Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction

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Ravello, off South ’s coast, is said to be one of the most beautiful spots on earth. And Brazilian architect ’s all-white curvaceous auditorium is set amongst its luxuriant rocky hillsides and against the backdrop of the refined Amalfi coastal town’s trademark awe-inspiring brilliant blue sea and endless open skies.

Completion is due in September, ready to showcase the new auditorium’s unique feature: its over-hanging canopied roof (or solaio a sbalzo in Italian). More plainly put, this means that while the amenities are set off the entrance piazza or in the floors below, a section of the 1,500m2 canopy, which contains the actual auditorium space, literally and strikingly, hangs in the air supported by nothing.

Seen at Wallpaper. More images after the break (we searched all over the web for more images, if you can find some, please post the links!)

 
 
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# June 15, 2009 at 13:49
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# June 15, 2009 at 13:49
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Fran says:

Dam… the old master has more than a century…but stil makes some pretty good projects.
The design is centered around the visitor, where does he come from where is he going, his size and vision range.
That circle at the end of the building may seem weird when you think the auditorium as an object, but powerful when you understand it was made to be seen from the “promenade”

A lesson of integration of a building in a landscape and integration of a landscape in a building

 
# June 15, 2009 at 13:07
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Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction: Ravello, off South Italy’s coast, is said to be one of the m.. http://bit.ly/SDLBH

 
# June 15, 2009 at 14:56
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Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction: Ravello, off South Italy’s coast, is said to be one of the m.. http://bit.ly/SDLBH

 
# June 15, 2009 at 14:56
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Luis says:

brazilian idol

 
# June 15, 2009 at 14:02
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Scarpasez says:

Niemeyer just keeps going. Incredible.

It’s hard to tell for sure from the images, but it looks like he’s kept the building in an appropriate scale for its context…the Amalfi coast is an amazing place, and developing an honest contemporary project that is both bold and contextual – that enhances its environment, does not overpower – requires real sophistication. From these pics, it looks like he’s done just that. Bravo to a great and seemingly indefatiguable master!

 
# June 15, 2009 at 14:28
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flavio says:

brazilian nightmare…

 
# June 15, 2009 at 18:11
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Achille says:

I am sorry!
O.N. can be a master but this looks everything but contextualized. If you know the Costiera Amalfitana as I do you can say it.
The architecture then, it is “modern” but not really contemporary, expecially in the solution of the “sbalzo”… this reminds only of the monsters destroying the coasts in the 60´s and 70´s (see Fuenti hotel, same coastline, villa Malaparte, Capri, and many other Ecomonsters). This period is gone (fortunately) but I do not see any significant development in this Nymayers piece.

 
# June 16, 2009 at 06:17
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Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction >> http://bit.ly/gfbH2

 
# June 16, 2009 at 08:34
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Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction >> http://bit.ly/gfbH2

 
# June 16, 2009 at 08:34
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que visual! rt da @azaroseuquerida Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction >> http://bit.ly/gfbH2

 
# June 16, 2009 at 08:36
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que visual! rt da @azaroseuquerida Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction >> http://bit.ly/gfbH2

 
# June 16, 2009 at 08:36
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I like to study the 50′s, when Niemeyer represented Future… not now thats he just represents the past.

 
# June 16, 2009 at 09:18
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aa4 says:

agree with scarpasez.. let’s see what it will look like when it’s completed to judge

 
# June 16, 2009 at 13:30
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rusdnail says:

it should be the ‘museum of surfing’

 
# June 16, 2009 at 13:33
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Veja construção de obra de Niemeyer na costa sul da Itália em: http://bit.ly/gfbH2

 
# June 16, 2009 at 16:54
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Veja construção de obra de Niemeyer na costa sul da Itália em: http://bit.ly/gfbH2

 
# June 16, 2009 at 16:54
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emiliano says:

villa malaparte destroying the coast???
ecomostro?
please,
watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-SYpoLrVwI

 
# June 16, 2009 at 17:01
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dan says:

I really like the project and respect the Master, but to my mind O.N. should not use colourful grass and cars in his models because they just ruin projet’s real atmosphere and purity. Mayebe they should be made just from grey and white cardboard.

 
# June 18, 2009 at 14:21
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Reading: "Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction | ArchDaily"( http://twitthis.com/bk97wz )

 
# December 14, 2009 at 17:27
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Reading: "Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction | ArchDaily"( http://twitthis.com/bk97wz )

 
# December 14, 2009 at 17:27
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Oscar Niemeyer is 102 years old today!
http://www.archdaily.com/24986/oscar-niemeyer-auditorium-under-construction/

 
# December 15, 2009 at 11:15
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candra arisudono says:

All Hail The Master . . . . , but from very-very deep down my mind,Why can not merge with the cliffs Oh my Master, and beyond that wishing you Happy 102nd Birthday . . . .

 
# December 17, 2009 at 10:16
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mariya says:

happy belated birthday, oscar niemeyer. 102 and still going strong! latest project in ravello on the amalfi coast http://bit.ly/6fdc1T

 
# December 19, 2009 at 14:09
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http://tinyurl.com/39zeurr essa do niemeyer é velha, e eu não sabia.

 
# April 23, 2010 at 19:30
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4:30 PM Mar 23rd

うずまきぐるぐる!
Oscar Niemeyer auditorium under construction
http://www.archdaily.com/24986/oscar-niemeyer-auditorium-under-construction/

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