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The bubbles! The bubbles! Oh, the stories about bubbles that I could regale you with! But this post is not about bubbles, but rather bubble architecture. And more specifically, Italian bubble architecture. I’ve said that France is the all time master at turning beautiful historical buildings into hideous monstrosities by encasing parts of them – […]
The French have finally done it better! Continuing the series, this is the bubble enclosed railway station of King’s Cross in London, As you can see from my blog post here, this attempt at bubble architecture falls considerable short of what the French were able to achieve in Strasbourg, a masterpiece. I’ve said it before […]
Continuing the series, maybe this is even the first bubble that kicked the movement off? By movement I mean the French wrapping historical buildings in atrocious glass bubbles. To be fair, the earliest example of bubble architecture I know is the encasement of the computer sciences building at the University of Illinois in a bubble; […]
Continuing the series, I’ve blogged about a trend that I’ve seen mostly in France, in which historical buildings are encased in glass bubbles. Sadly, almost every example I have seen to date has been atrocious. But one example stands apart, and it may be the biggest bubble of them all: the giant glass bubble encasing […]
I’ve recently written about what I call “bubble architecture,” particularly in France, in which historical buildings are somehow encased in glass bubbles. When done right, it can be magnificent. When done wrong, it can be atrocious, as this example shown here. Recently I stumbled across this example in the Alsacian village of Sélestat, Many European […]
In a recent post I’ve talked about a trend I’ve seen – particularly in France, but France is not alone – to enclose historic buildings in glass facades. I call it bubble architecture. If done right, it can compliment the existing architecture. If done wrong, it can be an ugly eyesore, as this example in Chalons-en-Champagne […]
There is probably no such thing as bubble architecture, but that’s the term I use to describe it. Particularly in France you can find many examples of old, historical buildings that are then protected, modernized, and expanded by encasing them in a glass enclosure. The Gare Centrale of Strasbourg is probably the most famous example […]
I love Switzerland! I moved here years ago, and I’ve never looked back. The people – the culture – the various dialects of a language known as Alemannic (a more evolved version of High German) – there are a lot of things to love! I’ve also tried my best in this blog to showcase Swiss […]
They don’t have hurricanes or tornadoes in Alsace- never have, likely never will. So in a recent blog I observed was quite odd for the French to take time from their favorite hobby (namely, wrapping historical buildings in atrocious glass bubbles) to build a nuclear-war-proof bird house, complete with high strength structural steel and (I […]