The octagonal buildings, clad with a dark blue refractive glass curtain wall, were designed by American architect Paul Rudolph who was working at the time as a design consultant for Wong & Ouyang. The buildings’ main construction contractor was Hip Hing Construction.
RIAS Scottish Awards – shortlist from a selection of over 50 buildings across Scotland, 14 of which were visited – RIAS Scottish Architecture Award: Scottish building prizes by Royal Institute of Architects in Scotland.
The Hub Conference, Edinburgh – Big Debate, The Future of Scotland’s Architecture – RIAS Hub Conference: Conservation v Evolution, Scottish architecture convention
Hudson Featherstone – featured buildings by the practice include Drop House, Hertfordshire, southeast England and Baggy House, Croyde Bay, north Devon, southwest England
John Outram Associates: Postmodern architect, UK: Egyptian House, Oxfordshire & Judge Institute, Cambridge: London building, Postmodern English architecture
The creative Bash (30.10.01) at the Borough Hotel was most intriguing: various artists outdoing each other in claiming pecunity with various funders in observance! The Lighthouse had organised the second Creative Entrepreneurs Club.
Central Plaza Hong Kong. In 1992 this skyscraper became the tallest building in Hong Kong: the previous tower was I M Pei’s Bank of China (completed 1990).
The Boat House is a contemporary interpretation of those wonderful boat houses usually situated on a man-made lake in a designed landscape not dissimilar to the situation created here in Lower Mill Estate.
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This talk by Jens Kvorning really explained both past and present Copenhagen planning and architecture issues. Jens’ explanation of the newer Danish buildings, such as Henning Larsen’s warehouse-type finger blocks, was made poignant and understandable by the earlier descriptions of the creation of Copenhagen city and harbour.
John Maxwell Hutchinson (1948) is an English architect, broadcaster, and Anglican deacon. He is a former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, eastern England.
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Copenhagen urban renewal talk by Niels Andersen of Danish Urban Regeneration Society – resident’s participation & new housing in Denmark