OMA--Toulouse exhibition and convention centre / editor: Dominique Boudet ; photography by Marco Cappelletti.

Zurich : Park Books, [2020]

108 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 x 34 cm

The new MEETT Toulouse exhibition and convention center in the French city of Toulouse once again demonstrates how a seemingly dull, functional task results in striking and refined architecture if the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture OMA and its mastermind Rem Koolhaas take care of it. The vast structure, covering ca 618 by 246 yards of ground, makes for a spectacular spatial experience in its main exhibition hall that offers 484,376 square feet of column-free floor space. OMA also took an unusual path with regard to the configuration and transport connection of the entire complex. Rather than sealing even more ground with tarmac for endless car parks, it concentrated them into a compact multi-storey parking garage at the heart of the complex that also serves as a general traffic hub for MEETT Toulouse.00The book offers impressions of MEETT Toulouse?s enormous dimensions and the vast spaces it provides through images taken by French photographer Marco Cappelletti. The volume is rounded out with selected plans and concise texts on the particulars of the project.

9783038602132 English edition hardbound
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Taillandier, Pierre-Louis, (1965- ...)
MEETT (Convention facility)
Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
Office for metropolitan architecture (Rotterdam)
Batlle i Roig arquitectes (Espagne)
Taillandier Architectes Associés.
Convention facilities France Toulouse Pictorial works.
Architecture, Modern 20th century France Toulouse Pictorial works.
Exhibition buildings France Toulouse.
Convention facilities France Toulouse.
Expositions Constructions France Toulouse.
Équipements de congrès France Toulouse.
Buildings
Convention facilities
Exhibition buildings
Constructions pour expositions France Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) 2000- ...
Équipements de congrès Conception et construction France Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) 2000-....
Architecture France Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) 2000- ...
France Toulouse

Boudet, Dominique, editor.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main m 309368
Cote: BIB 254632
Statut: Disponible