Prada’s Theater of the Future - At first glance, Rem Koolhaas’ Prada Transformer in Seoul, South Korea, looks like a Brobdingnagian toddler’s toy, a luminous, and scaleless, triangular object—in fact, a 20-meter tall tetrahedron—tautly wrapped in a translucent white elastic membrane. Inside, 280 pieces of steel, which tip the scales at 180 tons, frame the elaborate structure, giving shape to the cruciform, the circle, the rectangle, and the hexagon that make up the various planes of the tetrahedron with Tinkertoy-like precision.

By jmon  •  Monday, June 29, 2009  •