We continue our roundup with the best metal projects of the year, including a foamed aluminium mountain cut-out, 164,000 meters of chain and a copper clad cabin.
8. Hotel Green Solution House (GSH), Rønne, Denmark, 3XN and GXN
Denmark’s first climate-positive hotel will be built, clad and insulated using wooden materials. The designers upcycled waste products from the offcut construction to create furniture and surfaces.
9. The Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt, Heneghan Peng Architects
Set to become the largest archaeological museum in the world, the Grand Egyptian Museum will house artifacts of ancient Egypt including the complete Tutankhamun collection. Heneghan Peng Architects’ design refers to the mathematical precision that define The Pyramids to create a monumental wall made up out of large and small triangles and an undulating metal mesh roof.
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Steven Chilton Architects recently completed a new theater in Guangzhou, China, that draws inspiration from tattoo art. This is not represented in the mundane Steve loves Lucy forever type of ink, but instead a stunning bright red facade that depicts a phoenix, cranes, cockerels and other birds.
Named the Sunac Guangzhou Grand Theatre, the project also draws inspiration from silk by way of the area s historic connection to the Silk Road. Structurally, the facade comprises thousands of perforated aluminum panels which are supported by a series of steel tubes connected to a concrete superstructure supporting the theater floors. The facade detailing, meanwhile, was influenced by the local myth 100 Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix.