Architecturally speaking, the industrial typology of factories has always served as both inspiration and frustration. While modernism has seen the virtues of industrial warehouses as the ideal balance between space and expression with no ornamentation, others have lamented its lack of human warmth and relationship to a natural landscape. Enter Thomas Heatherwick. Sadly now postponed indefinitely, his Teeside Biomass Power Station in the United Kingdom represented a deconstruction of the factory typology and attempts to melt in a natural landscape with what can otherwise be described as the dull industrial process of electricity generation.
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