Help! Media Building Research
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Hi all,
Can anybody give me the names of some recent Media Buildings of Merit? Europe / Worldwide?
Anything famous maybe in the last 10 years?
G
The Irish Independent’s new printing press in Citywest is extremely attractive.
There’s an indicative picture at http://homepage.eircom.net/~istructeroi/news/news10/papers10.htm
and another at http://www.groganengineering.ie/homepage.html
The Irish Times plant isn’t too far away in one of the business parks but is pretty innocuous looking. There’s also another huge News International plant at Kells (I think) – it looks pretty much like the largest corrugated iron shed in the world.
The New York Times also has a very cool printing press in Queens.
You can get some pictures of that here at http://www.polshek.com/indus_nytimes.htm
Not sure if this is what you’re looking for.
There aren’t really any other media buildings of recent vintage in Ireland. Both the Irish Independent (already moved) and the Irish Times (moving) are going into new office blocks, but neither was purpose-built for newspapers as such.
Nothing of note has been built in RTE over the past ten years while TV3 is in a warehouse in Ballymount.Thank you for that, I will certainly include the Irish Independant print building.
Any building to do with media, TV, cimema, digital medial, etc are welcome,others I have recieved so far include…..
TnaG in Galway, C4 HQ in London, Sanomatalo Sanoma House, Helsinki, Ruoholahti, Helsinki and this amazing building by Rem Coolhaus, the 2008 Bejing Olympics CCTV Media building.
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/koolhaas/chinese_television/Thanks for all your help so far, any suggested additions are welcome.
G
Since you’re looking farther afield than Ireland perhaps the new BBC complex in London? off Regents Street.
Do you mean this one?
Is it built yet?
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/foreign_office/bbc/bbc_index.htm
Wow! I was actually thinking of the new Broadcasting House but that looks fab.
Ok, the list I have so far is:
Sanomatalo Sanoma House, Helsinki. Jan Soderlund & Antti Matti Siikala ( 3 newspapers ) Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Tuomo Siitonen, Nokia, and other media companys.
TnaG Media HQ, Galway, STW
Channel 4 HQ, London, Richard Rogers
CCTV Building, China, Rem Coolhaus (OMA) competition winner 2008 Beijing Olympics
New York Stock Exchange Virtual Trading Floor , Jun Aoki, Asymtote Architecture
BMW Event Centre, Munich, Germany Asymtote Architecture
Gugenheim Virtual Museum, New York Asymtote Architecture
New Centre Pompidou – Metz, France – Shigeru Ban (Japan )
Co-op Himmelblau UFA Cinema Centre, Germany
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Fox and Fowle Architects Street of the Arts Lincoln Center
Edge Architects, Broadway Cinemaplex, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Arts Centre Edge Architects
Foreign Office Architects, BBC Symphony Orchestra ‘Music Box’
Massimiliano Fuksas Congress Center EUR District Rome, Italy
Steven Holl Architects Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland
KHR AS Architects Bang & Olufsen Headquarters Struer, Denmark
Morphosis Phase I & II Hypo Alpe-Adria-Center Klagenfurt, Austria
Morphosis Kunsthaus Graz Graz, Austria
Jean Nouvel Concert Hall Danish Broadcasting Corporation Copenhagen, Denmark
Saucier + Perrotte The Perimeter Institute Waterloo, Ontario CanadaAny other suggestions? Much appreciated.
G
Yes the BBC scheme is going to be fantastic upon completion – without doubt the most advanced in the world.
What about likkle old RTÉ and its Montrose campus Graham, or is it too old for what you’e looking for?
Three builsings of significance – the Admin Building, the Television Centre, and the Radio Centre (most recent).The recent STW office building is nothing spectacular – doesn’t live up to the same firm’s original buildings on site, but the interior is nice.
Thanks for that, yes the RTE centre does deserve a mention I guess, but what Im really looking for is futuristic, ‘bleeding edge’ ( slightly ahead of the Cutting edge ) Architecture. 😀
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