Architecture: Pattersons
Project: Len Lye Centre
Photo: Patrick Reynolds
Location: New Plymouth, NZ
This multifunctional cultural complex is located more than 16,000 km away from Moscow, on the shore of the Tasman Sea in New Zealand. For now, it's perhaps the most remote of the real projects featured on the channel.
Here, polished to a mirror shine, steel takes the role of glass, wrapping the building's facade in waves or perhaps drapery.
The mirror "dissolves" the building into its surroundings, creating intricate reflections of reality on the facade. By the way, it also has a more practical function - lighting the building's interior through small gaps between the colonnade, similar to mirrors in a camera.
A more delicate and, in my opinion, feminine version of this glass facade is located in Paris (you can read about it here).
Project: Len Lye Centre
Photo: Patrick Reynolds
Location: New Plymouth, NZ
This multifunctional cultural complex is located more than 16,000 km away from Moscow, on the shore of the Tasman Sea in New Zealand. For now, it's perhaps the most remote of the real projects featured on the channel.
Here, polished to a mirror shine, steel takes the role of glass, wrapping the building's facade in waves or perhaps drapery.
The mirror "dissolves" the building into its surroundings, creating intricate reflections of reality on the facade. By the way, it also has a more practical function - lighting the building's interior through small gaps between the colonnade, similar to mirrors in a camera.
A more delicate and, in my opinion, feminine version of this glass facade is located in Paris (you can read about it here).