Title & Author:

A Gateway for Venice / [presented by] Jeremy Dixon (Dixon Jones) & Edward Jones.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1992.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (39 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Venice Bus Station. The Existing Site -- Plan Of Venice -- Road & Rail Approach To Venice -- Venice Bus Station. Axonometric Of Scheme -- Venice Bus Station. Diagram Of Walking Patterns In Venice -- Venice Bus Station. Model Of Scheme -- Venice Bus Station. Interior, Drawing -- Comparison To Plans Of The Circus. Top Right: Bath. Bottom Right: The Coliseum, Rome -- Venice Bus Station. Model Of Scheme -- Venice Bus Station. Plan Of Scheme -- Top: Sketch View Down Grand Canal. Bottom: Canaletto Painting Of Same View -- Venice Bus Station. Interior Of Scheme -- Diagram Of The Grand Canal -- Grand Canal & Customs House -- Venice Bus Station. Sections -- Venice Bus Station. First Floor Plan -- Venice Bus Station. Model -- Northampton County Office. Top: Car Parking Plans. Bottom: Sainsbury's Store, Plymouth -- Venice Bus Station. Drawing From Below -- Top: Northampton County Office. Bottom: Covent Garden Opera House -- Mississauga City Hall, Toronto -- Venice Bus Station. Interior Perspective -- Venice Bus Station. Drawing Of Edge Of Glass Canopy -- Poster For Dixon Jones Exhibition.

Summary:

Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones trained at the A.A. and worked together in the 1970s, but only resumed partnership in 1989 in London. In the meantime they had separately won open international competitions, Jones the Mississauga City Hall in Ontario (completed 1987) and Dixon the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1983. They are both now working with BDP. In 1981 they won the international competition for the Venice Bus Station, "A Gateway For Venice". In their recording, which is in the form of a dialogue, they use this scheme as a vehicle to express some of their ideas such as "We like to work by finding practical reasons for everything that could be turned to poetic ends - the way buses move, the way people move..."; "Harnessing the banal through a geometry to transform it into some more interesting possibility".

Subject:

Architectural design Italy.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural Italie.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Italy.

Added entries:

Jones, Edward, 1939- narrator.
Dixon, Jeremy, 1939- narrator.