In his cultural infrastructure projects - particularly the Cidade da Música in Rio de Janeiro, with a sweeping 10-meter-high terrace offering visitors a memorable vantage point amid the surrounding mountains, and the Hergé Museum in Louvain, Belgium, a shrine to the creator of Tintin, with playful colors, sweeping walkways, and comic-frame fenestration - his designs show a sensitivity to the human body. In Rue de la Loi in Brussels, the Massena neighborhood in Paris, his contribution to OMA’s master plan for Almere, the Netherlands (a mixed-use complex on an artificial meadow atop a plate concealing automotive infrastructure), and many other projects, he offers variations on a set of strategies that maximize urban variety: the open or porous block, the juxtaposition of volumes with different heights, and the welcoming the randomness of the street. Transportation and communication systems, he said, are the critical elements in a city’s evolution beyond the excessive abstractions and separations that modern cities inherited from Corbusier. His proposal’s new high-speed elevated rail line would connect the troubled Parisian suburbs to the central city in an integrated archipelago, overcoming the disjointedness produced by the city’s ring road. If Riverside Center defies the pattern of other recent major developments and reaches the point of realization (projected around 2017), that success will have a great deal to do with de Portzamparc’s vision of postmodern urbanity.ĭe Portzamparc is one of 10 architects selected by president Nicholas Sarkozy for the “Grand Paris” exercise in sustainable master planning, loosely analogous to our city’s PlaNYC. The following morning, after presenting his plan for Extell Development’s new piece of the Upper West Side’s Riverside South waterfront puzzle, he got a firsthand look at the processes and perspectives that complicate major projects in New York. FAIA, demonstrated the qualities that have earned him a Pritzker Prize and worldwide renown, including a coherent vision of cities’ evolution and a confident sense of form. The uniform celebrates the pink and blue gradient, which has been a staple in all of the previous VICE campaigns.In a rapid and thorough presentation of projects and ideas from throughout his career, architect/urbanist Christian de Portzamparc, Hon. ViceVersa also leverages the uniform’s unique design via illusions, mirroring and reflections. But it also honors HEAT history, with traces of previous VICE uniforms featured throughout. It has singularity, sporting a design unlike any HEAT or NBA uniform before it.
“ViceVersa has duality-existing as either pink or blue depending your point-of-view. ViceVersa isn’t necessarily a destination-it’s a feeling, a mood, an energy. ViceVersa fast-forwards VICE to where it’s never been before: the Miami of a not-so-distant tomorrow. The pink-to-blue gradient uniforms will be worn during the 2020-21 season.Īccording to the team, “ViceVersa is the finale of the enormously successful VICE campaign. VICE in its final format ⏩ #ViceVersa // /t7X2XpUU8z The Miami Heat have unveiled their ‘Vice Versa’ uniforms, which will be the final edition of the ‘VICE’ campaign that the franchise began in 2017. Tyler Herro wears the Heat’s latest and final ‘VICE’ jersey.
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