All Archive Titles articles – Page 160
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Urban resistance
Until recently, all the major jobs in Singapore were swallowed up by international architects. But now the island’s local firms are resisting the foreign domination: not by complaining, as in the past, but by raising their own standards - and it seems to be working.
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Oscar worthy
Sometime social revolutionary, and life-long Communist, Oscar Niemeyer has never been predictable. As the latest addition to Brasília is unveiled, Ricardo Antonio met him to discuss architecture, political exile and the global struggle against poverty.
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The young ones
Young Spanish Architects/Junge Spanische Architekten.David CohnBirkhauser, Basle, SwitzerlandsFr 68, US$40 (paperback)Illustrated colour and b&w throughout.For this fifth volume of the Birkäuser modern European architecture collection, on Spanish architects, the Madrid-based American critic David Cohn worked with 14 studios. The picture that emerges is very promising, both for the group as ...
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US New York Times tower
Foster, Pelli, Piano, Gehry and SOM shortlisted Manhattan’s former red light district, Times Square, is fast becoming a symbol of the new economy, with skyscrapers popping up where more seedy venues used to stand. The crossroads has been recreated by and for the media, with buildings for Condé Nast and ...
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Life and soul
Tadao Ando conceived Yumebutai, his reconstruction of Awaji Island, as a place of peace, tranquility, and a symbol of the rebirth of the city of Kobe.
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Germany Ungers' museum piece
Oswald Mathias Ungers (73), once dubbed the 'father of post-war German architecture' for his radical, rationalist approach, is the latest addition to the list of architects working on the revitalisation of Berlin's Museum Island. Cologne-based Ungers' US$270m commission for a new building for the Pergamonmuseum, which houses Germany's collection of ...
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Water feature
Technical precision has ensured that the glass dome centrepiece of the Osaka Maritime Museum offers a first hand experience of the sea .
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Living on the edge
Robert Powell celebrates Mok Wei Wei’s solution for living in a densely populated, tropical city. The Paterson Edge condominium provides privacy and transparency in equal helpings, with dramatic aesthetic results.
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Only connect
Singapore’s Henderson Community Club and the Bukit Merah West Neighbourhood Police Centre make strange bedfellows in a new development by Forum Architects.
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A city within a city
After years living in the shadow of Barcelona and Seville, Valencia is now developing its own international identity. Lucy Bullivant reports on how the City of Arts and Sciences is giving Calatrava a chance to reshape his birthplace into a dynamic public space.
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This auto be good
Automobiles by ArchitectsIvan MargoliusWiley-Academy, Chichester, UKUS$55, £40 (paperback)Illustrated b&w throughoutDriving across Paris with an ebullient Le Corbusier at the controls of his beloved 1925 Voisin, with its broken windows and missing second gear, Czech architect Karel Honzik must have wondered whether the great architect conceived of the motorcar as a ...
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Sustainable development around the world.
AustraliaThe Olympic Games are being seen as an opportunity to lead by example. Visitors to the Olympic Park will find Energy Australia’s 70 kW rooftop solar power installation on the roof of the basketball venue, the SuperDome, and the Towers of Power which generate solar energy for the grid. The ...
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France/South Korea Peace gives architects a chance
A footbridge in Seoul and a transparent wall at the foot of the Eiffel Tower are just two of the projects by French architects to mark the millennium. Both schemes come under the auspices of France 2000, a government initiative for a series of national and international monuments.The Paris project, ...
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Alternative vision
Earth to Spirit – In Search of Natural ArchitectureDavid PearsonGaia Books, London, UK£11.99, US$18Illustrated colour throughout.‘In Search of Natural Architecture’ is the subtitle to David Pearson’s odyssey Earth to Spirit – a journey which the author has chosen to share through publication of his selected photographs in conjunction with a ...
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Greenbacks for all
New York State has introduced a pioneering scheme offering tax credits for the building of environmentally sustainable buildings. Robert Fox Jr describes how the legislation will encourage green design in one of the world's densest urban environments.
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Family affair
Attention to detail and finish on the Pei Partnership’s Bank of China headquarters building in Beijing have created a new idiom for Chinese architecture. But this has become something of a family tradition.
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Taking advantage
Gary Chang has taken the Hong Kong data centre boom by storm. Nicola Turner reports from his latest ‘computer hotel’, the Jumbo iAdvantage.
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Virgin territory
Run out of space for future projects? Why not create your own island? Such drastic alteration of the land, however, is a complex and expensive business.
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United we stand
Although total collaboration – where all participants in a project work from the same model – is still some way off, engineer Whitby Bird is already reaping some of the benefits.