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" explores the potential of the Plaza de la Encarnacion to become the new contemporary urban centre. Its role as a unique urban space within the dense fabric of the medieval inner city of Seville allows for a great variety of activities such as memory, leisure and commerce. A highly developed infrastructure helps to activate the square, making it an attractive destination for tourists and locals alike.The "Metropol Parasol" scheme with its impressive timber structures offers an archaeological museum, a farmers market, an elevated plaza, multiple bars and restaurants underneath and inside the parasols, as well as a panorama terrace on the very top of the parasols.
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J. MAYER H., founded in Berlin in 1996, works at the intersection of architecture, communication and new technologies. Current projects include the Town Hall in Scharnhauser Park in Ostfildern, heat seat - a temperature-sensitive furniture, a dining hall of the University of Karlsruhe and Metropol Parasol - the redesign of the Plaza de la Encarnacion in Seville. In cooperative teams, from installations to urban design and international competitions, developed multi-disciplinary area of research and realized.
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Jürgen Mayer H. has studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart, New York The Cooper Union and at Princeton University. Since 1996 he has taught at various universities, eg at the University of the Arts Berlin, the GSD of Harvard University, at the AA in London and currently at the Collumbia University in New York. His work has won numerous international awards, including the Mies van der Rohe Award 2003 Emerging Architect and the Holcim Awards 2005 Bronze Europe for sustainable architecture. He is also represented with projects in collections like the MoMA New York and SF MoMA.
Find out more at architects site http://www.jmayerh.de/home.htm
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The members of J. Mayer H. Architects, founded in Berlin in 1996 by Jurgen Mayer, have already won a number of awards for their extraordinary work--for example, their very first building won the Mies van der Rohe Emerging Architect Prize in 2003. Their structures bulge and pop inorganically in a style that aims to go, as Mayer puts it, "beyond the blob." In recent years the firm has created a furor with attention-getting buildings such as the new commons for the Universitat Karlsruhe, the ADA 1 offices in Hamburg and the Metropol Parasol, a gigantic structure for the marketplace in the heart of old Seville. Edited by Henry Urbach, this is the first book to present J. Mayer H. Architects' entire oeuvre, tracking the firm's constructions from the research stage through design to project development and culminating in the actual building itself.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Hatje Cantz (February 1, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9783775722230
- ISBN-13: 978-3775722230
- ASIN: 3775722238
