Sunday 4 March 2012

HERZOG & DE MEURON, TEA, TENERIFE (E)SPACE FOR ARTS


Tenerife Espacio de las Artes by Herzog and de Meuron
street level entrance



crossing the street towards TEA from the Nuestra Señora de Africa Market





two young men


and the riverside entrance, a pedestrian freeway crashing into the building



up to the patio and upper exhibition space


entrance to the cafeteria and library under the bridge, or up to the patio and upstairs exhibition space up through the bridge


the cafeteria with the hanging drops/lamps by H&M

inside the library, the pixelated facade becoming manneristic details


shelves, perforations and drops


inside the library grotto


and now a modernist spiral staircase


which connects the different ramps/floors


the triangular patio upstairs 


which ends with the ramp freeway


which takes us out of the building again

and the TEA seen from above, maybe the best view, where it seems to be a monolithic lava rock perforated by moving reflections...

Herzog & de Meuron
TEA, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Project 1999-2007, realization 2002-2008

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