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2013年5月7日星期二

an old brick brewers' yard traversed by young Londoners in stovepipe trousers


Not long ago, the Architecture Foundation, in London, invited him to collaborate on a project--an installation outside its gallery, on Old Street. The gallery's curator had seen a Slimane installation at P.S. 1 and had thought that he might bring a fresh perspective to the task of building a building just for the sake of it. Slimane made sketches of a structure he had in mind, and a team of architects and engineers, from the firm Building Design Partnership (BDP), which typically designs large-scale projects such as hospitals and office buildings, set to work, pro bono, turning them into an edifice that would abide by the laws of physics.

With projects come meetings. One morning in January, the team received Slimane in a conference room on the ground floor of BDP's headquarters, in London's East End. The view through the window was of an old brick brewers' yard traversed by young Londoners in stovepipe trousers. Slimane came from Paris by train. He wore low-slung Dior jeans, high-heeled boots, a black leather jacket, a hooded sweatshirt, a silk scarf, and a serious expression. Slimane's idea was to render a stage vertically. He envisioned a black steel structure, four stories tall, each floor a platform with room for one member of a rock band, his instrument, and not much else--the drummer on the top floor, the bassist on three, and so forth. It would be fronted with glass, preferably seamless, so that you could see inside, and a giant speaker would hang off it, to amplify a performance for passersby.

The architects had made four cardboard maquettes, each about the size of a shoebox, and arrayed them at one end of a conference table. The maquettes brought to mind the tiny Stonehenge stage set from "This Is Spinal Tap," mistakenly built to the proportions of a sketch on a napkin. Slimane and the architects clustered around them. The atmosphere was solemn. Quickly it became clear that this was a complicated undertaking, that it would require hundreds of hours of work by dozens of people. The structure would stand for just twelve weeks.yanzic0507.

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