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Mario Botta Harting Technologiegruppe San Francisco UNIT 2 CONTINUES: Mario Botta Mario Botta (born April 1, 1943) is a Swiss architect. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the IUAV in Venice. His ideas were influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn. He opened his own practice in 1970 in Lugano. Botta designed his first buildings at age 16, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino. While the arrangements of spaces in this structure is inconsistent, its relationship to its site, separation of living from service spaces, and deep window recesses echo of what would become his stark, strong, towering style. His designs tend to include a strong sense of geometry, often being based on very simple shapes, yet creating unique volumes of space. His buildings are often made of brick, yet his use of material is wide, varied, and often unique. In 2004, he designed Museum One of the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea.[3] On January 1, 2006 he received the Grand Officer award from President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. In 2006 he designed his first ever spa, the Bergoase Spa in Arosa, Switzerland. The spa opens in December 2006 and cost an estimated CHF 35 million. Mario Botta participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007. He will be a member of the Jury of the Global Holcim Awards in 2012. WORKS: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco Watari Museum of Contemporary Art inShibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan Harting Technologiegruppeheadquarters in Minden Swisscomtelecommunication headquarters in Bellinzona Harting Technologiegruppe The HARTING Technology Group is a German manufacturer of industrial connectors , based in the East-Westphalian town Espelkamp in North Rhine- Westphalia . The building for the distribution company HARTING Germany GmbH & Co. KG, Minden was the Swiss architect Mario Botta designed. Between two towers is a semi-elliptical shaped building, which rises back to 28 meters. In it are housed in four split level offices, some of which are supplied through the glass roof with natural light. The facade consists of glass and sandstone. The wall-like front is based on the Prussian barracks standing in the area and represents the company's name, the H H to arting. It is broken by the halbelipsenförmigen building orientation and thus raises up again. The company has won several awards. First, it was 2008 in the German media budget included. In 2009, the German sales company HARTING Germany GmbH & Co. KG at the 2nd to the Place of the Ludwig Erhard Prize awarded in the category of companies with 100-500 employees. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art. The museum’s current collection includes over 26,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.[1] The building complex was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. SFMOMA's Research Library was established in 1935 and contains extensive resources pertaining to modern and contemporary art, including books, periodicals, artists’ files, and lecture recordings.[2] The museum also houses a restaurant, Caffè Museo, and a coffee bar run by the Blue Bottle Coffee Company. History SFMOMA was founded in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center. SFMOMA was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. n 1946 Morley brought in filmmaker Frank Stauffacher to found SFMOMA’s influential Art in Cinema film series, which ran for nine years. SFMOMA continued its expansion into new media with the 1951 launch of a biweekly television program entitled Art in Your Life. The series, later renamed Discovery, ran for three years. In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street, adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SOMA district. Mario Botta, a Swiss architect from Canton Ticino, designed the new US$60 million facility. Richard Rogers Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist andfunctionalist designs. Rogers was knighted in 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II. He was created Baron Rogers of Riverside in 1996. He sits as a Labour peer in the House of Lords.[15]Rogers was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 2008 Birthday Honours list. Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize. Rogers was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating with a master's degreefrom the Yale School of Architecture in 1962. One early illustration of his thinking was an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1986, entitled "London As It Could Be", which also featured the work of James Stirling and Rogers' former partner Norman Foster. This exhibition made public a series of proposals for transforming a large area of central London, subsequently dismissed as impractical by the city's authorities. Selected projects Team 4 . Creek Vean, Cornwall, UK (1966) . Reliance Controls factory, Swindon, UK (1967) Richard and Su Rogers, with John Young and Laurie Abbott . 22 Parkside (Dr. Nino and Dada Rogers' house), Wimbledon, London, UK (1967)[10] . Zip Up house (1968) . Humphrey Spender's house, Maldon, UK (1967–1968) Piano + Rogers . Universal Oil Products, Tadworth, UK (1969–1974) . B&B Italia headquarters, Como, Italy (1972–1973)[11] . Pompidou Centre, Paris, France (1971–77) . IRCAM, Paris, France (1971–1977) . Patscentre Research Laboratory, Melbourn, UK (1976–1983) The Richard Rogers Partnership . Lloyd's building, London, UK (1978–84) . Fleetguard Manufacturing Plant, Quimper, France (1979–1981) . Inmos microprocessor factory, Newport, Wales (1980–1982)[12] . PA Technology Centre, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (1982–1985) . Old Billingsgate Market, London, UK (1985–1988) Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners . London Heathrow Terminal 5, London, UK (1989–2008) Image Gallery of Heathrow Terminal 5 . Maggie's Centre, London, UK (2001–2008) . Bodegas Protos, Peñafiel, Valladolid, Spain (2008) . Central Park Station (R9), Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit system, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (2003–2007) . 300 New Jersey Avenue, Washington, D.C., USA (2004–2009) . Ching Fu Group Headquarters, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2005–2007) Lloyd's building The Lloyd's building (also sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London, and is located at 1, Lime Street, in the City of London, England. It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. Bovis was the management contractor for the scheme.[2] Like thePompidou Centre (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The twelve glass lifts were the first of their kind in the UK. It is important to note that (like the Pompidou Centre) this building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the 1950s and 1960s. The Lloyd's building is 88 metres (289 ft) to the roof, with 14 floors. On top of each service core stand the cleaning cranes pushing the height to 95.10 metres (312 ft). Modular in plan, each floor can be altered with the addition or removal of partitions and walls. In 2008, The Twentieth Century Society called for the building to be Grade I listed[4] and in 2011 it was granted this status The building is owned by Dublin-based real estate firm Shelbourne Development Group, who purchased the building in 2004 from a German investment bank.Use as a location in films. Millennium Dome The Millennium Dome, colloquially referred to simply as The Dome, is the original name of a large dome-shaped building, originally used to house theMillennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. Located on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, the exhibition was open to the public from 1 January - 31 December 2000. The project and exhibition was the subject of considerable political controversy as it failed to attract the number of visitors anticipated, with recurring financial problems. All of the original exhibition and associated complex has since been demolished. The dome still exists, and it is now a key exterior feature of The O2. The Prime Meridian passes the western edge of the Dome and the nearest London Underground station is North Greenwich on the Jubilee Line. The dome is one of the largest of its type in the world. Externally, it appears as a large white marquee with twelve 100 m- high yellow support towers, one for each month of the year, or each hour of the clock face, representing the role played by Greenwich Mean Time. In plan view it is circular, 365 m in diameter — one metre for each day of the year — with scalloped edges. It has become one of the United Kingdom's most recognisable landmarks. It can easily be seen on aerial photographs of London.
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