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Messe Basel - New Hall
Basel, Switzerland
Project 2004-2012, realization 2010-2013
Urban and entrepreneurial planning
The concentration of exhibition halls around the Messeplatz (Exhibition Square) is the key entrepreneurial aim of the Messe Basel leadership in its further development. Building the Messe Tower and replacing Hall 1 with a highly modern building and optimum exhibition areas were the first components in this strategy, followed by the continuing construction of new halls.
This concentration of exhibition centre activities is also an important urban planning matter for the development of the surrounding Kleinbasel neighbourhood, aimed at regaining outlying exhibition spaces on the present Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) area for apartments, offices and small businesses while simultaneously upgrading the Messeplatz as a focal point in Kleinbasel.
Necessary demolition
Achieving this entrepreneurial as well as urban planning aim of congegrating the Messe and at the same time retaining the important Watch and Jewellery Fair within Basel, required the replacement of two halls on the Messeplatz (Hall 1 at the front and Hall 3). These halls no longer fulfilled modern exhibition requirements in terms of ceiling heights, column spacing or load bearing capacity of the floors. It was also important that all halls be interconnected to ensure flexibility for various events, and that nearby car parking facilities should be retained.
Necessary construction
Fulfilling exhibition requirements for large volumes and uninterrupted floor areas, the New Hall is a three-storey extension of Hall 1 along the Riehenring. To provide indoor connection to all exhibition halls, the new building bridges over the Messeplatz and creates a covered public space, perhaps comparable to a railway station concourse or indoor market, realized in a modern design language. This key architectural and urban planning element defines the south end of the Messeplatz and is illuminated from above by a generous circular opening.
Planned for many uses and events that will take place during and between exhibitions, and featuring restaurants and shops intended for a mix of international, local, exhibition, and public visitors, we have named this new outdoor hall the City Lounge. Open at all times, the City Lounge not only defines the entrance to the fair spaces, but will be a focal point of public life on Clarastrasse (the main shopping street in Kleinbasel) and will significantly enliven the street culture around the Messeplatz. For example, during the autumn fair the partially covered hall will create a fascinating atmosphere with smaller booths and aisles open to, yet protected, from the elements.
City Lounge and Messeplatz
With the addition of the New Hall, current activities on the Messeplatz will continue, but they will take place in a space with different proportions. What was once an elongated rectangle that more or less ran into Clarastrasse without noticeable demarcation is now almost a square with clearer urban definition.
A new “lane” between the New Hall and existing multi-storey car park offers better access to Messeplatz for pedestrians. Connecting east to the adjacent residential area around Riehenstrasse and Peter Rot-Strasse, this “lane” is a continuation of Isteinerstrasse and creates a new east-west link which integrates the Messeplatz into the quarter. Service and supply to the New Hall will be mainly through an underground route, thus reducing truck traffic on Riehenstrasse.
The Messeplatz is a pedestrian and cyclist precinct. Together with the adjacent Rosentalanlage, the Messeplatz will be the main outdoor space for the many residents of the Messe district. The green belt along the Messeplatz-Wettsteinplatz link will be enhanced by more trees on Riehenstrasse to visually connect the exhibition centre to the Rosentalanlage.
What is an exhibition hall today?
Ideally, exhibition halls should be as spacious as possible, rectangular in layout, with wide spans and ceiling heights of around 10 m, in order to provide the flexibility and versatility required for exhibition purposes. In recent years, the demand for such generous spaces has further increased.
Taking Baselworld as a leading example of a modern international exhibition, where the halls are animated by the individual exhibitors’ stands, the goods on display and the crowds of visitors, the question of an exhibition hall architecture does not seem to be a primary demand. Architecture is only perceptible in public areas and stairways and only there can an interface with the wider public landscape of the city emerge. The best illustration of this is the round courtyard in Hall 2. Regrettably, this courtyard is only accessible during exhibitions as it is undoubtedly one of the most attractive public areas in Basel and, especially during Art Basel in June, one of the most successful urban meeting points in the whole of Switzerland. The City Lounge aims to turn the inward-looking architecture of the round courtyard towards the outside and to make it accessible all year round.
How do we design an exhibition hall on the outside?
Viewed from the outside, exhibition halls are actually nothing more than a stack of big boxes. They require very few windows and architectural distinctions are deemed as impractical restrictions on interior flexibility. The architectural results are generally composed of vast, monotonous facades of brick as in Hall 2 or glass for Hall 1. To avoid this repetitive sameness, we took a different approach for the New Hall.
The New Hall features three exhibition levels. The entrance level, the lowest, is at grade with the street and outdoor square, permitting a natural and casual coming-and-going. Ground floor entrances seamlessly link the City Lounge to the existing Hall 1, former Hall 3, the new event space for 2’500 spectators, and a number of shops, bars and restaurants in the foyers. The dynamic sweep of the street level facade reacts to the flows of people and corresponds to the space required at the tram stop and entrances to the exhibition centre and Event Hall. Here, large expanses of glass create the spatial transparency both necessary and appropriate in order to achieve the openness envisioned for the exhibition hall complex and the enlivening of public urban life. This vitalisation and acceptance will be crucial to the long-term success of the "Messezentrum in the city" concept.
Above the ground will be two exhibition floors. To avoid the “big box” effect, the two upper volumes are offset from each other as separate entities, which indeed they are! The New Hall therefore consists of three individual elements, one on top of the other, each projecting over the street in varying degrees, and allowing them to respond to different urban conditions. From each point of view – whether from the Riehenring, Messeplatz or Riehenstrasse – the New Hall offers a different perception every time and thus avoids the monotony of uniform facade lines.
This constant architectural variation is reinforced, paradoxically, by applying a homogeneous material (aluminum) over all exterior surfaces. The facade of articulated twisting bands strategically modulates and reduces the scale of the large exhibition volumes to its surroundings. This is not simply a decorative element but a practical means to regulate the fall of natural light on adjacent properties and to frame specific views from individual spaces, primarily the social areas above the City Lounge, towards the public life of the city.
Herzog & de Meuron, 2013
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www.herzogdemeuron.com/index/projects/complete-works/201-...
Just by reading scriptures, one cannot experience the knowledge of the Self that Lord Krishna gave to Arjuna; one needs to have a living Gnani in front of him. This is the most important aspect of Self-Realization.
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Through Self Realization, the ignorance gets broken and one can experience the Self by the direct light. When there is light of the Soul, clashes will not happen.
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Realization dawned.
“Oh crap,” she moaned, throwing herself down dramatically back into her pillow.
Of all times to fall asleep…! She thought to herself. He must have thought he was boring me.
“Ugh!” she scowled against the pillowcase, the sound muffled.
Suddenly there was a soft tapping at her door.
“Claire?” She heard her sister’s voice. “Are you up yet?”
“No,” she said grumpily, her face still smothered into the pillow. Even after I’d told him I liked having him here… Ugh, ugh, ugh!
The door pushed open timidly at first and she saw Christiana’s feet hesitate in the doorway. “Are you sick?” she asked after a moment.
“No.” Claire pushed her face deeper into the pillow.
She felt the bed dip where Christie sat down on the edge of the bed. There was a long stretch of silence.
“It’s almost ten-thirty,” Christiana said softly.
“I know.”
“You never sleep this late… Mom was worried.” Christiana stared at the back of her sister’s head, concerned. Her face and neck were even redder than was normal.
Claire finally pushed herself up off her pillow and grimaced slightly in her direction, baring her teeth. “I’m fine,” she said after a pause. “Just didn’t sleep well, I guess.”
She flounced off the bed and went to her wardrobe, flinging open the door a bit more harshly than she’d intended to. Christiana stayed seated on the end of the bed, watching her with an amused expression.
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After attaining the knowledge of Self, all the questions have been Resolved. Now I don't have any fear.I just want to say everybody that this Gyan is worth experiencing.
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After his performance at the El Paso Comedy Strip in El Paso, Texas, comedian Jade Esteban Estrada makes the realization that in all of Ha-Ha Land, his fans are by far the prettiest fans.
January 2013
Photo courtesy of the EL PASO COMEDY STRIP
This video highlights Pujya Niruma's spiritual surrender to Pujya Dadashri after receiving Self-realization in the Gnan Vidhi ceremony. It shares historical photos of Pujya Niruma's devoted dedication to Pujya Dadashri's mission.
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Mark only now remembers that we have all gone legit and are no longer in the Triad business. Poor Mark.
After Self- Realization, you will have the awareness that 'I am a Soul and all others are also Souls'. And if someone is hurt, you will have the awareness to ask for forgiveness too. So, only after finding our true Self, we can say Aham Brahmasmi.
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I took out a piece of cloud on the bottom-right edge because it threw the composition off, but now I'm beginning to think that I should have just left it. Oh well.
Anyway, I took this at the San Diego Self Realization Meditation Gardens as well. This wasn't planned; it sort of just happened.
After Self Realization there is change in belief.Blunders are gone, but mistakes remain which we have to correct with the 5 principles with this we can attain guaranteed liberation.
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A graphic representation of a psychological moment. The human's awareness (perhaps of something she has read) gives rise to powerful images coming out of the shadows into the light. Yet, one of the animals too has become aware of a strange presence and is processing the vision. This reminds me of feelings that Rilke expressed in his poetry.
Encinitas, California
The Self-Realization Fellowship Encinitas Hermitage, and Meditation Gardens is a monastic ashram and meditation gardens in Encinitas, California, United States created by Paramahansa Yogananda. Its golden lotus towers rise above the white wall along Highway 101 near Swami's Seaside Park.
Construction is the realization of great architectural ideas. At the moment the shovel first pierces the ground, the abstracted journey of design gets translated into its literal counterpart. Structural steel columns, beams, and cross bracing work in symphony to mimic the swirling dynamic of pencil sketches, parti models, and visualization technologies. This series of photographs describes and highlights a clear translation from idea to reality, capturing a specific moment of time and exposing the bones of precedent thought. This photograph is #5 in the series of 5.
Photograph was taken during the construction of BMW Welt in Munich, Germany.
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How do we attain Self-Realization/Atma Gnan? Is it only through positive intent? Or do we need a teacher?
Pujya Deepakbhai explains in this video, that only if we have infinite merit karma, we get a chance to see a Self-Realised Soul (that of a Spiritual Master) and we can also get Atma Gnan. It cannot be forced upon someone, the desire has to come from within.
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"After Self-Realization, I felt inner peace in the event of a death of a family member, that happened before realizing the Self. The wave of emotions came and i realized it was that wave making me emotional and it was the circumstances that were meant to be like that. Neither the emotions nor the people connected to the situation could touch me anymore which was not the case before, and I felt complete peace thereafter.
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A saying exclamation uttered when one comes to the realization that one has acquired the clap from a dirty ho. It's similar to oh shit but one would use it in a far more serious situation.
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