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PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTRE
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PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTRE
[BARTLESVILLE, USA]
2002 - TBC
PROGRAM:
Study center with adjoining storage to house growing collection of works on paper
CLIENT:
The Price Tower Arts Centre Bartlesville, Oklahoma
ARCHITECT:
Design Project Architect Design Team
SIZE/AREA :
50,000 m2
Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher Markus Dochantschi [Zaha Hadid] Matias Musacchio, Patrik Schumacher, Tamar Jacobs, Viggo Haremst, Christian Ludwig, Ed Gaskin
Zaha Hadid and her team's first step is a rigorous exploration of urban context and natural terrain. In this case they began with an examination of the city grid of Bartlesville, considering the various modes of movement through the city (pedestrian, automotive, over highways, overpasses), and then superimposed the skewed axes of the Price Tower's orientation. Other patterns, in a more formalistic sense, were explored, including Frank Lloyd Wright textile blocks from the Ennis House (Los Angeles) and the footprint of the Price Tower itself. The cumulative effect of these elements ultimately gives rise to the new building's structure. The building is not imposed on the site, but akin to Wright's philosophy, grows out of the site's patterns of living and landscape. Hadid's structure will not be intimidated by Wright's tower, nor defer to it, but instead rather will "flirt" with the skyscraper as it wraps around it with sinewy, sensuous contours that accentuate the strong verticality of Wright's architecture. The two buildings, a half-century apart, will fit together as if intended for one another, linked by their shared origins in place and purpose. PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTRE [BARTLESVILLE, USA]
PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTRE
[BARTLESVILLE, USA]
2002 - TBC
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