Chicago Architecture Biennal Lakefront Kiosk
- 1322-FAL-ORD.US-2015
- by Fala
The ‘little kiosk artistically considered’ lives in limbo: it is an irrelevant monument. It is as much a kiosk as it is a proud piece of architecture.
The ‘kiosk’ has a grand timber roof which recalls the sharp lines of Prairie architecture and underlines the vistas to the park and Lake Michigan. Under the roof, a glass box surprises with its verticality. It hosts all kinds of cultural and commercial programs, as well as a marble column.
The ‘kiosk’ is made of familiar elements assembled in an unorthodox manner.
It invites the visitor to reconsider its relationship to the city and to architecture as a necessarily referential discipline.
Its architectural language is clear and honest: anyone can dismount and remount it, both literally and mentally, but its poetry lies in the fact that it never truly belongs. Like a child lost in a city of adults.
credits
architect: Fala | client: Unknown | status: Competition (2015) | competition: Chicago Architecture Biennal Lakefront Kiosk | location: Chicago, United States | climate: Continental, Temperate | material: wood | environments: Park, Riverside | visualizer: Studio | scale: extrasmall | types: cultural, pavilion | views: 5.762
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