Architecture: Kimball Art Center by BIG (Bjarke Ingels)
Posted by the editors on Saturday, 31 December 2011
Architecture: Kimball Art Center by BIG (Bjarke Ingels): “built using heavy timber, the construction method and material references the city’s coal mining history: instead of stacking the wood to create a retaining wall as they did within the mines, the residential houses inverted this technique and applied it to the outside of the house as the primary structure. the new kimball art center takes this building method to create a ‘highly-evolved log cabin’. the twisting form carves out the route of the circulation resulting in a continuous spiral staircase that runs embedded into the timber facade..” Spiraling log-cabin-esque..
image + article: Designboom
Architecture: Kimball Art Center by Brooks + Scarpa « Designalog said
[...] within the immediate surroundings..” Any preference or thoughts on the comparison of the BIG (Bjarke Ingels) proposal with the, above, Brooks + Scarpa [...]
Architecture: Kimball Art Center by Sparano + Mooney Architecture « Designalog said
[...] See our other posts on Kimball Art Center proposals: Architecture: Kimball Art Center by Brooks + Scarpa and Architecture: Kimball Art Center by BIG (Bjarke Ingels) [...]
Architecture: Kimball Art Center by Will Bruder+PARTNERS « Designalog said
[...] See our other posts on the proposals for the Kimball Art Center: Kimball Art Center by Sparano + Mooney Architecture, Kimball Art Center by Brooks + Scarpa, and Kimball Art Center by BIG (Bjarke Ingels). [...]
* Architecture: BIG (Bjarke Ingels) wins competition for the new Kimball Art Center « Designalog said
[...] See our posts on some of the proposals for the new Kimball Art Center: Kimball Art Center by Will Bruder+PARTNERS, Kimball Art Center by Sparano + Mooney Architecture, Kimball Art Center by Brooks + Scarpa, Architecture: Kimball Art Center by BIG (Bjarke Ingels). [...]