Comments on: Basel Stadtcasino, Zaha Hadid Architects http://blog.openformarchitecture.com/basel-stadtcasino-zaha-hadid-architects/ Processes + Theories; Ideas + Prototypes; B-Sides + Outputs Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:09:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: christoph plattner http://blog.openformarchitecture.com/basel-stadtcasino-zaha-hadid-architects/comment-page-1/#comment-27 christoph plattner Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:16:02 +0000 http://blog.openformarchitecture.com/basel-stadtcasino-zaha-hadid-architects/#comment-27 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. 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.

]]> By: Paul http://blog.openformarchitecture.com/basel-stadtcasino-zaha-hadid-architects/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Paul Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:52:35 +0000 http://blog.openformarchitecture.com/basel-stadtcasino-zaha-hadid-architects/#comment-28 plz i wanna know ur idea or your concept in work & the effect of the digital architecture on your work and designs????? plz i wanna know ur idea or your concept in work & the effect of the digital architecture on your work and designs?????

]]> By: Open Form Architecture http://blog.openformarchitecture.com/basel-stadtcasino-zaha-hadid-architects/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Open Form Architecture Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:33:00 +0000 http://blog.openformarchitecture.com/basel-stadtcasino-zaha-hadid-architects/#comment-26 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 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

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