Toppila Pulp Mill

photo Daniel Segerlöv

The Toppila pulp mill was designed by Alvar Aalto in 1931. When the factory was taken out of service in the 1990s, planning began to convert the area to residential use. 

The Cultural Power Station association is now refurbishing the silo to be used as an emerging community art centre. The project started as a diploma project and was continued with a half-year grant from the Finnish cultural fund.

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Soundtrack: Fun - Here Comes The Ugly Man

Temple Beth El

This rarely published Kahn´s work - the Temple Beth El in Chappaqua was completed in 1972. The structure is made of concrete and wood. Its polygonal volume, rising to a central lantern, is related to the forms of earlier wooden synagogues of Poland.

In 2010 original concrete entryway was demolished and replaced with the glass hall connecting temple with the new addition.

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Soundtrack: Isis - Dulcinea

Kahn in Kathmandu

Family Planning Centre, Kathmandu, 1970-74

Louis I. Kahn designed a symmetrical composition of exposed brick piers interspersed by vertical strips of wooden windows. The building was topped off by a one-store high exposed brick parapet with deep punctures enclosing large roof terraces - courtyards in the sky.

Unfortunately, in 1995, the current resident of the building, the Ministry of Health, decided to put a metal roof over the terraces to create more floor space.

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Soundtrack: Birds of Passage - Forbidden Love

Hospital in Butwal

The Siddhartha Children and Women Hospital, Butwal, 1998

The shape of the hospital building is based on an extremely simple, rectangular form. In respect of construction method or materials, our possibilities were limited due to difficulties of cost issues and availability of local technology... (Tadao Ando)

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Soundtrack: OM - Pilgrimage

KAIT

photo Iwan Baan

Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop by Junya Ishigami, 2007, filmed by Vincent Hecht

Serpentine 2012

The Pavilion is Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's first collaborative built structure in the UK. It takes visitors beneath the Serpentine's lawn to explore the hidden history of its previous pavilions. 

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