Parallels: Modern Design Mimics Historic Architecture

The above image is taken from a designboom article about a new auditorium design in Madrid. (Image by miguel de guzmán / imagen subliminal) 

izaskun chinchilla’s design seeks to bring new life to the building hosting casa decor 2017  — a historic residence that dates back to the early 1900s. ‘the aesthetic fascination for ruinous places, inhabited with provisional means, has today a new sense and a new validity,’ says the architect. ‘the work of an architect or contemporary architect in europe is fundamentally oriented to the transformation of existing buildings: we already have the infrastructure, but our needs evolve daily.’

When I saw the above image on designboom I was immediately reminded of a Gothic cathedral ceiling, specifically the vaulted ceilings inside the Cologne cathedral (Koelner Dom) in Germany because I am familiar with it:

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