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The domineering presence of the Casino Excelsior Hotel, which separates the Palazzo from the Casino, reinforces such frontal character. The cinemas are designed in conformity with well-known types. The screen is the most important feature of a cinema, and in both cases the space builds around it. The seating scheme is clear enough.
Sep 21, 2019 · New York City now has three buildings by Steven Holl – Higgins Hall Insertion at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (2005), Campbell Sports Center for Columbia University in Upper Manhattan (2013), and ...
Aug 30, 2023 · Domus 730, September 1991. The competition brief concerned the restructuring of the present Palazzo del Cinema, in order to make it fully compliant to the Biennale’s activities and to other cultural events held at any time of the year. So there will be not just a Cinema Building any more, but a large and complex public building.
1991. The New Palazzo del Cinema al Lido di Venezia. Carlo Aymonino, Mario Botta Architetti, Sverre Fehn, Hentrup-Heyers-Stirling, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Aldo Rossi, Oswald Mathias Ungers. venue. Arsenale.
- An Experimental Generic Process
- Case Studies
- The Effectiveness of The Drawings
We will recount the process followed by Holl to address a new assignment. Holl begins each project with a visit to the place to capture the specific qualities it contains, not as a context, nor as an entity endowed with an ethnic nor cultural historical character, but willing to concentrate on its sensitive qualities; in this way the first drawings...
In the germinal works destined to competitions and small works pertaining to the first productive epoch, when Holl barely found commissions, it is, in our opinion, where the process is best evidenced. We selected three of them that represent milestones in the graphic and design evolution of Holl by means of which the mature procedure that is still ...
It is precisely these exhibition spaces that stood out, apparently, in front of all the other proposals (Fig. 9). Tuula Arkio, member of the jury, speaks in the interview with her about the work presented, of the feeling she had when seeing the watercolours of the galleries (Fig. 10) for the first time:
- Ángel Allepuz Pedreño
- allepuz@ua.es
- 2018
Flying over the architectural features of the current Palazzo del Cinema, it is useful to remember that with the passing of the years and the changing needs of the events promoted by the Biennale, the building has proved increasingly inadequate to meet the needs it should satisfy from this state of affairs, between 1988 and 1989 the Biennale ...
Selected for the Palazzo del Cinema Com- petition (Venice, 1990) and the Museum of Modern Art Expan- sion Competition (New York City, 1989). Married Janet Olmsted Cross 1992, divorced 1997. (Also an architect, Cross worked in the office from 1990-1997 and worked closely with Holl on projects.)
