Pavilion in Amsterdam
January 13, 2010
Architects: Steven Holl Architects, New York; Rappange & Partners, Amsterdam
- Conversion of an historic warehouse into an administration building, an expansion of the existing structure to accommodate an underground car park, a cafeteria and an auditorium
- The building skin is a three-dimensional, geometric collage of materials, shapes and colours, visually linked across staggered openings and transparent layers
- The new addition is clad in green copper sheeting, whose nuanced colouring is the result of varying oxidation processes
- The patinated, perforated sheeting forms the outer layer of the multi-layered facade construction
- It is suspended some 30 cm in front of the actual solid external wall and fixed to a steel structure
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