Vortex
The Architecture of a Circle
A study of the striking Vortex building in Lausanne, Switzerland, the home for the athletes of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games.Edited and authored by the renowned architecture expert Philip Jodidio, this book is dedicated to a new, eye-catching building by the Swiss architecture firm Dürig AG located in Lausanne, also known as the Olympic Capital. As the structure's name suggests, Vortex is an 88-foot-high tower in the shape of a circular crown, rising around a 1.7-mile-long single ramp. Its spiraling movement creates an emblematic shape reminiscent of Olympic rings--a fitting tribute for a building that housed the 1,700 talented young at…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8478-6953-4
- EAN: 9780847869534
- Produktnummer: 34678740
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Über den Autor
Philip Jodidio is a specialist in modern architecture. As well as having held the post of editor in chief of the art magazine Connaissance des Arts for over twenty years, he is the author of over one hundred books on architecture and contemporary art.
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