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Style over substance
10 x 10 Critics, 100 ArchitectsVarious authorsPhaidon Press, London, UK.£35 / US$59.95 (hardback)1,000 colour and 500 b&w illustrations.The premise behind 10 x 10 is that in asking ten ‘international critics’ each to select ten ‘emerging architects’, a vast range of ‘new and exceptional’ global architectural practices will be represented in ...
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Spaced out
Space ArchitectureBy Rachel Armstrong, edited by Maggie ToyJohn Wiley, Chichester, UK.£20 / US$39.95 (paperback).Illustrated b&w throughout. ¶ Space architecture, the definitive writings? Or perhaps the first attempt to define such a topic? The introduction promises that what follows will dispel the myth of what is impossible. Simply, it comes ...
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Smooth operator
For the design and construction of state-of-the-art production facilities, multinationals such as IBM are still looking to fellow Americans to realise their dreams.
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Two into one
Until June this year, there had been no formal contact between South and North Korea since 1948. As reunification becomes a real possibility, Inchon Airport, a potent symbol of unity and monumental statement of intent, is fast emerging outside Seoul.
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Where to now?
We talk to the key players in the development of construction IT, and some of its most influential users, to ask how today’s technology is changing the building industry.
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Home-grown talent
Two projects by a local architect for local clients, using local subcontractors, prove that Shenzhen is fast catching up with international building standards.
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Three-part harmony
The gothic interior of Chartres cathedral has long been recognised as a touchstone for transcendence in architecture. A nearby school seeks to continue the tradition – in a modernist style.
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Regional giants
From Hamburg to Cape Town, seven of the world’s leading interior designers look back over 12 months of widespread growth and prosperity.
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Playing to the gallery
Hong Kong practice Sherman Kung & Associates has designed China’s first private art gallery, the only one named after an individual artist. It’s also the country’s best museum.
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World Survey of the top one hundred interior design firms
Since its inception nearly 10 years ago, wa’s annual survey of the 300 largest architecture practices in the world has become the industry bible. For the first time, wa 100 Interiors reveals the world’s largest interior design firms of the past 12 months.
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Where eagles dare
Rebuilding the ReichstagNorman Foster et alWeidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK£40 / US$60 (hardback).Illustrated colour and b&w throughout.We must go back to 1962, and Sir Basil Spence’s Phoenix at Coventry to find a book comparable to this. Which is to say, a personal account, by its own architect, of a controversial ...
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Return of the cybermen
We’ve known for a long time that entire design projects can now be executed in cyberspace, but the first wave of true internet project collaboration portals were only unveiled at the AEC Systems trade show earlier this year.
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Cast-iron wizard
SoHo’s Scholastic building, home to Harry Potter’s New York publisher, is the first and last Rossi original in the city – the Italian legend was killed in a car crash three years ago. As it opens this month.
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The teaching business
If you don’t learn how to design with electrochromic glazing at school, when do you learn? These days the best way to get training on technically complex products is through the manufacturers themselves. But doesn’t this create a conflict of interest?
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Bull in a China shop
Twenty-five years ago the south China city of Shenzhen did not exist, except in the form of a small farming community. In 1979, Deng Xiao Peng declared Shenzhen Special Economic Zone the testbed for economic reform and fast-track development.
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Boxing clever
Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet’s artists’ lofts in San Francisco look like a simple wooden box, but are more complicated than that, and reveal the duo’s interest in the city’s street plan and local traditions of wooden construction.
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PRC New artery for Paris of the East
French architect wins commission for 5km-long boulevard in Shanghai
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Imaging all the people
Computers have given architecture a new visual identity. From Zaha Hadid’s exquisite concept images to Asymptote’s virtual buildings, the representation of built space has entered a new dimension. We asks the new model makers where the art stops and the architecture begins.
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Scene action
Architects on Stage: Stage and Exhibition Design in the 90sPedro Azara & Carlos GuriPta 4,500 / US$27.50 (paperback).Illustrated colour and b&w throughout. ¶ Scenography, as an allied but distinct practice to architecture that represents the space of dreams and seduction, has flourished in times of imperial greatness, baroque mysticism ...