Curved Forms

Source: Jose Conde

Domus, la Casa del Hombre (Museum of Mankind), Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 1995 designed by Arata Isozaki & Associates

a museum located in A Coruña, Galicia, on the coastal road that unites Riazor Beach with the city centre. The ocean façade is created from prefabricated concrete sheets, 2.61 metres wide and 16 metres tall. Curved according to a clothoid line, they give one the impression of having been affected by violent waves and ocean winds. The opposite façade is composed of a double wall of Galician granite, each sheet being 21 centimetres thick. It is 10 metres high, and shaped to form a screen. -- MIMOA

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Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 1998 designed by Steven Holl Architects

The general character of the rooms, which are almost rectangular with one wall curved, allows for a silent yet dramatic backdrop for the exhibition of contemporary art. These rooms are meant to be silent, but not static; they are differentiated through their irregularity.  -- architect's web site

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Multimedia Center, Espinho, Portugal, 2000 designed by CNLL

This building is a symbol of a tradition that connects Espinho to the sea and thus pays discrete homage to the past growth of a city which has always left many of its tears in this vast salty sea. It is a building that seeks to interpret the scale and dimension of today within a large, boat-like container. -- ArchDaily

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P & C Department Store, Cologne, Germany, 2005 designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Quite massive, but sculpted in a curvy shape, this 5-story building covers an area of 23,000 square metres, of which 15,00 square metres are open to public.

This curvature also carves out enough space to create a public square just in front of the church. -- architect's web site

The façade of Renzo Piano’s design for the P&C Weltstadthaus department store is covered with 6,500 glass panels mounted in delicate wooden girders. To meet the budgetary requirements, the doubly curved surface was to be assembled from flat quadrilateral panels. -- designtoproduction

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Art Museum at Chinese Academy of Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China, 2008 designed by Arata Isozaki & Associates

Composed of two surfaces of walls, separated at the end to let natural light into the building through the skylight and large windows.

Above the main entrance, located in the center of the building, you enter a large atrium with large ramps that gradually climb several levels of the museum. Natural light through the glass museum through anti UV treated films.  -- homemagz.com