The Architectural Review articles from August 2003

The Architectural Review archives from August 2003

The world's leading emerging architecture award.
August 1, 2003... JURY The Jury will be: SHIGERU BAN Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan AHMED BUCHEERY Gulf House Engineering, Manama, Bahrain FRANCOISE-HELENE JOURDA Jourda Architects, Paris, France FARSHID MOUSSAVI ...

Grand project: by occupying sight lines drawn between Cairo and the pyramids, heneghan.peng.architects' competition-winning scheme for the Grand Museum of Egypt uses light to span between ancient culture and modern complexity.(View)
August 1, 2003... UNKNOWN ARCHITECTS FROM IRELAND WIN ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS FOR THE GRAND MUSEUM OF EGYPT NEAR THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA; MAJOR BERLIN RETROSPECTIVE OF RATIONALIST JOSEF PAUL KLEIHUES AT 70; VIEW FROM BHUTAN; CHARLES...

Kleihues at 70: a major Berlin retrospective of the work and life of Josef Paul Kleihues shows that his influence is still strongly felt.(View)
August 1, 2003... The standing and reputation of Josef Paul Kleihues in contemporary German architecture is well recognized. Since he opened his own architectural practice in Berlin in 1962, Kleihues' work and influence has been strongly linked with the history...

Unflaggingly, Sutherland Lyall tunnels for ore in the huge mountains of cyberworld.(Browser)
August 1, 2003... Interventionists found I know we don't go around plugging Lawrence King's or Thames & Hudson's current new titles lists but that's precisely what I'm doing for CD publisher In-D. It flogs CDs of important, newish architects. It's not a...

New (Old) paradigm?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... SIR: Whether or not there is a new paradigm in architecture and if so, is it worthy, are issues for debate and as my article suggested (AR February) one should be sceptical of all such claims. Nevertheless an argument has to be made and, in the...

AR self-decon.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... SIR: I couldn't agree more with Peter Davey's swipe at Charles Jencks's wacky theories of fractal geometry et al at the end of his critique of Federation Square (AR May 2003) and I see where you stand. However I didn't realize how committed you...

Moving disappointment.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... SIR: I am disappointed to see your feature on the Moving Image Centre, Sydney (AR May). Could you not find enough 'entertainment' buildings to fill the issue? I thought you published features on built buildings rather than virtual images of...

Re: Architecture for All.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... SIR: Thank you for mentioning the Architecture for All Project and Campaign (Browser, AR June, p28). The article was however somewhat incorrect as the Adopt a Drawing Scheme which forms part of the [pounds sterling]10 million campaign to...

Barded.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... SIR: As a graduate of Bard College and an intern architect, I was delighted to read your article on the new Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at my alma-mater by Gehry Partners (AR July). Two things I would like to note in...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
August 1, 2003... The photo credit for Contemporary Art Museum, Cincinnari by Zaha Hadid (AR July, p38) should have read John E. Linden/Arcaid.

View from Bhutan: in Bhutan, life and architecture have changed little for the last four centuries. But urbanization, electricity and television have started to make irreversible changes.(View)
August 1, 2003... Protected by its formidable geography, Bhutan has been isolated until quite recently. It was only fifty years ago that it started to open and it was not till 1974 that tourism began. Today fewer than 6000 tourists visit per year. Its population...

September.(View)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Next month's issue looks at architecture for mixed use. Variety is the spice of life, so it is said, yet reconciling different functions within the same building is often fraught with problems. However, mixed use is vital to the health of...

Glazed eyrie: long cherished in popular imagination, the traditional rustic tree-house is given a dynamic new twist in this ingenious all-glass protoype.(Design Review)
August 1, 2003... Made famous by Tarzan, the tree-house has long occupied a cherished niche in popular imagination. The French were particularly enthusiastic exponents of tree life; a Parisian pleasure garden became famous in the early twentieth century for its...

Glass action: glass is one of the most rapidly changing building materials. Future developments will lead to responsive architectures, the nature of which we can only begin to imagine.(Comment)
August 1, 2003... 'Who, when he first saw the sand and ashes by a casual intenseness of heat melted into metalline form, rugged with excrescences and clouded with impurities, would have imagined that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of...

Boxing with light: Tadao Ando's new museum at Fort Worth both learns from Kahn's great Kimbell and copes with the scale and nature of contemporary art.
August 1, 2003... Building next to an internationally recognized masterpiece is inevitably a daunting task, but to create a building of similar type to the great work is a challenge that few can rise to. Tadao Ando won the competition for the Fort Worth Modern...

Conical reflections: Erickson's Tacoma Museum of Glass celebrates manufacture and material qualities of one of humankind's greatest inventions.(Arthur Erickson)(Cover Story)
August 1, 2003... Arthur Erickson is a master of raised urban ground. His splendid piazza in Vancouver, which gently makes green public terraces in the middle of the city to greet the court building (AR July 1980) is surely one of the great triumphs of...

Under the net: wrapped in a crystalline grid, this new store in Tokyo marks the latest step in Prada's plans for world fashion domination.
August 1, 2003... Like a modern Medici with matching accessories. Miuccia Prada and her eponymous fashion house have become synonymous with a shrewdly intrepid approach to architectural patronage. Since 1999, Prada has embarked on a programme of new store...

Full colour: intended as a landmark in an otherwise dreary part of the city, this building incorporates latest glass technology and passive energy devices.(Sauerbruch & Hutton designs Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG's laboratory)
August 1, 2003... Sauerbruch Hutton's pharmacological laboratories for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG in Biberach, south-west Germany are intended to be a landmark in an otherwise neat but dull industrial research complex. In essence, the building has a routine...

Eco tower: glass towers are not necessarily eco friendly. This one shows how new architecture can be evolved from ecological and humane principles.
August 1, 2003... Murphy/Jahn's Post Tower dominates Bonn's former government quarter which forms the city edge against the Rhineside Central Park. Formally, the tower complements Egon Eiermann's Langer Eugen tower, previously for the civil service and now to be...

Glass cloister: clad in a shimmering glazed skin, Japan's new national library is a dignified modern shrine to the transforming power of knowledge that explores the properties of glass.
August 1, 2003... Modelled on the US Library of Congress, Japan's National Diet Library was established in 1948. Originally it housed material from the Diet (Japanese parliament) libraries and the Imperial Library, dating back to the latter half of the...

Light industry: a new warehouse for lighting company Erco is given a dynamic twist through an ingenious translucent glass skin seductively animated by light.(Erco Lighting)
August 1, 2003... All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry--undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking. Erco, the innovative German lighting company, was determined that...

Desk jockeys: just add glass ... how new light has transformed a dingy courtyard garden into a new shared atrium for EMI.(Interior Design)
August 1, 2003... As the environmental debate has moved from green to brown fields, it is time to add grey buildings to the agenda: a generation of redundant buildings that sit empty and abandoned in the shadow of an apparently relentless new generation of...

In the woods: an architect's own house in the Hudson Valley is designed to evoke Rousseau's simplicity and nature worship.
August 1, 2003... To 'do something simple well' was Architecture Research Office (ARO) partner Adam Yarinsky's primary aim in building his own country house. * [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The house sits in a clearing on a steep wooded site in upstate New...

Transparency.(Product Review)
August 1, 2003... Rob Gregory reviews the latest transparent materials. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION...

Corus.(Specifier's Information)
August 1, 2003... Once again. Kalzip proves the durability of its unique alloy. Building on the BAM report published in 1993, Kalzip has retested its alloys to prove their performance. A high proportion of Kalzip exists in aggressive environments in terms of...

Gooding Aluminium.(Specifier's Information)
August 1, 2003... GA steps to the top of the class: GA versatility Step-Up Stair Trims have scored full marks at Uxbridge College. Able to withstand the constant wear and tear of busy college life, the innovative product was chosen as it combined durability with...

Vetrotech Saint-Gobain.(Specifier's Information)
August 1, 2003... Vetrotech Saint-Gobain, the world's leading manufacturer of fire resisting glass, has published its 2003 product selector. As a valuable guide it helps specifiers to choose the right glass for any application, as well as being a comprehensive...

Oval 316.(Specifier's Information)
August 1, 2003... Oval 316 tubing has been installed in the recently restored fourteenth-century Haseley Barn, which now houses the Aston Martin Owners Club offices, the Aston Martin Heritage Trust's Library, Museum and a selection of their historic cars. As...

Schott.(Specifier's Information)
August 1, 2003... Glass fibre-optic lighting from SCHOTT has been used to light the gigantic spherical centrepiece in Volkswagen's new factory visitors' centre in Dresden, Germany. Standing 12m high, the sphere constantly changes colour with 240 light scources...

Gooding Aluminium.(Specifier's Information)
August 1, 2003... Gooding Aluminium makes a really big impression: Impressional decorative cladding has been used by Orange to display products at the recent Comet Roadshow. A 65mm dorne-shaped pattern was used to create the high-tech look of the cladding panels...

Gooding Aluminium.(Specifier's Information)
August 1, 2003... GA's versatile and imaginative range of Impressional decorative cladding has made a strong visual statement for Lloyds TSB in Birmingham, with mill finish aluminium with its satin sheen being used extensively throughout the staff restaurant...

Ansorg.(Specifier's Information)
August 1, 2003... Maxx comprises a range of luminaries of uniform formal design for a wide variety of lighting requirements. Due to their innovative reflector technology, Maxx downlights are ideal for applications in office environments with PC workstations....

Civic dimensions: public places, urban spaces: the dimensions of urban design.(Reviews)(Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... PUBLIC PLACES, URBAN SPACES: THE DIMENSIONS OF URBAN DESIGN By Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc and Steve Tiesdell. Oxford: Architectural Press. 2003. [pounds sterling]24.99 This is a textbook. Its intention is to collect and...

Transparent problems: The glass state: the technology of the spectacle, Paris 1981-1998.(Reviews)(The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle, Paris 1981-1998.)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... THE GLASS STATE: THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE SPECTACLE, PARIS 1981-1998. By Annette Fierro, London: MIT. 2003, [pounds sterling]29.95 Annette Fierro is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the stated topic...

Rowe's Renaissance: Italian architecture of the 16th century.(Reviews)(Italian Architecture of the 16th Century Italian Architecture of the 16th Century )(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE OF THE 16TH CENTURY By Colin Rowe and Leon Satkowski, New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 2002. [pounds sterling]24.95 Colin Rowe (1920-1999) may be best known to readers of The Architectural Review for The...

Power of the survey: mapping in the age of digital media.(Reviews)(Mapping in the Age of Digital Media.)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... MAPPING IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA By Mike Silver and Diana Balmori. Chichester: John Wiley. 2003, [pounds sterling]24.95 'Mapping' has become so hackneyed a term that it is easy to overlook its pervasive and enduring influence in our...

Wonderful wood: wood-materials for inspirational design.(Reviews)(Wood: Materials for Inspirational Design)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... WOOD-MATERIALS FOR INSPIRATIONAL DESIGN By Chris Lefteri. Hove: RotoVision. 2003. [pounds sterling]27.50 This is a lovely book. The author invites you to 'browse, tuck in and enjoy' it, and you certainly will. It is high on image and...

The Garden from the Desert.(Delight)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... CHRISTOPHER BRADLEY-HOLE'S WINNING DESIGN AT THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW ENCAPSULATES THE VISION THAT SAW THE BARREN LAND OF THE UAE TRANSFORMED INTO AN ECOLOGICALLY RICH AND DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT. As the main constituent of Glass, the changing...