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5 Eero Saarinen – TWA Terminal, JEK Airport, New York, 1956-62.(Alistair Gardner) this principle of heightening awareness of context through the contrast of old and new, is made visible in the most dramatic fashion in a rooftop building in the centre of Vienna. The design by Coop Himmelblau for a suite of offices and conference space displays a blatant disregard for structural logic or conventional townscape principles. Having dispensed with the common-sense solution, the building suggests a deeper agenda and the result of its fragmented geometry is the questioning of the city’s traditional homogeneity. What all these projects show is the power of a sculptural, spatial language – one which cannot be explained away or easily justified in rational terms. These are all buildings that capture the imagination and inspire the user to new experiences, and they all work by disrupting assumptions about conventional functional and contextual requirements.
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