A Movable Spectacle at a Gigantic Scale

摘要

The Shed represents one of the biggest and most extreme examples of a "move"—as in the first architecture lesson I ever learned: "get in, make your move, get out fast"—that I have seen in recent years. And it is spectacular. The combination of the lacy steel structure and the translucent panels summon the image of a Gothic cathedral that has become abstracted and stretched into a thin membrane. The diagonal panes and struts, not to mention those supersized wheels, have a kinetic beauty even when they are fully stationary. In the end, the Shed's move produces not frozen music, but frozen spectacle.