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Office politics
The European OfficeJuriaan van Meel010 Publishers, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsNLG49.50 (paperback original)182ppLooking at the office buildings so prominent on the skyline of virtually every major city, one can argue that globalisation translates in the cityscape as the replication of an architectural language symbolic of international corporate triumph. Yet, when we look ...
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Mexico
As Mexico recovers from the political, social and economic chaos of the mid-1990's, architects are responding to the opportunities of the 21st century with renewed vigour.
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Mind your mannerisms
Mario Botta: Architectural PoeticsIrena SakellaridouThames & Hudson, London, UK£14.95 (paperback original)240pp. 220 colour illustrationsThis handsome book focuses mainly on Mario Botta's work of the past 10 years. As the title suggests, the chapters are organised around formal and conceptual themes, in the Heideggerian key of the late critic Christian Norberg-Schulz. ...
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Into the light
In one of his finest-ever religious building, Tadao Ando has melded Buddhist tradition with his own humanist beliefs and the power of nature to create a new temple in Saijyo, Japan.
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UK - Scotland's silver jewel
Two silver alienesque pods and a 100m-tall revolving tower have been growing for the last year on the banks of the river Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Netherlands - It's the wheel thing
Capable of holding up to 2,500 cycles, the newly opened multi-storey bicycle shed in Amsterdam is the largest of its kind in the world.
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Hot Property
In March, 15,000 delegates descended on Cannes, France, for the property event of the year. Joining the jamboree were a large number of architects, keen to unveil their latest competition wins and projects. Will Jones reports from MIPIM 2001.
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Room for Growth
In the booming western suburb of Santa Fe, Legorreta Architects has planned a new campus of tree-lined boulevards to accommodate the continuing expansion of the Technological Institute of Monterrey.
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Switzerland - Piano's feat of Klee
The population of Bern has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new Renzo Piano museum designed to house the works of Bern's most famous artist – the painter Paul Klee.
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Fast forward
The 270ha JVC business and cultural centre on the outskirts of Guadalajara is the realisation of a millionaire's dream to revitalise his home town. Enrique Norten and client Jorge Vergara drafted in 11 international architects to make the dream reality.
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PRC - Pei fights to save family home
Rapid and far-reaching development plans in Shanghai are threatening the ancestral home of China's best-known émigré architect – I M Pei.
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US - Designer life on Long Island
Long Island, New York, has long been an architectural zoo – a mish-mash of styles from the historic to the ultra-contemporary.
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Denmark - MVRDV goes with the grain
Radical Dutch practice MVRDV has won a competition to convert two disused grain silos in Copenhagen into apartments.
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The king is dead, long live the king
Don't leave it until the big name in your practice retires, or even dies, to start thinking about future direction. It's never too early to start planning: nurture staff coming up through the ranks, find the natural leaders, and publicise your new strengths.
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US - Dallas gets some history
'Is Dallas, a city once described by author Norman Mailer as looking like "a collection of Kleenex boxes standing on end," ready for Gehry?' asks the Houston Chronicle.
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Czech Republic - Prague embraces the multiplex
Prague – city of Medieval alleyways, Baroque confections and Modernist masterpieces – has entered a new phase.
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Germany - Cutting down to size
The skyline of Frankfurt am Main, Continental Europe's banking capital, bristles with skyscrapers, among them Norman Foster's Commerzbank and Peter Schweger's Main Tower.
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Holding court
One of Mexico's old masters, Teodoro González de León, has designed himself a bright, white modern home in Mexico City's Art Deco-dominated Hipodromo Condesa neighbourhood.
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Clear winner
Kohn Pedersen Fox's innovative use of glass cladding on its new headquarters complex for Gannett/USA Today both reflects and respects its wooded, hilly site.
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Climate of change
This issue of wa coincides with the AIA Convention in Denver. Here, we trawl the convention guide and pull out the most enticing lectures and seminars running alongside the expo, where wa has a stand.