Following on issues first touched upon with their maiden London intervention, Herzog and De Meuron make use of the city's industrial heritage as the material substance of the project. If in the Tate Modern, the removal of its machinery revealed the spatial quality of the power station's Turbine Hall, the operation exercised with the Laban comes up with a revelation of a larger magnitude. The Laban is set to awaken a latent urbanity in an act where the 'Post-' could stand for transformation rather than the decay of what seems a decaying urban form. >>>
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