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Article: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS.(Hanover, Germany's International Trade Fair administration tower)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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This sophisticated stubby tower at the Hanover trade-fair grounds was built as a permanent exposition of Expo 2000's theme Man-Nature-Technology, showing the best environmental control techniques of the turn of the century.
Passive and active energy-saving devices are no longer exceptional in Germany. Legislation encourages solar energy use and wind parks. Environment taxes on fuel have increased insulation standards. Eco-architecture no longer has to make ideological statements with symbolic features. As one of the latest examples, Hanover's International Trade Fair administration tower looks no more spectacular than a Japanese lantern of screen facades and ...