Renderings of architect Daniel Libeskind's plans for downtown los Angeles have surfaced, and well, let us just say that it's nice to have a new name--architecture-wise--mentioned in plans for the neighborhood. Will this thing actually be built? We'll see. Meanwhile, for those with no knowledge of Libeskind, his most famous project is likely the Jewish Museum in Berlin (first image in gallery), more recent US works include the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, and anyone following the Freedom Tower/World Trade Center site drama knows that he was the original master-planner. But he was slowly shoved out of the way until not a trace of Libeskindmania remained. In the gallery: A sample of his completed projects (all info via the Libeskind Studio) as well as a rendering for One Madison Park, a planned New York development that raised the eyebrows of one critic. There'll be a Libeskind pop quiz later today. Brush up, everyone!
Completed: Images, info via links
Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre, Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre Bern, Switzerland, 2008
The Wohl Centre, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2005
Denver Art Museum Residences, Denver, Colorado, 2006
Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, 2008
The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge, Covington, Kentucky, 2008
Studio Weil, Mallorca, Spain, 2003
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, 2007
Memoria e Luce, 9/11 Memorial Padua, Italy, 2005
Metropolitan University Graduate Centre, London, England, 2004
North Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England, 2001
Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, Germany ,1998
Tangent Seoul, South Korea, 2005
Extension to the Denver Art Museum, Frederic C. Hamilton Building Denver, Colorado, 2006
Glass Courtyard, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Royal Ontario Museum Spirit House, 2007
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