The Shed
• Animation showing how the telescoping outer shell can deploy from its position over the base building and glide along rails onto an adjoining plaza, which will double the building’s footprint for large-scale performances, installations, and events.
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[edit] Introduction
• Title page from the video - click image above to view and follow along using the transcript.
This article features selected extracts from the conversation between Elizabeth Diller and Hans Ulrich Obrist. [1]
[edit] Selected extracts
[edit] • Hans Ulrich Obrist15:04 "When Cedric Price came here, and you were in the jury at the time - it actually liked his project. He said what was initially missing was a kind of a lung - you re-inject kind of oxygen into the city." [2] [...] [edit] • Elizabeth Diller 117:06 "I very much believe in kind of a do-it-yourself architecture using working with the city and working with [...] [edit] • Elizabeth Diller 219:04 "The project was very much inspired by Cedric Price's Fun Palace which was an unbuilt ... also it was an entertainment complex in the 1960s. It was planned in the sixties it was it was brought very close and in the end |
[edit] Notes
[1] DLD Conference (2018) 'Space On Demand: Designing The Shed (Elizabeth Diller & Hans Ulrich Obrist) | DLD New York 18', YouTube.
[2] Price, C. (1999) 'IFPRI', Cedric Price fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture.
[edit] Further information
Price, C. (1961-1974) 'Fun Palace Project', Cedric Price fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture.
The Shed (2016) 'Shed Fly Through Animation', Vimeo.
Unattributed (2023) 'The Shed (arts center)', Wikipedia.
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