structure from outside
interior, 2nd floor
interior stairs and walls
foster + partners’ swiss RE building
Bruno Taut designed his famed and ultra-influential fairy-tale pagoda Glass Pavilion, a small structure in glass and steel, set on a concrete base. Heralded the Utopian Expressionist architecture of the years prior and after WWI, this small jewel was one of the most ambitious expressions of the Expressionist theme of the crystalline and glass. Glass was chosen not only for its transparency and flexibility, but also for its mystical and romantic metaphor of spiritual transformation, as with its purity and clarity, it came to represent the supreme synthesis of form and beauty.
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