Skateable architecture, intentionally so!
Factory Youth Movement is a community center in Merida, Spain with skatepark facilities blending into the landscape architecture. Or from a different vantage point, skateable terrain nestling and nurturing the building it was designed for. Pipets loaded and ready. Petri dish courtesy of Selgas Cano. Factory Youth Movement, I ‘m pretty sure I used to have one of their 10″ extended dance singles.
[Source: Simple Genius – Photos: Arch Daily] – Thanks to Betsy Gordon for the tip.
If they built these in the states, they would also have to include a parking lot nearby for ambulance chasers.
You can’t build them in the states because we hate nice things. I like my skatepark filled with trash, drugs, thugs and fire thank you very much.
and like any intended for skateboarding space, there’s some douchebags without skateboards sitting on the obstacles.
My youth counsellor was/is my skateboard