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Article: RAINBOW ROOMS.(Berlin building wins design award)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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A research centre in Berlin for optics announces its functions by ingenious use of colour.
Sauerbruch Hutton's Photonics Centre in an industrial suburb of Berlin has been quite extensively published, but that was no reason for it not to be recognized in the ar+d awards. Fundamentally, it is a couple of curvy glass buildings set within a large, calm, three-sided court defined by reticent 1960s work. The architects argue that the forms of the new blocks are determined by specific site conditions, and by the desire to reduce the overall mass of the new work.
Of the two buildings, the larger has quite a deep plan, in the middle of which is a central spine ...