Showing posts with label Austin City Hall. Show all posts
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Friday, July 17, 2009

master of adobe changes to metal

Antoine Predock we love him, we hate him. He has just started an international stage of his life that is sure to blow you away. he has work in progress in Canada, China and Denmark that is like nothing he has ever done before.

Antoine Predock has just recently designed the Austin City Hall, a towering structure of glass and metal in a wall/dome form with cantalevers. He has recently designed the Danish Archives that has an exoskeleton of copper composite and is 32 stories high! It was conceived as giant rune stones, (a link to the Vikings) with a light that people in Sweeden could see. It has a greenhouse and has just about every green devise for electricity known to man. It will be built on an island of Copenhagen called Amager island. Predock said he invisioned the workers on rollerblades so retreval of the data became a dance.

Antoine Predock will, within a few years be engraved in history by his contributions to the survial of anchient texts from the Vikings to the to the T.V. script that made your favorite show.