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Archive TitlesClear advantage
Advances in facade engineering mean that curtainwalling can be so fine-tuned that even multi-storey glass facades can be supported with single pre-tensioned cables.
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Worth waiting for
Oscar Niemeyer has unveiled what he considers to be the final element of Brasília's main axis, the 'Cultural Sector', adjacent to the Brazilian capital's iconic cathedral also by Niemeyer
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West side story
Budapest's WestEnd City Center, conceived as a suburban-type mall in the inner city, lives off the commuter traffic of one of the city's busiest stations. It repays the city with hectares of roof gardens.
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The missing link
Hertzberger's latest work, an extension to the Vanderveen Department Store in the Dutch city of Assen, unifies sprawling elements behind a Modernist facade, and demonstrates the Structuralist's ability to work in context.
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Mission impossible
Central to the regeneration of the disused industrial area of the Pirelli works in Milan was the creation of a new focus for the northern part of the city. Cecilia Bolognesi praises much of Gregotti Associati's architecture but regrets a missed opportunity by the city's planners.
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Eastern promise
Urban form from the Arab World - Past and Present Stefano Bianca Thames & Hudson, London UK £22.50 US$39.95 (paperback) 350pp. 280 b&w illustrations & 20 maps. Traditional cities in the Arab world have a specific and exciting quality determined by spiritual elements, which has fascinated architects and architectural historians ...
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Watch this country
Bangalore is a dot.com-friendly, 24-hour kind of town, known locally as Silicon Valley . It is also the site of Conran & Partner s first project in India. Project director James Soane describes his experience there.
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Miraculous conversion
The Lyrick Theatre, Assisi, by Vincenzo Maia is something of a one-off an earthquake-proof insertion into a hangar-like concrete factory, it was conceived in Dallas to perform only one production, a musical about St Francis of Assisi.
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Quietly confident
The new Italian embassy in Washington DC proclaims its country's identity with art inside and out, reviving the genre of embassy architecture.
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Clicks and mortar
Shopping in New York is the ultimate consumer paradise. So what is Manhattan contributing to the retail revolution? We unravel the latest thoughts from Rem Koolhaas, and take a trip to Belmont Freeman Architects' Apartment.
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Motor city
Volkswagen has taken its ethos of producing 'people's cars' a step further. Earlier this year it unveiled its Autostadt theme park, which VW hopes will further involve the people in the company's activities.
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Buying the lifestyle
As consumers become more demanding and time becomes more precious, retailers are searching for ever more unusual ways of attracting customers. One of the most alluring and successful is 'lifestyle retailing'. Provided by Hanscomb
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Archive TitlesA European in British clothing
In the past year, five of the six major competitions run in Italy have been won by British architects, and three of those by David Chipperfield. So why has it been 11 years since he was commissioned to build in the UK?
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Beyond pedestrianisation
Beyond pedestrianisation Lars Lerup MIT Press US$26, £16.50 (hardback) 216pp. 52 b&w illustrations. The metropolis has replaced the city, and architecture as a static enterprise has been displaced by architecture as a form of software. So writes Lars Lerup in the introduction to After the City. It ...
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Awakenings
Angelo Cortesi believes that centuries of conservatism have created a crisis at the heart of Italian architecture. But it's never too late to change. Report co-ordinated by Alessandra Fanelli, editor-in-chief, OFX International, Milan.
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All fired up
Architecture Must Burn: A manifesto for an architecture beyond building. By Aaron Betsky & Erik Adigard. Thames & Hudson, London, UK. £18.95 (paperback). 144pp. 120 colour illustrations. Aaron Betsky s newest book might as well have been named Sprawl: A Manual of Engagement in a World Grown Apart ...
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Tusk masters
'Underground Safari' is the fifth exhibition in the year-long Platform for Art presentation at London Underground's Gloucester Road Tube Station. Kendra Haste's spectacular, life-size 3D sculptures of an African elephant, antelope, a vulture, giraffe and a rhinoceros demanded a special lighting treatment that would breathe life into their wire-based forms. ...
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Market forces
Overall demand for lamps and luminaires in the UK is rising steadily, but manufacturers' sales are growing at a slower rate due to all-pervasive imports and lower levels of demand from once-strong export markets. Brian Sims examines the current state of play in the UK's ...
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The real deal
A market leader when it comes to developing Internet Keyword navigation systems, the RealNames Corporation demanded similarly forward-thinking spatial planning and lighting concepts for its new US hq buildings in California. One lighting solution for workstations, in fact, the other aimed at defining the structures' architectural and spatial elements. ...