ADF Webmagazine Tokyo: The power of design and the contradiction between art and life. Michael Nguyen photographs Munich's most colorful shopping center facade - Michael Nguyen

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ADF Webmagazine Tokyo: The power of design and the contradiction between art and life. Michael Nguyen photographs Munich's most colorful shopping center facade

prof. dr. rainer funke, a d f webmagazine / tokyo, japan

Feb 9, 2022

When will the containers be loaded? Such a question comes to mind when approaching the shopping mall built in 2008 from a distance. But stop! The intense colors of the seemingly stacked cubes and their sophisticated composition immediately give rise to other associations. As if someone had created a special order out of building blocks. One wonders whether this is already the perfect final state, as one tries to create with the Magic Cube, for example.The variety of combinations seems too great for this. Both that of the colors and that of the surface structures. Added to this are the manifold reflections and the astonishing visual dynamics. One does not seem to move past the building itself, but its facades begin to run, to turn, to flow. One is almost reminded of the dancing of the facades and interiors of baroque courtly buildings in downtown Munich. Instead of baroque figurativeness, however, here it is geometry.

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