An Unrealized Project

A few days ago, my friend Guillermo in Barcelona sent a link to me. It was La Fontaine Sports Complex in the city of Antony, France. It reminded him of one of our unrealized projects. Yes, architecture is a glorious business with many broken dreams.

Back in 2012, an old college friend called me for a project in Yinchuan, China. I was in Shanghai at the time. Yinchuan is far away from Shanghai and I was skeptical of the validity. But I still took the project on since it was my studio’s second year in business and we needed jobs.

The bid was to propose a conceptual design for a sports venue.

Guillermo, my chief architect then, created an ingenious scheme. Using triangular panels to form the roof, and he created light and air penetration by the ups and downs of the panel folds.

In the end, the design remained on paper, and the project was canceled later. We architects are just a small part of a big scheme. However, the creation lives in our hearts, and now, on the Internet.

May dreams come true.