london ENGLAND
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
amanda LEVETE ARCHITeCTS: central embassy, located on bangkok’s primary commercial artery ploen chit road, will be a new architectural landmark for the city and region. the 145,000 m2 project will occupy the former gardens of the british embassy in nai lert park, and will consist of a 7-storey retail podium and a 30-storey 6-star hotel tower. work on site is scheduled to begin in 2010 and to complete in 2013.
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
amanda LEVETE ARCHITECTS: the lounge is a loosely defined architectural concept about a space that is animated by the movement of people in transit. a drop of water creating a series of ripples became our metaphor for transforming space through movement. just as the ripple causes intricate moiré patterns in water, the corian lounge installation is about revealing the moment of change through visual complexity. with the repetition of identical elements that have been physically transformed, a frozen moment is captured through a sequence of dynamic surfaces creating kinetic visual effects. more than just an expression of the material, the surface transformations push the technical possibilities of dupont™ corian® by exploiting its pliability and using the twisted geometry of the sheets to bring structural integrity.
