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PETER COOK/VIEW/CORBIS (TURNER); HISAO SUZUKI (AMERICA’S CUP); VARIO IMAGES GMBH & CO.KG/ALAMY (NEUES); ANDRE JENNY/ALAMY (FIGGE)
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AMERICA’SCUPBUILDING, VALENCIA, SPAIN (2006)
“This building has two roles: a VIP grandstand for the America’s Cup and a symbol of that event and of the city’s
regeneration. One of the things we did was lift it off the ground so that people without a VIP pass could have access,
which was a way to make the building more popular and more relevant to the public. I also wanted to encapsulate the
spirit of the event. People came here, and felt a little like they were on a boat.”
NEUESMUSEUM, BERLIN (2009)
“This old museum [partly destroyed inWorldWar II]
carries a lot of emotional baggage for Germans,
so the project was hotly debated. There were two
extremes expected of me: The first was to put it
back together as it was, and the second was to graft
a modern building onto the ruins. My route was in
the middle—to make a new building out of the frag-
ments, creating something beautiful from the ruins.”
FIGGEARTMUSEUM, DAVENPORT,
IOWA (2005
)
“I’m interested in how a building
feels
. I’m not worried
about it looking a bit boring. You have all these archi-
tects trying to make their buildings exciting, then
people visit them and are disappointed. I’d rather it
was the other way round. Maybe people need to go
inside and be there for a while before realizing that,
you know, this is actually quite a nice place to be.”