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Dezeen Screen: Cultural Centre in Tirana by BIG
I'm amazed of how architecture is becoming more and more boring, and I really can't get the concept here, nore why those forms or even the windows/apertures.
I think that al least religious buildings deserve a little bit more attention and not only the usual "building as a scheme" concept..those are the kind of buildings that are supposed to survive for centuries..
Have BIG ever heard about the Blue Mosque, or the Jama Masjid? I think not.
I'm not saying that a mosque (or even a church a synagogue a temple, whatever) today should (or must) look as the ones from the past, but simply creating a square directed to the Mecca, and then twisting the volumes according to that direction doesn't make a hotel a mosque..
Extremly well put @klauszoia,
There is something extremly shell-like about these type of buildings. What happended to caves, narrow spaces, quirky stuff or just architecture that focuses on fanstastic relations instead of envelope.
Thanks for the mosques!
Leo
I am corious about the jury members who voted for this project. I wonder if they have real ties with the life that is the subject of this design?
I wonder it because it seems like they don't really want the mosque, but it comes in the package. This mosque is definetely unacceptable "for all", even for a few, because it is designed as a dark, dangeon. It may well be the temple for the worshippers of Ares.
May God protect any society from such rootlessness. Amen!