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VIDEO PAVILION BUS STOP
OMA, 1989-1990, Emmaplein, Groningen
Videopaviljoen Bus Stop / Video Pavilion Bus Stop ( OMA )
© 2011 Ossip van Duivenbode

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Rem Koolhaas

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
OMA

BUILDING TYPE:
Street furniture


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Architectural Events in Groningen

For the event ‘What a Wonderful World! Music videos in architecture’ in 1990, five pavilions were built in which videoclips were shown. Only two remain in the city of Groningen: a glass pavilion by Bernard Tschumi and the OMA bus stop. The OMA Video-busstop pays homage to De Stijl, by way of the three orthogonally placed perpendicular planes, but mostly to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion. In particular, the use of materials is Miesian, glass (roof), steel (a steel curtain), marble/stone (with words that refer to the displayed video clips). A straight quote from the Barcelona Pavilion is the cross-shaped stainless steel column.
The pavilions by Coop Himmelb(l)au and Zaha Hadid were removed and stored after the event was finished. The pavilion by Zaha Hadid was reconstructed in 2007 in Appingedam; the pavilion by Coop Himmelb(l)au was reconstructed in Delfzijl. The pavilion by Peter Eisenman is lost.