Abandoned Toyo Ito
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Apr 2010
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© El Pais
Back in 2006, the Torrevieja Relaxation Park in Spain was built to be a landmark in the City and a referent in contemporary architecture, but its actual state is just the opposite.
Thanks to Abitare I got into this article that shows how the building is already in ruins just 4 years after its realization. The original project contained three buildings in the coasts of Torrevieja, but the Coast management department stopped the project, leaving it to the disuse consequences. Now Torrevieja has a landmark, but was this what they expected?
another one modern building that gets old early. Modern architecture has that curse that become buildings old in a short space ot time.
well it does not help it’s cause if is left unfinished and with maintenance… of course if you are comparing it to a masonry building then you are right but this is a different kind of building
so let’s all make old architecture :D…. i just can not understand people like you…
me too. i hate people who try to revive past architecture now.
“so let’s all make old architecture”
that’s quite the hyperbole. i think historical buildings are good to reference because their functionality is tried and true. modernism tries too hard at times to be sculpturally pleasing and ends up no longer needed and forgotten – like an impulse buy.
@robledo
Another architect that can’t read. They clearly stated that the project hasn’t been finished or maintained – this has nothing to do with wether or not the building is modern.
It has not get old early. It was never finished, because the city hall started the works without an ecologycal study of the environment, and it´s placed on a natural park, which is a space protected. So it was denounced and the Judges stopped the works because they were illegal.
They were 3 buildings like this one in the project, but only 1 was built. Since then, the building has been abandoned and destructed.
You can read more here: http://barbarela.net/en/1620
Abandoned Toyo Ito http://archdai.ly/9KzHal via @archdaily
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Just curious. Thanks.
it does not deserve to be in this state of abandonment.
My professor designed this with Ito when he was still working for him….
It’s a shame that it is in this state, after the hype it just becomes abandoned. Hopefully the government can kick start the project again
You can know more about the state of the building and the exhibition which has denounced this situation in the following links:
http://barbarela.net/en/1649/trackback
http://barbarela.net/en/1620/trackback
if it’s true that they built this in a protected coastal area, a good thing they shut the work down. It’s funny how people would say that the project doesn’t “deserve” to be in this state, while there is strong evidence that, in fact, it does.
If it were a mundane concrete box no one would shed a tear over it. Hope someone cleans up that mess!
“Spain is different” ( and very cutre ) !
For whatever reason only half from the submit is being displayed, could it be my browser or the site?