stadium + apartments

Herzog & de Meuron’s design for stadium and apartment megastructure in Portsmouth, England.

Bettina Funcke talks with Peter Sloterdijk in Against Gravity:

But when I highlight the apartment and the sports stadium as the most important architectural innovations of the modern, it isn’t out of art- or cultural-historical interest. Instead my aim is to give a new account of the history of atmospheres, and in my view, the apartment and the sports stadium are important primarily as atmospheric installations. They play a central role in the development of abundance, which defines the open secret of the modern.