地拉那金字塔再获CNN报道
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）——在阿尔巴尼亚地拉那市中心，居民和游客可以爬上一座巨大的金字塔，这座金字塔曾经是压迫性独裁政权的光辉象征——他们的脚步是对过去的胜利。地拉那金字塔由荷兰建筑工作室 MVRDV 重新设计，从一座破旧的前博物馆，专门纪念该国前领导人（后来用作北约基地等用途），变成了一个拥有色彩缤纷的盒子、楼梯和倾斜滑梯的文化中心。这是 Architectural Digest在二月号的年度“奇迹作品”或“WOW”榜单中评选出的年度最壮观的 18 个新建筑项目之一。
AD 全球专题总监 Sam Cochran 表示：“当气候变化在我们的集体想象中占据重要地位时，当新建筑继续留下巨大的碳足迹时，关注现有建筑如何适应未来非常重要。”通过电子邮件解释了包括地拉那金字塔的选择。 “通过仔细的设计干预，荷兰公司 MVRDV 已经证明，不仅可以将旧建筑重新利用，而且可以充满欢乐、智慧和乐趣，”科克伦补充道。 每年，WOW 榜单都会突出显示全球杰出的新项目，今年的特色项目来自五大洲。其中包括尼日利亚拉各斯的一个公共游泳池，改建为约鲁巴文化中心；日本广岛的浮动玻璃展览空间；墨西哥马萨特兰的一座新水族馆，设计得像一片庞大的废墟；球形 LED 面板音乐会场成为拉斯维加斯的头条新闻。
据 AD 称，其中许多项目都是由一些世界领先的建筑师设计的文化里程碑，例如重新安置的伊斯坦布尔现代美术馆，这是土耳其城市的第一座当代艺术博物馆，其简陋的仓库空间已经“超出”了其规模。 AD 中东编辑内容主管塔利布·乔杜里 (Talib Choudhry) 在给 CNN 的电子邮件中表示，新空间由伦佐·皮亚诺建筑工作室 (Renzo Piano Building Workshop) 设计，“令人惊叹的时刻比比皆是”。这座建筑坐落在博斯普鲁斯海峡沿岸，从水体中汲取灵感，“顶部有一个 650 平方米的屋顶观景露台，该露台悬停在遍布整个屋顶的水面之上，”乔杜里描述道。 其他强调与自然世界联系的项目包括智利的 LAMA 馆，它位于云盖镇的林木线之上，面朝安第斯山脉的奇观，以及印度复兴的 Parimal 花园，在该市提供了一个田园诗般的绿色空间。
These dazzling architectural projects have been named the best of the year！
CNN — In the city center of Tirana, Albania, residents and visitors can climb a monumental pyramid that was once the shining symbol of an oppressive dictatorship — their treading feet a triumph over the past. Reimagined by Dutch architecture studio MVRDV, the Pyramid of Tirana has been transformed from a dilapidated former museum dedicated to the country’s former leader (and later used as a NATO base, among other purposes) into a cultural hub with colorful boxes, stairs and sloping slides.
It’s one of 18 new architecture projects that Architectural Digest has named the most spectacular of the year through its annual “Works of Wonder” or “WOW” list in the February issue. “At a time when climate change looms large in our collective imagination — and when new construction continues to leave an outsize carbon footprint — it felt important to spotlight how existing architecture can be adapted for the future,” Sam Cochran, AD’s global features director, explained over email on the choice to include the Pyramid of Tirana. “Through careful design interventions, the Dutch firm MVRDV has proven that it’s not just possible to put old buildings to new use, but to do so with a sense of joy, wit and fun,” Cochran added.
Each year, the WOW list highlights outstanding new projects around the globe, with this year’s featured projects hailing from five different continents. They include a public pool repurposed into a Yoruba cultural center in Lagos, Nigeria; floating glass exhibition spaces in Hiroshima, Japan; a new aquarium designed to look like a sprawling ruin in Mazatlán, Mexico; and the spherical LED-paneled concert venue making headlines in Las Vegas. Many of the projects are cultural milestones designed by some of the world’s leading architects, such as the rehomed Istanbul Modern, the Turkish city’s first contemporary art museum that had “outgrown” its humble warehouse space, according to AD.
Designed by the firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop, “’Wow’ moments abound” in the new space, according to Talib Choudhry, head of editorial content at AD Middle East, in an email to CNN. Perched along the Bosphorus Strait, the building takes inspiration from the body of water, and “is crowned by a 650-square-metre rooftop viewing terrace that hovers above a plane of water that spreads across the entire roof,” Choudhry described. Other projects that emphasize a connection with the natural world include Chile’s LAMA Pavilion, which rises above the tree line in the town of Yungay to face the wonder of the Andes mountains, and India’s revitalized Parimal Garden, offering an idyllic green space in the city of Ahmedabad. Feats of sustainability are honored as well, including a new Hermès workshop in Normandy, France. To build the impressive space, architect Lina Ghotmeh enlisted local artisans to hand-make 500,000 bricks.