Big shed / txt
Will Pryce.
- First published
- 304 p. ill. (chiefly col.) 27 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-300) and index.
Origins: problem-solvers and shapemakers : Pompidou Centre, Paris France ; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England -- Exhibition: contents and purpose : Hanover Hall 26, Germany ; Hanover Hall 8/9, Germany ; Millennium Dome, London, England ; Hanover Hall 2, Germany ; Messehalle 3, Frankfurt, Germany -- Grand Palais, Lille, France ; Zenith, Rouen France ; Tokyo International Forum, Japan -- Industry: Manufacture and storage : Cargolifter Airship Hangar, Berlin, Germany ; Jean-Luc Lagardère Building, Toulouse, France ; Hamburg Maintenance Hangar, Germany ; New York Times Printing Works, USA ; Igus Factory, Cologne, Germany ; HACTL Cargo Terminal, Hong Kong -- Transport: people processors : Expo Station, Changi, Singapore ; Olympic Park Railway, Sydney, Australia ; Stuttgart Airport Terminals 1 and 3, Germany ; Oslo Gardermoen Airport, Norway ; Kansai Airport, Japan ; Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong ; Inchon Transportation Centre, South Korea ; Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain ; Sport: spectacle and symbol : Sydney International Aquatic Centre, Australia ; Sydney Superdome, Australia ; National Centre for Rhythmic Gymnastics, Alicante, Spain ; Buchholz Sports Centre, Uster, Switzerland -- Arts: customizing the shed : Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain ; Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA ; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England ; Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia -- Sage Gateshead, England -- Cultural and Conference Centre Lucerne (KKL), Switzerland -- Influence : the spread of the shed : Phoenix Central Library, USA ; Laban, London, England ; Sendai Mediatheque, Japan ; City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain.
Exhibition centers and sports arenas, factories and warehouses, airports and railway stations, museums and concert halls - big sheds are all around us. The book begins with the roots of the big shed - including nineteenth-century iron structures, the work of Buckminster Fuller and the Pompidou Center - and is then organized by function: exhibitions, industry, transportation, sports and arts. These areas account for the best examples of big sheds over the past twenty years, and include work by Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Jean Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind, Nicholas Grimshaw, Toyo Ito and many others. From the urban demands of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to Madrid's award-winning Barajas Airport, big sheds have changed the very nature of architecture. Featuring photographs plus detailed technical drawings, the book will inform anyone who marvels at these extraordinary structures.