Recently added articles from The Architectural Review:
Specialisation has its limits.(view)
Aug 01, 2008; Finch, Paul ... PAVILIONS ARE THE FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH IN LONDON, WITH FRANK GEHRY AT THE SERPENTINE GALLERY, AND AROUND THE CITY FOR THE LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE; UIA CONGRESS IN TURIN; PETER COOK ENGAGES WITH SWEDEN'S 'CHIRPIES' AND 'COMFIES'; AR AWARDS EXHIBITION TRAVELS. This issue ...
London: city of summer pavilions. As the 2008 Serpentine Pavilion nears completion ...(GEHRY BUILDS A PAVILION)
Aug 01, 2008; Gregory, Rob ... Conceived as a simple wooden box that creates a street that runs from park to gallery, the eight completed Serpentine Pavilion brings to Frank Gehry his first realised project in England. Suspended in typical Gehry fashion, a series of glass canopies give shelter to what is described more ...
... the London Festival of Architecture goes pavilion mad, with over 20 temporary structures across the city.(LFA BUILDS PAVILIONS)
Aug 01, 2008; Gregory, Rob ... In August 2004, The Architectural Review reported on London's first architecture biennale, a 10 day programme of events that focused attention on Clerkenwell, the area in London with more architects than taxi drivers. The second biennale in 2006 extended its reach from Southwark to Camden, ...
The UIA's international travelling circus touched down in Turin for four days of discourse and design.(THE ITALIAN JOB)
Aug 01, 2008; Slessor, Catherine ... Turin, city of Fiat, Nietzsche and The Italian Job, was the latest venue for the triennial travelling circus of the UIA Congress. Appropriately, for such a car-struck metropolis, proceedings took place in the Lingotto Fiere, Fiat's sprawling former plant now refurbished by Renzo Piano into ...
AR travelling exhibition.(Architectural Review)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... While the first entry for this year's AR Awards has arrived in the office, the exhibition of 2007 winners is travelling the world. Organised in Germany by AR Awards sponsor Wilkhahn, the exhibition has been to Hanover and is currently on show in the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin ...
How many for the tango?(view)
Aug 01, 2008; Cook, Peter ... What to do about Sweden? The valedictory television time devoted to the late Ingmar Bergman did not dwell on the architectural aspects of his complex private life-but we can enjoy the fact that he could sneak out of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre, across the bridge and down the stairs ...
On the wing; Beijing's new airport marks the latest phase in the evolution of a quintessentially modern building type.(comment)
Aug 01, 2008; Slessor, Catherine ... Don't let anyone tell you that size doesn't matter. At 1.3 million square metres, Beijing's new Terminal 3 is, according to its architects, the first building in the world to break the 1 million square metre barrier. 'Forget T5, here's T-Rex', declared architectural writer Martin Spring ....
The dragon spreads its wings: in its huge scale, technical ambition, and speed of construction, Beijing's new airport is powerfully emblematic of China's radical reinvention.
Aug 01, 2008; Abel, Chris ... The opening this year of Beijing International Airport's Terminal 3 in advance of the Olympic Games, is an auspicious occasion, not only for China, but also for its designers. In 1986, working with Arup's engineers, Foster + Partners completed the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Headquarters, ...
Grace, speed and rigour: Beijing's structure is an elegant model of leanness, fluency and economy.(structure)
Aug 01, 2008; Wells, Matthew ... The structure of Beijing's new terminal uses the minimum of means to achieve its effects. Though the basic format is familiar--a steel canopy over a concrete plinth, glass side screens and internal mezzanines--it is the rigour with which the structural decisions are carried through and the ...
Servicing the dragon: the services strategy is ingenious, energy conscious and executed in record time.(services)
Aug 01, 2008; Stillman, David ... The design of the airport's building services was a triumph of planning and execution on a scale probably not seen since the D-Day landings. When the Foster + Partners and Arup competition team was awarded the contract, they were given only around eight weeks to produce the design ...
On site: involving a cast of thousands, building Beijing was a titantic endeavour of will and manpower.(Construction)(Column)
Aug 01, 2008; Sudjic, Deyan ... In the 15 years since I first went to Beijing, I have seen three entirely different airports, all of them on the same site. The first had the flavour of a provincial Balkan bus station: a single circular terminal, with hard wooden benches, a kiosk selling brandy in ornamental bottles ...
On cloud nine: Michael Webb visited the new terminal just after it opened and discovered a rare oasis of calm and civility.(travellers' tales)(Column)
Aug 01, 2008; Webb, Michael ... Beijing Airport is an unequivocal masterpiece: the culmination of everything this team has striven to achieve for forty years, in the lucidity of its plan, the boldness of its expression and the audacity of its structure. The world's largest building seems ready to fly away. In the early ...
Three is the magic number; Catherine Slessor flew from London to Beijing, from airport purgatory to airport paradise.(traveller's tales)
Aug 01, 2008; Slessor, Catherine ... The trajectory from Heathrow Terminal 3 to Beijing Terminal 3 is one of those compelling studies in contrasts that neatly crystallises a wider Zeitgeist. Completed in 1961, London's Terminal 3 is a broad but decidedly mongrel church, serving American, Asian and African long haul. Despite ...
The onward journey: Beijing represents the latest leap in the compelling evolution of the airport as a modern building type.(history)
Aug 01, 2008; Pearman, Hugh ... All airport terminals are designed to handle people in a state of suspended being. Once past security, you are effectively in C. S. Lewis's Wood between the Worlds, that prototype multiverse of 1955. From there you can conveniently get to any other world just by jumping into the right pool ...
Pedigree & form: the work of Norman Foster has appeared in The Architectural Review for five decades, displaying an unparalleled depth and breadth of work across the world. We sample from a rich mix.
Aug 01, 2008; Finch, Paul ... The first appearance came in July 1967, with the brief publication of the Reliance Controls facility near Swindon. The building had come in at just under [pounds sterling]3 10s per square foot, and the commission had included design of entrance hall and canteen tables, conference furniture ...
Fostering the future: after the triumph of Beijing, what comes next for Foster + Partners?(the future)
Aug 01, 2008; Sudjic, Deyan ... The word 'brand' is one to use with extreme caution in connection with architecture. It suggests a resort to self parody, and the production of buildings that go through the motions of an applied formula, with the intention of producing recognisable signature buildings as a substitute for ...
Credits.(Brief article)(List)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Client Beijing Capital International Airport Company Joint venture NACO Foster Arup Architect Foster + Partners: Norman Foster Mouzhan Majidi Brian Timmoney Loretta Law ...
ARCHITECTURE: BETWEEN SPECTACLE AND USE.
Aug 01, 2008; Pavlovits, Daniel ... Architecture between Spectacle and Use is a timely volume investigating the condition, application and critique of the 'spectacle' in contemporary and modern architecture, citing significant examples, themes and issues concerning contemporary architecture in the context of late-capitalism ....
HAWAIIAN MODERN: THE ARCHITECTURE OF VLADIMIR OSSIPOFF.
Aug 01, 2008; Webb, Michael ... This handsome, scholarly survey of the productive career of a Russian-born architect who settled in Hawaii in 1931 and worked there until his death in 1998, accompanies an exhibition that was first presented at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and will travel to Yale in September and to ...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL HANDBOOK.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2008; Bennetts, Rab ... By Feilden Clegg Bradley, London: Rightangle Publications. 2007. [pounds sterling]24.99 It would have been entirely out of character -and unnecessary-for Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) to publish one of those glossy, uncritical monographs that are de rigueur for architectural ...