionnantes prises depuis le ciel sur des lieux et des pays aux 4 coins du monde. New York, les pyramides d’Egypte et l’Arc de Triomphe à Paris sont assez reconnaissables mais il y a également des vues plus surprenantes comme ce cliché au milieu de l’Océan Indien. A découvrir dans la suite.
New York, Etats-Unis.
Dubaï, Émirats Arabes Unis.
Shanghai, Chine.
Mexico, Mexique.
Barcelone, Espagne.
Amsterdam, Pays-Bas.
Venise, Italie.
Spoorbuurt, Nord des Pays-Bas.
Turin, Italie.
Maldives.
Moscou, Russie.
San Francisco, États-Unis.
Paris, France.
Seattle, Etats-Unis.
Chicago, États-Unis.
News: an island in the Venetian Lagoon used as a landfill site could be transformed into a huge theme park under controversial plans by Italian fairground designers Zamperla.
Zamperla, the company responsible for the latest rides on New York’s Coney Island, plans to invest €80 million (£68 million) converting the uninhabited San Biagio island into a four-hectare park that will feature a 55-metre-high Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, other rides and an exhibition that illustrates the history and ecology of Venice.
“We’re talking about the history of Venice – one of my passions – but done my way,” company founder Alberto Zamperla told news agency AFP, explaining that his plans are for a cultural attraction, not just “an amusement park”.
The artificial island is currently filled with waste from an incinerator that closed in 1985. Zamperla says the project will involve decontaminating the toxic site, creating as many as 500 jobs.
However the project has already proved contentious among both residents and city officials, who fear that the rising number of tourists will overwhelm the city’s economy.
“We are completely against it,” Matteo Secchi of community organisation Venessia told AFP. “I am not criticising the idea of renovating a degraded area. But we do not need more attractions, we have enough. Venice has other priorities. Its inhabitants are leaving, it has already become an amusement park.”
City mayor Giorgio Orsoni told the Telegraph: “The environmental rehabilitation of San Biagio should go ahead, but it must be done with respect for this city. Venice is not a theme park, and everyone must take account of that.”
The park, known as L’isola San Biagio, is expected to attract up to 11,000 visitors a day within two years. Without opposition it could be open by late 2015, according to reports.
Venice residents have already managed to prevent one major project from going ahead this year: fashion tycoon Pierre Cardin cancelled his plans for a futuristic skyscraper on Venice’s mainland, after failing to gain support from the public bodies involved.
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Japanese architect Tadao Ando has added an auditorium with a curving concrete interior to the Palazzo Grassi – a contemporary arts centre inside an eighteenth-century palace in Venice (+ slideshow).
The Teatrino is the third phase of Tadao Ando’s renovation of the Palazzo Grassi, which is now owned by luxury goods tycoon François Pinault. After converting both the main building and the accompanying Punta della Dogana into contemporary art galleries, Ando added this extra building as a venue for conferences and performances.
Curving concrete walls separate the 220-seat auditorium from reception areas, dressing rooms and storage areas, providing a blank canvas for hanging artwork or film projection.
Lighting fixtures are tucked around the edges of a suspended ceiling in the main lobby, while triangular skylights offer a source of daylight.
The Teatrino occupies a space that once served as the palace’s garden. More recently it had functioned as a theatre, but has been closed to the public since 1983.
Only the facade of the original building remains, with the new structure erected behind.
Another designer to have worked on spaces at the Palazzo Grassi is Philippe Starck, who completed the adjacent Palazzina Grassi hotel in 2010. See more stories about Venice »
Other recent projects by Tadao Ando include a school of art, design and architecture at the University of Monterrey in Mexico. See more architecture by Tadao Ando »
Photography is by Orsenigo Chemollo.
Here’s a project description from the design team:
The Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi
The François Pinault Foundation is strengthening its implementation within the artistic and cultural life of Venice. A new site, created for conferences, meetings, projections, concerts, etc., will be added to the ensemble of Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana-François Pinault Foundation: the Teatrino, which will open its doors to the public in June 2013.
After the restoration of Palazzo Grassi in 2006, followed by that of Punta della Dogana, inaugurated in 2009, the rehabilitation of the Teatrino in 2013 constitutes the third step of François Pinault’s broad cultural project for Venice. Conceived and conducted by Tadao Ando in close collaboration with the Municipality of Venice and the competent authorities and services (including the Superintendent of Architectural Assets and Landscapes of Venice), this restoration will maintain the spirit of architectural continuity of the preceding renovations. Work will begin in summer 2012 and last ten months.
Spread over a surface of 1,000 square meters, the Teatrino will be equipped with an auditorium of 220 seats, completed by reception areas and spaces for technical equipment (boxes, equipment for stage management and simultaneous translation, etc.). Thus, it will provide Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana-François Pinault Foundation with optimal technical conditions (including acoustics) in a comfortable setting, in order to develop more fully the cultural dimension of its activities: meetings, conferences, workshops, lectures, concerts, performances, research, … with an emphasis on the moving image (cinema, artist, films, video, video installations, …). It will also reinforce the Foundation’s role as a forum of exchange, meeting, and openness towards the city.
Located on the Calle delle Carrozze, alongside Palazzo Grassi, the Teatrino was conceived in 1857 to serve as the palace’s garden. A century later, it was transformed into an open-air theatre, which was renovated and covered in 1961. It was abandoned in 1983 and has been closed to the public ever since.
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News: public and government opposition has forced fashion tycoon Pierre Cardin to cancel plans for his futuristic Venice skyscraper.
Pierre Cardin and his architect nephew Rodrigo Basilicati have axed plans for their 60-storey, three-finned Palais Lumière (Palace of Light) skyscraper, due to criticisms about how the building would fit into the Venetian landscape.
Speaking to Italian media, Basilicati said: “The decision was inevitable after over two years since presenting the initiative we could not get formal approval on a deal with all public bodies involved.”
Cardin’s Palace of Light was to be built on Venice’s mainland in the former industrial area of Porto Marghera and was to boast swimming pools, gardens and ponds on the upper decks and a helipad on the roof.
Opposition and criticism over the glass skyscraper began in 2012. Locals have been concerned over the impact the 245 metre-high structure would have on the Venetian landscape and its medieval city.
“Venetians and Italians are tired of seeing Venice abused by the vast cruise ships and mounting examples of the crudest commercialism,” reported Anna Somers Cocks in the Arts Newspaper.
Originally set for a 2015 completion, to coincide with the Milan Universal Exposition, the glass palace was to include housing, hotels, cinemas, restaurants, research centres as well as educational and sports facilities; totalling an area of 250,000 square metres. The skyscraper’s three towers and 60 floors were to be connected by six horizontal disks, located 35 metres apart.
Earlier this year, Dezeen reported on Rem Koolhaas’ OMA plans to transform a building on Venice’s Grand Canal into a department store and public event space. See more architecture in Venice »
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News: Rem Koolhaas’ OMA has been granted planning permission to transform a building on Venice’s Grand Canal into a department store and public event space.
The decision follows two years of bickering over the fate of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, which was bought by the property group of fashion retailer Benetton five years ago.
First constructed in 1228, the building has been completely rebuilt twice and was most recently in use as a post office.
Above: cultural events will take place inside the building following OMA’s renovation
OMA’s scheme, which was unveiled at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, originally included plans to insert escalators and remove two sides of the roof to create a terrace overlooking the Grand Canal.
Following pressure from conservation groups, however, the firm made a number of changes to the plans, including altering the positioning of the roof terrace on top of the building so that no parts of the roof need to be demolished.
OMA founder Rem Koolhaas was recently revealed as director of the next Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, which is themed around the concept of “fundamentals” and will chart the emergence of a “a single modern language” in global architecture.
The firm last week announced the departure of managing director Victor van der Chijs, who joined in 2005 and helped to grow the company into a 350-strong workforce.
Images are by OMA.
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This mysterious dark gable facing the Piazzale Roma in Venice marks the entrance to a long narrow courthouse by Italian studio C+S Architects (+ slideshow).
Designed to house the Supervisory Law Courts, the project is positioned amongst the eighteenth century brick buildings of a former tobacco factory and C+S Architects designed the pitched roof profile as a nod to the archetypal forms of this complex.
Above: photograph is by Alessandra Bello
Sheets of pre-oxidised copper clad the exterior so that it is almost black in appearance and were intended as a reference to the historical copper rooftops that can be spotted around the city. “Copper is a traditional material in Venice, used for the roofs of institutional buildings,” architect Maria Alessandra Segantini told Dezeen.
Above: photograph is by Alessandra Bello
At the front of the building, the upper storeys cantilever forwards to create a sheltered entrance to the seven-storey-high reception contained inside. From here, staircases and elevators lead to offices, courtrooms and council chambers upstairs.
There are a few windows on the front and end gables, but there are only vents on the long, road-facing side elevation. “This facade has only a punctuation of windows because it houses all the vertical systems,” said Segantini, explaining how the 1.5-metre-thick walls contain electrical and ventilation services for the entire building.
C+S Architects won a competition to design the building back in 2002.
Another recent addition to the Piazzale Roma in Venice is the Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande bridge by Santiago Calatrava, which opened in 2008.
Above: photograph is by Alessandra Bello
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Photography is by Pietro Savorelli apart from where otherwise stated.
Here’s some more information from C+S Architects:
LCV. Law-Court Offices in Venice Inhabited infrastructure
The project is a winning entry of an international competition. The building is a graft in the complexity of the Venetian urban system facing Piazzale Roma, the car-entrance space to the city of Venice.
At the same time it becomes the ‘infrastructure’ which brings an existing 19th century complex factory (Ex-Manifattura Tabacchi) to a contemporary use: in fact it houses the technological systems serving the whole.
Above: photograph is by Alessandra Bello
The dimension of the building is measured on the huge void of Piazzale Roma facing the bridge of Santiago Calatrava, on the opposite side.
Above: basement plan
A huge, five level high space acts as a ‘urban entrance’ enlightened by the roof as all the ex-industrial existing buildings.
Above: ground floor plan
This vertical inner space, opened to free entrance during the day, will house, on the ground level, the commercial services which will allow to improve and give back the citizen a big public space, functioning also as an entrance to the sequence of public spaces which will be regained by the future restoration of the existing buildings.
Above: first floor plan
The new volume has a simple, archetypical, compact shape, resulting from the manipulation of the Venetian industrial building typology and the connection to the skyline of the huge parking lots.
Above: second floor plan
A five meter long cantiliver on Piazzale Roma becomes the entrance: a huge shadow which attracts the fluxes of people horizontally in the new urban system and vertically along either a linear stair or elevators which distributes to all the levels.
Above: third floor plan
The linear stair is designed parallel to the elevation facing the parking building San Marco, letting us to design that elevation as a punctuation of small windows designing a special natural light in the inside.
Above: fourth floor plan
The material of the building is a preoxidated type of TECU copper. Copper in Venice is the material with which all the institutional (religious and laic) buildings’ roofs are built with.
Above: fifth floor plan
In this project, materiality and form become a metaphor representing institution: the house of justice is a big monomateric roof which welcome the citizens inside an enlightened space.
Above: roof plan
We always work with materiality and light, instigating, with pro-oxidation, the idea of subtracting material from surfaces and activating them with light, which is what time does. Working with the idea of ‘time’ is archetypical in Venice.
Above: section A-A
Above: section B-B
Above: section C-C
Above: section D-D
Above: section E-E
Above: front elevation
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