The Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nihsizawa or Sanaa recently completed a new ferry terminal at the island of Naoshima. A pavilion-boat-terminal-bike shed-rest-stop kind of structure made of a wooden frame over which FRP spheres are wrapped.
Sanaa have been experimenting with these intersecting bubble shapes before. They made a proposal for the Nobel Prize Headquarters in Stockholm, and used inflatable bubbles for a 2013 installation at the Sharjah Art Foundation.
When the building was just completed the spheres looked grey, almost white and as such the structure is being compared to a cloud.
When I visited, maybe due to its colour, or because of the shape itself, the structure has something organic and sea-like to it.
A must visit building!
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