A+U Monthly 2006:10 Temporary Works
a+u 2006:10
Currents: Herzog & de Meuron Plans to Transform Tate Modern Zaha Hadid Designs Three High-rise Towers in Dubai
Jean Nouvel Guthrie Theater
Á lvaro Joaquim Melo Siza Vieira Ribera-Serrallo Sports Complex
Feature 1: 3 Temporary Works
Temporary architecture has the image of being, among other things, mobile, lightweight and low-cost. Unlike “Architecture”, it is not expected to be permanent. Free of the burden of such an expectation, it can take on a more variegated expression. The architect can try experimental materials and methods without excessive regard for building performance, precisely because the period of use is limited; moreover, a limited budget forces the architect to create a work of clear-cut expression. The three works introduced here were produced under different conditions and in different environments. However, they all have a spare, succinct beauty precisely because the projects were subject to many constraints. We may be able to discover in temporary architecture the starting point of architecture.
Herzog & de Meuron Prada Improbable Classics – Prada Temporary Store
Rem Koolhaas + Cecil Balmond Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006
OBRA Architects “ BEATFUSE!” for Warm Up – MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program
Feature 2: Architecture in Luxembourg
Luxembourg’s small size and its relatively small number of cities means there has never been an explicit national urban policy. Instead there is a cross-border cooperation between the cities of Luxembourg, Trier, Saarbrücken and Metz, which set up a trans-national Quattropole urban network to pool their strengths and resources. The national government, however, has set up several funds to help in overcoming specific urban problems, some of them directly targeted at Luxembourg City, such as the fund for the urban development of the Kirchberg Plateau. This once agricultural area has since the 50s undergone tremendous change. Urban studies by renowned architectural teams have transformed the green fields into a vivid urban network, answering the need for growth beyond the borders of the historical city, due to its selection as a European institution site. The next step in the future is to give the Kirchberg Plateau its own settled population, people who both live and work on the plateau. Although now there is an active population of 20,500 people, it has only 2,000 inhabitants. In order to balance tertiary-sector growth, a significant part of the further development of the area will be focused on the establishment of residential space.
Essay: Evolutionary Phases in the Urbanization of the Kirchberg Plateau Fonds Kirchberg + Hera Van Sande
Christian de Portzamparc Luxembourg Philharmonic Hall
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM)
SchemelWirtz Architects / Jourdan & Müller Conference Center in Luxembourg-Kirchberg
RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky Architektur + Städtebau IKB International S.A.
CBA Christian Bauer & Associés Architectes National Museum of History and Art
Essay: The Development of the Kirchberg District Ina Nottrot
Luxembourg City Architecture Guide
Ingenhoven Architects European Investment Bank
Dominique Perrault Court of Justice of the European Communities
Bolles + Wilson Luxembourg National Library
Rob Krier · Christoph Kohl · Architekten Cité Judiciaire
Interview: Michèle Pranchère-Tomassini / Luxembourg Ambassador to Japan
Series: Evolving Workplaces – Part 3 Distributed Workplaces: The Dispersal of the Office Through Information Communication Technology Akihiro Kishimoto
Book Review: KM3: Excurisions on Capacities by MVRDV
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