Sep 28, 2008

Banknote Building - by RA Studija

'Office Center 1000' is 10 floors office building designed in the form of a 1000 banknote.It's wonderful when you know that the Exterior consists of 4,500 pieces of glass with enamel design.The glass made in the Netherlands and shipped over. The Architects are RA Studija ,and building is in the Kaunas,Lithuania.
RA Studija - 1000 Lt, Kaunas, Lithuania (Copyright RA Studija) (click-2-enlarge)
There is an article,' Come and see the big banknote building' in The Baltic Times about this building.
RA Studija - 1000 Lt, Kaunas, Lithuania (Copyright RA Studija) (click-2-enlarge)
When you take a look at this building ,you find The Facade is so simple, picture of banknote dating from 1926 abstracted and distorted,just translated from source to reality,every thing is easy,but one more question?
RA Studija - 1000 Lt, Kaunas, Lithuania (Copyright RA Studija) (click-2-enlarge)
Is it a monumental building? or this building was designed for a New Company.what's the function of this Building?
RA Studija - 1000 Lt, Kaunas, Lithuania (Copyright RA Studija) (click-2-enlarge)
The Facade in the first view is amazing ,you enjoy it as a monumental theme,but is it working for a new office?!
RA Studija - 1000 Lt, Kaunas, Lithuania (Copyright RA Studija) (click-2-enlarge)
The Baltic Times mentions 'They say that money doesn't grow on trees. Well, in Kaunas it grows on buildings. Earlier, if tourists ever bothered to visit Lithuania's dog-eared interwar capital at all, it was to see the Italian Baroque majesty of Pazaislis or quirky Old Town highlights such as the Thunder House and the White Swan. Now, however, a contender for the title of oddest Kaunas tourist attraction of 2008 is Office Center 1000.'
RA Studija - 1000 Lt, Kaunas, Lithuania (Copyright RA Studija) (click-2-enlarge)
The Baltic Times mentions Jonas Plenta, marketing manager of Urmas, the company behind the project, insists that the new structure is not simply a mighty monument to the power of money.
“At around the same time we were assessing some of the design projects for a new office building in 2005, Lithuania was one of two new EU member states applying to join the euro zone. We happened to come across a very elegant banknote dating from 1926, and decided to use it as our overall theme.”
RA Studija - 1000 Lt, Kaunas, Lithuania (Copyright RA Studija) (click-2-enlarge)
It might be a new concept to make a monumental building from an abstract image,but we have to see which it's working in this Idea as a attraction Place.
RA Studija - 1000 Lt, Kaunas, Lithuania (Copyright RA Studija) (click-2-enlarge)
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