Grappling with issues of generic importance to do with
monumentality in the moment of movement required a solution based
on polarities and contrasts.
This is echoed within the clusters that still manage to reflect
a feeling of movement in their still
forms to
promise a richer dialogue between the mechanistic
entrails and ensuing
detail due to this structure.
These
clusters orbit in perspective like the linking bridge, to
create
something infinitely more poetic, in
the reconciliation of the
building’s contrasts. Moreover,
through advanced engineering,
structures could move and transform themselves-, demonstrating their
capacity to penetrate and transform types, to overcome
the problems
posed by programme and to
ignite a strong burst in creating
that impression of movement and dynamism. In this way, the
programme
was broken down into a series of elusive urban fragments, that
appear to be almost detached from one another, but
admirably
fulfils the sculptural and contextual promise in
the outer world of
appearances. Thus, these
parts working together and forming the
whole are
satisfactorily embedded in the buildings dominant formal
themes, so as not to
disrupt its structure, but to overcome the
ambiguities of collage in its
anatomy or composition.
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