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Álvarez-Monteserín . Pachón . Simó . Ongg . EDDEA

Pop Music Center . Kaohsiung

Monteserin Architects . Beatriz Pachón . Javier Simó . Mark Ongg . EDDEA . + AV

Next to the mouth of the Love River, the project is located in the port city of Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan. In this particular enclave where water is the central axis of Taiwanese life -both economically with the largest port in Taiwan, and at the urban level with the Love River drawing a dividing line between the two parts of the city, and at the environmental level where the relative humidity ranges between 60% and 80% – the Pop Music Center proposes a landscape of geometries rescued from the seabed. Foams, corals, seaweed, waves and aquatic animals are arranged on the surface and specialize in specific uses, so each piece manifests its own personality and a formal challenge and, at the same time, is integrated into a common ecosystem. Continue reading Álvarez-Monteserín . Pachón . Simó . Ongg . EDDEA

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EDDEA

MUSEO IBERO . Jaén

EDDEA . MUSEO IBERO . Jaén  (1)

EDDEA | J.L. López de Lemus . Harald Schönegger . Ignacio Laguillo . Luis Ybarra. Arquitectos . photos: © Fernando Alda

The origins of the new Museum can be located at the end of 2001 when the Ministry of National Finance, the Local and Regional Governments signed an agreement to transform the former Prison into the future Iberian Museum headquarters. With this, they lay the foundations for the city of Jaén to recover for public and cultural use a relevant place within the city, located in the new commercial and services area at the confluence between the Paseo de la Estación and the Avenida de Muñoz Grande. Continue reading EDDEA