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March 2006

 

 

News

27 Super Bowl spurs demolitions in Detroit
28 Gulf rebuilding update

Departments

17 Editorial: Keep the Pressure On
19 Letters*
53 Archrecord2*
57 Correspondent’s File: Syria by Seif El Rashidi
63 Critique: Criticism Today by Nancy Levinson
69 Snapshot: BOH Tea Centre by Beth Broome
225 Dates & Events*
256 Lost to Katrina: St. Peter’s by the Sea by James S. Russell, AIA*

Features

76 Keeping the Spirit Alive by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
Four years after Mockbee’s death, Rural Studio lives on.

Projects

87 Way Out There by Robert Ivy, FAIA*
88 Magma Arts and Congress Center, Spain by David Cohn*
Artengo Menis Pastrana Arquitectos
Massive, concrete sculptural forms create a distinctive presence.
98 The Red Location Museum, South Africa by Lisa Findley*
Noero Wolff Architects
The struggle against apartheid is commemorated with design.
106 New Chancellery Building and Business School, Australia
by Christopher Moore*
fjmt
A thorny crown caps one of the world’s most remote cities.
112 Svalbard Research Centre, Norway by Peter MacKeith*
Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects
An otherworldly building hunkers down in its arctic setting.
120 Parliament Library, India by Sam Lubell*
Raj Rewal Associates
Blessed with the richness of history and complexity of modernity.

Building Types Study 855

131 Introduction: Offices by James S. Russell, AIA
132 Hyatt Center, Illinois by Blair Kamin*
Pei Cobb Freed
138 Bloomberg Headquarters, New York City by Suzanne Stephens*
Studios Architecture
144 Endesa Headquarters, Spain by David Cohn*
Kohn Pedersen Fox
150 E.J. DeSeta Building, Delaware by David Gissen*
Kling
154 Highlight Munich Business Towers, Germany by Tracy Metz*
Murphy/Jahn
For additional office projects, go to Building Types
Study at www.archrecord.com.

Architectural Technology

163 Can a New Kind of Heat Pump Change the World?
by Charles Linn, FAIA*
It has arrived: A heat pump that works at sub-zero temperatures.
171 Tech Products by James Murdock*

Interiors

187 Introduction: Small Spaces by William Weathersby, Jr.
188 Flex Physical Therapy and Fitness by William Weathersby, Jr.
Pierluigi Serraino, Assoc. AIA
195 Lucini Italia by John Peter Radulski
Slack Alvarez Associates
198 Xing by William Weathersby, Jr.
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
203 Interior Products by Rita Catinella Orrell

Products

211 Walls & Ceilings by Rita Catinella Orrell
215 Product Briefs
216 Cersaie Tile Show Review by Jane F. Kolleeny
221 Product Literature
236 AIA/CES Self-Report Form*
240 Reader Service*

 


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