One of the most daring attempts to restore the industrial era as a heaven for post-modern architecture. A cement factory was turned by this imaginative architect into a post-post-apocalyptic Hogwarts. The author: Ricardo Bofill.
In 1973 Ricardo Bofill found a disused cement factory, an industrial complex from the turn of the century consisting of over 30 silos, subterranean galleries and huge machine rooms, and he decided to transform it into the head office of Taller de Arquitectura. Remodelling work lasted two years. The factory, abandoned and partially in ruins, was a compendium of surrealist elements: stairs that climbed up to nowhere, mighty reinforced concrete structures that sustained nothing, pieces of iron hanging in the air, huge empty spaces filled nonetheless with magic.
via Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitectura – La fábrica – Yesterday.
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