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Álvaro Siza: Complete Works
Álvaro Siza: Complete WorksKenneth FramptonPhaidon Press, London, UK£60 (hardback)620pp. 220 colour illustrations, 145 b&w, 300 line drawings.This book may be large and long, but its gravity comes not from scale or spectacle, but from achieving a simple ambition: to disseminate a body of work. To accomplish this, the publishers have ...
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Spain - Calatrava takes on all comers
In an interview in the Spanish newspaper El País, Santiago Calatrava has claimed that a new bridge in Barcelona harbour has been copied from his competition design for the same project.
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City Transformed: Urban Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century
City Transformed: Urban Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st CenturyKenneth PowellLaurence King Publishing£45 (Hardback)256pp. 200 colour illustrations, 130 b&wKen Powell's new book provides a good overview of model development in a number of cities that have seized opportunities to create a future, where there might otherwise be only a ...
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Wizards of Oz
The quality of Australian domestic architecture is no longer a secret. We reveal that away from the international style of Sydney and Melbourne are works of honesty, craft and lyricism.
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The movers and shakers
Five of the greatest movers in the World Architecture top 300 league table are quizzed about the secrets of their success.
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Value judgement
Comparing construction prices between countries is fraught with difficulty, due to the host of local variations. The Hanscomb Index helps to establish a basis for comparison. Editors of this series are Gary Mardon, London, and Tom Wiggins, Atlanta.
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Introduction
The wa300 survey – the world's most comprehensive overview of architectural practices across the globe – reveals a healthy picture. Practices are growing and fee income has increased over the past year. We look at what the results reveal about the present and the future.
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Europe energised
Economic confidence has enthused Europe's architects to produce a range of dynamic designs to match the mood.
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Domes of discovery
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners is known for its high-tech structures, such as London's Waterloo International Terminal. Now it has turned its hand to the biggest greenhouse in the world – a series of 'biomes' inspired by Buckminster Fuller.
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United States Art movement
Museums will be 2001's winners, from a Seattle 'art garage' to a Las Vegas double act, while New York makes shopping an art.
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A different angle
Ron Arad – one of the world's most radical design activists – is the mastermind behind some of the most radical furniture designs available today. We find out where the inspiration lies.
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Asia/Australia Speeding ahead
With opportunities in China, Australia's Olympic springboard and Japan's economic recovery, 2001 promises to be another action-packed year.
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African voice
Architectural design as a route to reconciliation of conflicts is scoring as many failures as successes.
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Collaborate to accumulate
Who do architects want on board to help them realise a project? The wa300 Quality of Service Vote finds out who are the architects' favourites and how they see the global construction industry.
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wa300 league table
The top 300 architecture practices ranked by the number of fee-earning architects they employ.
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WA 300 Alphabetical Index & Geographical index
wa 300 Geographical indexARGENTINA195= Mario Roberto Alvarez & AssociatesSolis 310 Ist D Buenos Aires 1078Tel: +54 11 3746330Fax: +54 11 3753796Email: hbernabo@mraya.comContact: Bernabo H, partnerAUSTRALIA132= Allen Jack & Cottier59 Buckingham Street, Surrey Hills, NSW 2010Tel: +61 93118222Fax: +61 93118200Web: www.ajcarch.com.auContact: ...
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The view from the top
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has a fight on its hands. It has to throw off the stuffy image of its previous incarnation, the RFAC; find a role among all the other architecture organisations; and do battle with PFI. Will a move this month to offices in ...
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Through the Labyrinth
This is a book that, if found in a bookshop, would immediately demand my attention.