Friday 18 December 2015

Discover Santiago de Compostela XII: The Heijduk Memorial Towers


Postcard 12 features the Hejduk Towers at the City of Culture in Mount Gaiás. American arhitect John Heijduk originally designed the towers in 1992 to be botanic towers for Compostela Park however after it was never realised, Eisenman who was an old friend and colleague of Hejduk decided to recover the project.The towers are 82-foot tall and situated at the edge of the new site, overlooking the city's old medieval centre. The two towers bare a similar form but are constructed from different materials, one is clad in granite while the other appears like a wire-frame showing metal and glass.


John Hejduk (1929-2000)


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