One man’s Art becomes a variety of very interesting engineering feats

Adventurous visions – International Herald Tribune
Few New Yorkers will be familiar with the TARDIS, the time traveling vehicle that whisks the time lord Doctor Who through the centuries to save civilization from evil aliens. Yet TARDIS is the inspiration for an extraordinary new building on Spring Street in SoHo. The inside of the new Thomas Heatherwick designed Longchamps store, Spring Street, New York.

The entrance to the building consists of 55 tons of sliced steel sculpted into a series of rocky slopes up which you can walk – or climb – to the new store of Longchamp, the luggage company. Digital rendering of the Longchamp store, New York.

“It’s a difficult site,” says Thomas Heatherwick, the designer. “Our challenge was to pull people up into the store, so we thought of the TARDIS. From the street, all you see is this mountain of steel, and then whoosh up you go. We wanted it to feel like an adventure.” Digital rendering of the Longchamp store, New York.

This is just one of the projects that this designer has worked on, in the slideshow they have 13 amazing pictures showing the rolling bridge (to right) and also buildings and sculptures that boggle the mind. Truelly an interesting photo essay.

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