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February 09, 2006
Flying carpets
Zaha Hadid's design for the Department of Islamic Art to be housed in the Visconti courtyard of the Louvre is staggeringly beautiful (high-res images here). Chicago-based architect, John Hill comments:
Shame this is not the one they decided to build. The winning "flying carpet" concept by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti has its own appeal, and makes less of an imposition on its neo-Classical surroundings, but is lacking that certain "I do not know what".
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 9, 2006 08:43 AM
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