From then on, there was no more floating on water, no more electrical lighting, no more water reflections. Only the aluminium structure with transparent polycarbonate plates was left. The pavilion definitely lost its poetic aspects of weightless and blurring architecture.
The estimated renovation costs rose year after year. The Flemish government wanted to bear a good part of the costs, Toyo Ito proposed his services for the renovation, but the city of Bruges did not feel the pavilion was worth it.
Notes:
1. Hera Van Sande, Toyo Ito builds the Bruges 2002 pavilion, Stichting Kunstboek, Oostkamp 2002
2. See Marc Dubois, Barbarij in Brugge, De Standaard, 02/08/2013
3. Hera Van Sande, Toyo Ito builds the Bruges 2002 pavilion, Stichting Kunstboek, Oostkamp 2002
4. Bernard Tschumi, The Manhattan Transcripts, Academy Editions, London 1994, 2nd edition, p.9
5. See Hera Van Sande, Toyo Ito wint de Pritzker prijs, www.archipelvzw.be/agenda/440, June 2013