The Architectural Review back issues from June 2001:
SEMINAL SCHINDLER.(The Museum of Contemporary Art)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... The Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Isozaki on glittery Bunker Hill, is a less obvious venue for this major exhibit than the same institution's Geffen Contemporary, the garage/warehouse refurbished a decade and a half ago by LA's current star Frank Gehry. Certainly Gehry's ...
ARCHILAB.(Archilab)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... The third annual Archilab happening took place in Orleans in the middle of May. The accompanying exhibition runs until the end of June. Intended as a platform for meetings and exchanges between French and foreign architects, and between architects and developers, it has mushroomed into a ...
MEDALLION MAN.(Jean Nouvel)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... Jean Nouvel has been awarded the RIBA's Royal Gold Medal, the oldest architectural award in the world. RIBA President Marco Goldschmied called him 'an exemplar in the very best tradition of European innovation and adventure'. Nouvel is ...
Cyburbia.(Buffalo University school of architecture's website)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... Cyburbia is the name of Buffalo University school of architecture's website and it's at http://cyburbia.ap.buffalo.edu/pairc/. The less fashionable PAIRC stands for Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Centre of this, the only architecture school in the State University of New York ...
Library of Congress's American Memory.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... On the other hand there are some sites which are ostensibly for a highly specialized audience and which are an active pleasure to use. One such is http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ gschtml/gotthome.html which is part of the Library of Congress's American Memory collection of seven million ...
National Monuments Record.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... I turned gloomily to look at the English equivalent, the National Monuments Record which was crazily relocated in far distant Swindon. Blow me down, the NMR has already digitized 15 000 of its terrific photos of listed English buildings. This, the home page announces, is a prototype for a ...
Doors of Perception.(John Thackara)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... If you ever wondered what happened to once ubiquitous design commentator John Thackara, he's alive and well and running the Amsterdam based Doors of Perception. The url is www.doorsofperccption.com, so no surprises there. No, it's not about the interesting herbs and fungi openly available ...
Chicago Architecture Foundation.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... The Royal Institute of British Architects may have bought the www.architecture.com url but www.architecture.org belongs to the Chicago Architecture Foundation. It's devoted to advancing public interest and education in architecture and design. And it's very impressive. Instead of running ...
Letters.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... Letters to the AR Editor can be sent by e-mail to peter.devey@ebc.emap.com or by fax to +44(0)20 7505 6701 ARCHITECTURAL IMPRINT? SIR: It was commendable to devote an issue of a glossy magazine to doing less with more (AR March). Judging by your 'Comment', you must ...
Erratum.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... The architects of the new extension to the central library at the Aristotle University of Salonica (AR April, p24) have asked us to ...
TATE MODERN: HERZOG & DE MEURON.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... The recolonization of Bankside Power Station to house Tate Modern is a singular and visionary project that supplants obsolete heavy industry with contemporary culture. No one could have anticipated the outstanding public interest generated last year by the opening of the Tate ...
View spectrum 2001.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... At Spectrum 2001, held in May at the Commonwealth Institute, London (previewed in AR May 2001), six exhibits were awarded an AR Spectrum Award for Design Excellence. On this, the fifth occasion, judges were Alison Brooks, of Alison Brooks Architects; designer Thomas Heatherwick; and Steven ...
Letter from Athens.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... Athens is in turmoil as the deadlines for the 2004 Olympic Games approach. Massive public projects are to be built, but the government has been indifferent to architecture built since Classical times. Yet there is a new breeze of hope. Something could be moving in Athens after a ...
Themes and variations.(Milan Furniture Fair)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... The Milan Furniture Fair gives architects and designers the opportunity to test their imagination on the most intimate of scales and this year's event was no exception. Here we look at some of the more intriguing outcomes. How many variations on a chair is it possible to sustain ...
HOUSE RULES.
Jun 01, 2001; ... Particularly in English-speaking countries, architects have a much reduced role in housing, through indifference or lack of opportunity. But for human and environmental reasons, architectural imagination in housing is urgently needed. Housing is the stuff of cities. It takes up ...
IN NORWEGIAN WOODS.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... It may seem odd to start an issue on group housing with a pair of houses in an Oslo suburb, but these are so responsive to landscape, that they suggest many possibilities for larger groupings of houses which could pay similar attention to nature and human response to it. Oslo is ...
ON THE BEACH.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... Medium density joined-up developments are quite unusual on Sydney's sea front where all sites are much sought after. This scheme shows how attention to geometry and detail can create an affordable model for decent living. Sydney has a wonderful subtropical coastline, but a good ...
HIGH POINT.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... A residential tower boldly set in one of Sydney's inner suburbs surprisingly achieves human scale and intimacy by ingenious use of geometry while making an important urban statement that acts as a landmark in the city. If you take a ferry from Circular Quay out into Sydney ...
WESTEND SHOW.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... Two terraces of houses show how suburban development can pay more respect to nature, have higher densities, and achieve individuality through participation. Finland had an extremely severe slump in the early 1990s. Most Western countries did, but Finland's recession was worse ...
BLOCKING TACTICS.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... Reinterpreting the traditional European courtyard block, this decent, dignified housing forms part of a wider masterplan for a former industrial site in Maastricht. It also suggests a model for new urban neighbourhoods. As David Mackay of MBM has observed, current discourses on ...
QUARRY QUINTET.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... On a forgotten site in Kaiserslautern, near the football stadium, this small terrace of houses shows the variety and ecological responsiveness that can be achieved with client collaboration and semi-industrial building methods. Betzenberg is part of Kaiserslautern in the ...
SHUTTERED ROOMS.(Baumschlager and Eberle)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... Distinguished by formal rigour and a concern for energy use, this complex of compactly planned, mixed tenure housing blocks on the edge of Innsbruck is animated by an external skin of folding shutters. Housing (of both the state subsided and private sector funded kind) accounts ...
REVOLTING SUBURBS.(Peabody Trust Housing Association)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... This prototypical scheme in south London combines high density with ecological awareness in an attempt to suggest new models for suburban development. In the UK, the scope for formal and ecological innovation in mass housing is limited, compared with, say, advances in Germany ...
Fashion show.(Claudio Silvestrin)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... The scheme for a new clothes shop in Milan translates the spirit governing design of the merchandise into architecture, and by exaggeration transforms the plan's weakness into strength. The narrow elegant street of St Andrea, running between those of Montenapoleone and Spiga at ...
Leading the dance.(London Contemporary Dance School)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... A new extension to a famous dance centre in the King's Cross district of London rationalizes a rather difficult site, adds spacious new studios, and provides a shop window that establishes its presence locally. The London Contemporary Dance School is to be found at The Place in ...
ARCTIC IDYLL.(Gisle Lokken)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... A small summer house north of the Arctic Circle, in Skarsfjord, is constructed with urban finesse and refinement to make a platform for contemplating the wonders of otherwise untouched wild nature of the north. Skarsfjord is about fifty miles from Tromso inside the Arctic ...
WAAGNER BIRO & OKALUX.(British Museum)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... A new courtyard, the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, has been created in the British Museum, London (AR February 2001). This two-acre space, designed by Foster and Partners, has at its centre the restored Reading Room with its magificent done. To allow the new Great Court around the ...
METALBAU FRUH.(National Botanic Garden)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... The Great Glass House is the largest single-span glasshouse in the world and the focal point of the National Botanic Garden of Wales (AR April 2000), a new 230 hectare park in Carmarthenshire. central Wales. Designed by Foster and Partners, it is an oval glass dome -- 95m long and 55m wide ...
SKYSPAN.(Vista Alegre arena in Madrid)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... The Vista Alegre arena in Madrid, a 14 000-seat venue for bullfights, concerts and theatre performances, has been modernized and a new membrane roof from Skyspan has been installed. The roof, a double-layer pneumatic cushion, is one of the largest examples of its type, with a ...
GKD.(new railway station at St Anton)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... A new railway station at St Anton, in the Tiroler Alps, was completed in time for the Ski World Championship held there in January 2001. The station facade, 170m long, is almost entirely cloaked in a silvery screen of stainless-steel mesh. It allows the building to fit discreetly in ...
NBK KERAMIK.(Renzo Piano)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... Renzo Piano has developed a ceramic facade system which has been used to clad a group of new administrative office buildings on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (AR January 1999). The system has great flexibility: it can bc used in a variety of positions - as string courses or as storey-height ...
GASELL.(12-storey hotel in Hamstard, Sweden)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... A 12-storey hotel in Hamstard, Sweden. is clad with Gasell's Kassett system in the form of 600mm square panels with white polyester powder-coated finish. The Kassett system is a cost-effective rainscreen cladding which is available with closed or open joints, variable modular ...
HAAVER & BOECKER.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... The facade of the P 12th department store in the centre of Mannheim. Germany, incorporates elements of stainless-steel Haver architectural wire cloth. Its entrance is indicated by a cylindrical structure of wire cloth, type EGLA-TWIN, which is tensioned onto a steel ...
WEBER SBD.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001 ... Edward Cullinan Architects has designed a series of academic buildings for the University of East London, on the north bank of the Royal Albert Dock, London (AR March 2001). They are of steel frame construction, infilled with cast in-situ concrete or blockwork, and are clad with an ...
THE SPACE OF ENCOUNTER.(Review)
Jun 01, 2001; ... By Daniel Libeskind. London: Thames and Hudson. 2001. [pound]22.95 It is astonishing that Daniel Libeskind can write so much nonsense without endangering his reputation. I fear that in certain circles it actually helps: Koolhaas's SMLXL, which has page after page of childish ...
WINDOWS IN BUILDINGS.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... By N. Abodahad, J. Kubie, Tariq Muneer. Oxford: Architectural Press. 2000. [pound]50 This is a genuinely useful review of the performance of windows, which pulls no punches in relation to physics and mathematics. The book deals with performance in five main chapters, ...
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.(Gavin Keeney)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... By Gavin Keeney. Basel: Birkhauser, 2000. DM118 In the first of two forewords to this hook John Dixon Hunt writes 'Contemporary landscape architecture is concerned, with good reason, to defend itself against charges of anti or un-intellectualism'. In the second foreword Alan ...
PETER BEHRENS AND A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.(Review)
Jun 01, 2001; ... By Stanford Anderson. London: MIT Press. 1999, [pound]41.50 Although they dominated the scene a century ago, Peter Behrens and contemporaries such as Olbrich and van de Velde seem so remote to us now that it is hard to imagine, let alone empathize with, the excitement of their ...
BREUER HOUSES.(Review)
Jun 01, 2001; ... By Joachim Driller. London: Phaidon. 2000. [pound]35 RICHARD NEUTRA, COMPLETE WORKS By Barbara Lamprecht. Cologne: Taschen, 2000. [poun]100 Following the Great War, Richard Neutra left Austria for Wright in America, whereas Marcel Breuer, 10 years younger, ...
Delight.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 2001; ... RENAISSANCE MEN COULD BE BOTH SOLDIERS AND SCHOLARS, BUSINESSMEN AND HUMANISTS. THEY COULD COMMAND SOME OF THE BEST ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN EVER SEEN. NOWHERE MORE SO THAN AT GUBBIO. Duke Federico da Moltefeltro was the best general in bloody and turbulent mid-fifteenth-century ...