Basel Stadtcasino, Zaha Hadid Architects

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Maxime
on 18-12-2007
in Architecture and Urbanism
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OFA’s co­lla­bo­ra­tor, Ch­ris­tophe Platt­ner, wrote us, while vi­si­ting his home town in Ba­sel, Swi­tzer­land, about this new pro­ject of Zaha Ha­did Archi­tects, the Stadt­ca­sino, to in­form us that the new city ca­sino was re­jec­ted at the urn by a clear ma­jo­rity, not only be­cause the ci­ti­zens found it too large and ex­pen­sive, but also be­cause they felt not enough in­for­med by the autho­ri­ties. Here is an ani­ma­tion, by Neu­tral, which in­ves­ti­ga­tes the buil­dings in­te­gra­tion into the archi­tec­tu­ral and cul­tu­ral fa­bric of Ba­sel — a new short­cut con­nec­ting two ma­jor squa­res de­ter­mi­nes an archi­tec­tu­ral lands­cape to ac­cess the old and new parts of a mu­sic ve­nue — and de­mons­tra­tes the inc­rea­sing con­ver­gence bet­ween mo­tion graphics and the built environment.

3 Responses to “Basel Stadtcasino, Zaha Hadid Architects”

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  1. 1 Open Form Architecture
    22-12-2007 at 13:33

    I was at­ten­ding fi­nal re­views at ETHZ and I had a look at Kunsthaus in Zue­rich and the Klee Zen­trum in Bern by Renzo Piano. I think Paul Klee was more ins­pi­ring than Renzo Piano. I should send you a pic­ture of the cu­rrent con­di­tion of the Ca­sino Site. The first part of the ani­ma­tion is the most in­ters­ting one; another les­son in ur­ban plan­ning. But the peo­ple here only see the po­ten­tial cost and rea­lize the pro­ject is big­ger than the cu­rrent one — the new pro­file was built to vi­sua­lize the dif­fer­nece. It is not good in Swi­tzer­land if you do so­mething big­ger, ex­cept for Ba­sel if you are Her­zog & de­Meu­ron. I guess they will de­sign the Ca­sino now. The Klee Zen­trum in Bern also had a dif­fi­cult de­ve­lo­ping process.

    http://www.paulkleezentrum.ch/ww/en/pub/web_root/zpk.cfm

    Ch­ris­tophe Plattner

  2. 2 Paul
    24-12-2007 at 15:52

    plz i wanna know ur idea or your con­cept in work & the ef­fect of the di­gi­tal archi­tec­ture on your work and designs?????

  3. 3 christoph plattner
    08-01-2008 at 1:16

    I think I have to ex­plain the re­la­tion of Renzo Piano/Paul Klee: The mu­seum was de­sig­ned to ac­com­mo­date one of the big­gest and most sig­ni­fi­cant co­llec­tion of pain­tings by Paul Klee. The buil­ding is like a big Han­gar, fa­cing with the ex­pres­sive wa­ved front the free­way pas­sing by there so it is clearly vi­si­ble as a sort of land­mark. I was irri­ta­ted be­cause Klee’s rather small scale, slen­der, ca­re­fully frag­men­ted pain­tings are stran­gely lost in this big open space of a han­gar. It’s ba­si­cally a very in­dus­trial archi­tec­ture, sheet me­tal, steel fra­med vaul­ted ex­po­sed trus­ses and glass, un­for­tu­na­tely wood floors ins­tead of conc­rete — but I felt this was the point. A con­se­quent breakth­rough of this buil­ding would have been the conc­rete floor, but then any Klee art­work would be more or less dis­pla­ced. It would co­llide scale wise and ideo­lo­gi­cally with the archi­tec­ture, rather the en­vi­ron­ment of a Se­rra Sculp­ture or a large for­mat pain­ting by Sch­na­bel or the like. Klee is more in­ti­mate, so the­re­for the wood floor, which in re­la­tion to the archi­tec­ture ap­pears only as an iso­la­ted ef­fect rather than part of a con­cept. It’s the wrong mu­seum for the wrong artist.

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