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1 online resource (1 streaming audio file (43 minutes)): sound, color + transcript, images of works |
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View Of Bilbao From South-East--Plan Of City. Left: With The Site As Found. Right: With The Proposed Bus-Railway Station Shown--The City Seen From The South With Railway Station (Centre)--Plan At Railway Platform Level--Cross Section Through South End--Axonometric Showing Layering Of Facilities--Model. New Plaza Fronts North End Of The Building--View Of Model Showing Slope Of Site--Plan At Concourse Level--Model. Access From Side Street--Plan At Bus Station Level--Plan. Central Spine At Level Of Waiting Area For High-Speed Train, & Garden Over The Tracks--Model. Ramps, Escalators & Stairs Connect All Levels--Model. Buildings Flanking The Interchange--Model. World Trade Centre--Model. Plaza End Of The Building--Axonometric Of The Building--Model. Open Environment Under Roof--Model: View Of Building From The West--Model. View Of Building From North End--Model. End Of Bolted Roof--Model. View Of Building From South |
| Summary |
Michael Wilford, unsupported by his father in his choice of career, had to train the hard way, at North London Polytechnic evening school while working by day for various architectural practices. By good fortune, one of these was Stirling & Gowan who had just won Leicester University Engineering School competition. Later, when Stirling & Gowan split up, Wilford was invited to re-join the practice and later became a partner. Michael Wilford, as the former partner of the late James Stirling, inherited the design project for the beautiful new bus station/railway station for Bilbao in northern Spain. At the point when Stirling died, the contract for a second version of the scheme had just been signed. Now, a third version, developed further by the new partnership Michael Wilford & Partners, has been agreed; and it is this version which Wilford describes. In it the aim is to contribute something to the city generally, to reinforce and intensify the activity of the central area. The new building reconnects the old and new parts of the city. It contains a bus station and two railway systems (at two different levels) with, sandwiched between, a public area for waiting, ticketing and shopping; plus a World Trade Centre, offices and public housing |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's website (viewed April 29, 2021) |
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Architects.
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City planning.
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Architectural design -- Spain
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Streaming audio
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| Author |
Wilford, Michael, 1938-, narrator.
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