May 2007
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MIPIM : a booming international real estate market

With 83 countries represented, a tangible increase in the number of participants and an extended exhibition space, this proved to be a record-breaking year for the international market for real estate professionals in Cannes! The major markets represented at the MIPIM included the Middle East and Russia. Dubai further reinforced its presence and pulled out all the stops. More extravagant than ever, the projects seem to have no limits. Take the Pentominium for example, the highest residential building in the world (515 metres and 160 floors) or the Burj Dubaï, currently under construction (700 metres and over 100 floors), which is set to become the highest tower in the world. But other countries are following hot on its heels, such as Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. For its part, the Russian Federation ranks fourth place in the top 10 participating companies, just behind the three European countries that are traditionally the leaders in the sector (Great Britain, France and Germany), who are also building further on their 2006 performances. Moscow has plans to build the Federation Tower which, at 448 metres, aims to be the highest building in Europe, and St Petersburg made the most of the MIPIM to present the model of its 300 m high tower. As for Poland, Warsaw will soon have a new landmark in the form of the Zlota 44 (192 metres high), the first project by Daniel Libeskind in his native country. In France, it is La Defense district that is booming with the construction of the Granite Tower designed by Christian de Portzamparc and the Phare Tower by the architect Thomas Mayne. Towers seem to be sprouting from the ground all over the place. "Building upwards makes ecological sense", claimed Daniel Libeskind, during his conference, thus cutting short any criticism by skyscraper opponents.
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Christoph Ingenhoven, Düsseldorf

 A winner of numerous international  prizes, Christoph Ingenhoven was  recently awarded the prestigious  Holcim Gold Award 2006 for his  project for Stuttgart's new central  station. Linking two, previously  separated, districts of the city, this  project sets out to give Stuttgart a new emblematic urban framework. The completely underground station and rail tracks make it possible to free up land for building. Ecology and the sophisticated use of technology are at the heart of a truly innovative concept. Indeed, the materials, structures and products have all been chosen with sustainable architecture in mind.

Since 1985, when he started out as an architect at the age of 25, Christoph Ingenhoven has found it only natural to combine his architecture with sustainable development. "That was and remains our architectural approach: sophisticated, transparent and human buildings that are technically interesting and energy efficient". The architect sets great store by ecological concepts and is an expert in the use of glass. The list of projects is long, in Germany, in Europe and overseas, covering governmental and office buildings, company headquarters, high-rises, department stores, industrial buildings, refurbishment, infrastructure and transportation projects, such as airports and railway stations, urban planning and masterplanning.

Ingenhoven Architekten is today a company of around sixty employees working together on projects based on a global approach to ecology, technical progress and the well-being of users. "On our small blue planet with its limited resources, there can be no other response. We are continuing to search, day after day, for tangible solutions that make life easier and healthier". As for the image of his architecture, Christoph Ingenhoven claims that it is a superficial perception. "Architecture is based on reason and content. That is what determines the form. Food for thought."

Legends of the pictures

1. Christoph Ingenhoven
2. RWE AG Headquarters - Essen (1994-1997)
With a double glass skin, this 127 metre high building is totally transparent. For nine out of the twelve months of the year it can do without any artificial air conditioning or heating.
3. Burda Media Park - Offenburg (1999-2001)
The head office of this large press group is integrated into the landscape. The six branches separate the different editorial departments, designed in the form of flexible office spaces for a 600-strong workforce.
4. European Investment Bank - Luxembourg (2005-work in progress)
Situated on the Kirchberg plateau in Luxembourg , this long building is also characterised by its total transparency. The glass envelope is crowned by a slightly incurved glass roof, under which you can make out the W shape of the plan.
5. Production Building Gira - Radevormwald (2000-2003)
A new interpretation of the industrial building, the Gira plant (electronic products) is made up of two parts linked by glass stairwells. The load-bearing system is 20 metres in length so as to give rise to large offices without any pillars on the first floor.
6. Stuttgart station (2008-work in progress)
Reinforcing the relationship of the building with its immediate environment, the minimalist structure in concrete will be covered with earth and vegetation. Natural ventilation is achieved.
7. Lufthansa Aviation Center - Frankfort/Main (2003-2006)
An exemplary project combining « High Tech » and « Low Energy », this administrative building offers working spaces bathed in light for 1800 people. Spanned by a glass roof, the green zones allow the building to breathe while protecting it from the heat, the cold and noise.



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RWE AG Headquarters

Burda Media Park

European Investment Bank

Production Building Gira

Stuttgart station


Lufthansa Aviation Center


 


 Project of the Month

Museums of the 21st century

After Düsseldorf, Rome and Linz, it is now Lyon's turn (Museum of the Confluences), to welcome up until the 1 st of July a major exhibition dedicated to museum architecture. What are the demands made on the museums of the 21 st century? According to which criteria should they be built? What will be the architectural approach? We have selected four projects among the 27 world projects that have come up with a response to the growing demand of cultural sites. These buildings, which stand out in view of the very particular formal languages of their designers, are seen as the new symbols of cultural identification.

1. MAXXI, Rome (2003-2008)
Zaha Hadid Architects  

Under construction, the national museum of the arts of the 21st century is a spectacular complex that is designed like a sculpture. The appearance of the building plays with the context, thus sharing an urban dimension.


2. Lyon Confluences (2006-2009)
Coop Himmelb(l)au

Anchored at the confluent of the Saone and of the Rhone Rivers, this « new generation » museum wants to combine two architectural units, according to a concept triggered by the construction site. One of the elements is a "cloud", a body in levitation, placed on a pedestal. Due to its very nature, its metallic skin will reflect the colours of the sky and of the city. A strong signal, turned towards the city, the "crystal" part is designed like an urban forum that will mark the public point of entry.

© Coop Himmelb(l)au & Armin Hess


3. Museum of the Hellenic world in Athens(2009-2011)
Anamorphosis Architects

The concept developed here is based on one question: what to do when the original lines and objects are missing? History is conveyed through a series of spatial experiences. The ribbons that draw the general form of the monument create three symbolic elements, each linked to a historical period. Each element is given its own specific lighting and deploys a range of reference materials.

© Anamorphosis architects


4. Stonehenge Visitor Centre and Interpretive Museum - Wiltshire, Great-Britain (2005-2007)
Denton Corker Marshall.

Situated around three kilometres from the megaliths of Stonehenge, this single storey building is designed as an abstract form nestling in the landscape. Like geological strata, the nine large steel sections that make up the building give an impression of force. Thanks to the plant covered roof, the architecture becomes a pure landscaped form that seeks above all to make the architecture disappear.

© Denton Corker Marshall Pty Ltd







 Product of the Month

Armstrong Bioguard : Ceiling products specifically designed for healthcare facilities

While performances and aesthetic considerations usually determine the choice of a ceiling system, in the health sector, other criteria are given priority. To improve comfort, a lot of effort is made at architectural level to make establishments more welcoming. Studies show that a favourable acoustic environment can accelerate the healing of patients and allow hospital staff to work in better conditions. Suspended ceiling systems must therefore meet high performance levels in this field. A ceiling tile must not favour the development of micro-organisms that could affix themselves to its surface, hence an anti microbial performance tile is essential. Armstrong proposes an array of ceiling tiles solutions to meet varying hygiene constraints and performance demands. For zones with average and severe risks of infection, Bioguard Plain or Bioguard Acoustic tiles are recommended. The special Bioguard paint coating contains elements that effectively fight against pathogen bacteria and can be cleaned and disinfected with products usually used in healthcare institutions.

It is rare for a suspended ceiling system to be necessary in a zone with a very high risk of infection. But if access to the plenum is critical Armstrong suggests the Clip-in Plain metal Orcal Bioguard tile with silicone joints, adapted for use in pharmaceutical and hospital cleanrooms. Orcal Bioguard achieves level ISO 3 in the ISO 14644-1 test and largely meets all the tests of the NF S 90-351 standard.

 

 




 Agenda

- GERMANY -

  • Vogt Landscape Architects
    (24/03 - 20/05/2007) - Berlin
    AedesLand

    With an exhibition on Swiss landscape architects Vogt, AedesLand opens the first worldwide forum for landscape architecture and urban space in the former rooms of the Galerie Aedes at Savignyplatz in Berlin. The focus of the exhibition lies on the perception of nature. Its examination and analysis is a requirement for the daily work of a landscape architect.
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  • Auf.einander.bauen in Berlin: Baugruppen, Projekte, Potentiale
    (30/03 - 25/05/2007) - Berlin
    Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
    Exhibition of new urban building projects commisioned by collectives of private clients. The exhibition explores the new housing typology that is emerging from a trend in German's building scene. It puts the focus especially on Berlin and introduces for the first time the tendencies of "BAUGRUPPEN" housing typology.
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  • The Destruction of Gemütlichkeit?
    (> 28/05/2007) - Weil/Rhein
    Vitra Design Museum
    From Art Nouveau to Droog design, from the stainless-steel-and-glass ambience of New Objectivity to 1980s' German punk, from Scandinavian-style interiors to the domestic landscapes of Pop Art: "The Destruction of Gemütlichkeit?" portrays the evolution of living concepts in the twentieth century with a survey of 16 major exhibitions from 1901 to the present.
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  • Cross-Border / Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien
    (> 17/06/2007) - Stuttgart
    Kunstmuseum
    Whether it is a street barrier or a club membership card, an academic title or waiting for your number to be called at the employment office - we are surrounded by visible and invisible boundaries. The exhibition deals with this extremely complex subject. The resulting photography and video art show in Stuttgart examines about 200 works by internationally renowned artists such as David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Gelatin, Louise Lawler, Thomas Ruff, The Atlas Group, and Anna and Bernhard Blume, focusing on the subject of "crossing borders".
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  • Horizon of Public Housing
    (04/05 - 21/06/2007) - Berlin
    Aedes Am Pfefferberg,
    E.M.V.S - public housing enterprise, Madrid - has developed an impulse for social housing in the last 25 years. During this period, the policy of the E.M.V.S has generated one of the most significant transformations in the way of living in public housing, complying to the new socioeconomic requirements that society demands and offers habitations of exceptional quality.
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  • Gewahrsam, Räume der Überwachung
    (04/05 - 21/06/2007) - Francfort/Main
    Altes Polizeigefängnis
    The former police custody building in Klapperfeldstrasse has been empty for some years now and is waiting to be demolished. In addition to the rich history of the edifice the exhibition will showcase a historic tableau of prison typologies that follow different concepts for holding people in custody, and their surveillance. In addition to surveillance quarters the exhibition will also be taking a look at surveillance techniques.
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  • Laboratorium Lack
    (28/04 - 22/07/2007) - Stuttgart
    Kunstmuseum
    Willi Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer and the architect Franz Krause worked together from 1937 to 1944.
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  • 100 Jahre Deutscher Werkbund
    (19/04 - 26/08/2007) - Munich
    Pinakothek der Moderne
    The German Werkbund was founded in Munich in 1907 with the aim of »refining arts and crafts in collaboration with art institutions, industry and craftsmen's trade organisations and creating for all aspects of modern living high-quality products that were to be distributed through education and propaganda«.
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  • The Eternal Now: Deutscher Werkbund
    (5/05/2007 - 16h) - Munich
    Pinakothek der Moderne
    Lecture: In the end of the 19th century, the Deutscher Werkbund and its design stood for purposeful function and efficient production. Its »good form« was a symbol of individual and timeless values in times of industrialisation and mass society. On the occasion of its 100th jubilee the Deutscher Werkbund is a topic of the serial The Eternal Now.
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  • Auf.einander.bauen in Berlin: Baugruppen, Projekte, Potentiale
    (5/05/2007 - 16h - Taut Saal) - Berlin
    Deutsche Architektur Zentrum.
    Symposium
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  • STONE+TEC
    (6 - 9/06/2007) - Nuremberg
    International Trade Fair Natural Stone and Stoneprocessing Technology
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  • TECHTEXTIL
    (12 - 14/06/2007) - Francfort/Main
    International trade fair for technical textiles
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  • THE DESIGN ANNUAL
    (14 - 17/06/2007) - Francfort/Main
    Focus on kindling a social discourse on design
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  • COLLECTIONE
    (17 - 20/06/2007) - Francfort/Main
    The summertime consumer goods fair for a large-scale retailer or distributor
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  • MUTEC
    (20 - 22/06/2007) - Munich
    International Trade Fair for Museums, Collections, Restorations and Cultural Projects
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- AUSTRIA -

  • Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
    (> 28/05/2007) - Vienne
    Architekturzentrum Wien - Old Hall

    Bernard Rudofsky was neither an architect nor a theorist in the usual sense. At the start of his career he completed a number of houses in Italy and Brazil, where he employed the formal language of the Modernists even though his writings appear to indicate he rejected their teachings. This exhibition, the first on Bernard Rudofsky in the world, has not been conceived as a classical retrospective. The aim is to make the cosmopolitan Rudofsky's complex architectural concept and concept of how to live accessible to a broad public, and to address his relevance for today.
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  • Yves Klein. Die blaue Revolution
    (> 3/06/2007) - Vienna
    Museum Moderner Kunst

    This renowned artist is famous for his IKB blue (International Klein Blue) and his monochrome works, but his work has yet to be discovered: Performances featuring conceptual art, architectural projects, sound works, ballet choreography, film sets, major written works…
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- BELGIUM -

  • Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) / Walter Niedermayr
    (> 6/05/2007) - Anvers
    De Singel
    SANAA is one of the world's most notable architectural firms based in Tokyo. Their latest buildings, which include the 21st-Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (Japan, 2004) and the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen (Germany, 2006), and their projects currently under construction, including the New Museum in New York (2007) and Louvre-Lens in Northern France (2009), confirm their status as leading twenty-first century architects. The photographer Walter Niedermayr has now been keeping track of their work for five years.
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  • INOUT - Ici et Maintenant
    (> 13/05/2007) - Hornu
    Grand-Hornu Images
    The exhibition is dedicated to the work of two young designers coming from the Lausanne « Ecole Cantonale d'Art » concerning urban furniture.
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  • A Vision for Brussels - Imagining the Capital of Europe
    (20/05/2007) - Bruxelles
    Palais des Beaux-Arts
    On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the European presence in Brussels, an exhibition has been organized by an international team of 16 architects working with the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. This original project wants to create new public sites, which would, for the first time, establish links between the inhabitants and the European Institutions.
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  • Kitsch, Camp or Design ?
    (27/04 - 24/06/2007) - Gand
    Design Museum
    Questions on the confusing phenomenon of kitsch and camp, about the exaggerated ornamentation of the rococo period or the design aspect of the Philippe Starck' garden gnome.
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  • « Collections/Connections »
    (6/05 - 26/08/2007) - Grand-Hornu
    This exhibition presents a range of 80 important objects related to the most renowned Belgian and International names from the Art Nouveau period up to now. The scenography signed by Winston Spriet shows these products in an environment inviting the spectator to think over the status of the "design" object.
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  • Hommage aan Charles Eames
    (17/06 - 30/09/2007) - Gand
    Design Museum

    On 17 June 2007 it will be exactly 100 years ago that Charles Eames was born in the American state of Missouri. One century later, Eames has become one of the most important designers of the 20th century. Charles Eames showed how modern design can and must be used to improve the quality of life. The Gent Design museum uses its own collections for this occasion. Also architectural projects, many short films, exhibition designs and multimedia presentations were widely approved.
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  • Eero Saarinen : Shaping the Future
    (20/05 - 7/10/2007) - Bruxelles
    CIVA

    The exhibition explores the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture.
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  • Vienne-Bruxelles
    (26/06 - 23/12/2007) - Bruxelles
    Musée d'Architecture - La Loge
    The exhibition relates the decisive influence of the Viennese Art on the young generation of architects in Brussels at the beginning of the 20th century. Especially Léon Snyers, but also other architects who were influenced by this revelation : Henry Van de Velde, Léon Sneyers, Paul Hamesse, Jean-Baptiste Dewin, Emile Van Averbeke, Renaat Braem, Louis Herman De Koninck et son épouse, Fernand Khnopff, Edouard Pelseneer, Maxime Brunfaut, Raymond Moenaert...
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- DENMARK -

  • Digital Project - Frank Gehry’s Vision
    (> 20/05/2007) - Copenhague
    Dansk Arkitektur Center

    For the first time, Frank Gehry now invites the public to delve into his architecture while sharing Digital Project - the software that enables him to realize creative visions. The exhibition provides you with an insight into Frank Gehry's digital vision through films, models, and images.
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  • Komplot - 20 years of design dialogue
    (27/04 - 20/05/2007) - Copenhague
    Danish Museum Art & Design
    Komplot Design, designers Boris Berlin and Poul Christiansen, have a large and diverse production of graphic, product and furniture design preceding them. In furniture design especially, the designers have been able to continue and renew Danish design tradition, and at the same time be on the cutting edge of the latest international developments. The 20th anniversary of the design studio is celebrated in the museum garden, Grønnegården, for which Komplot has created an exhibition tent. The exhibition will show entirely new designs from the studio.
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  • Cindy Sherman - 30 years of staged photography
    (> 20/05/2007) - Humlebæk
    Louisiana Museum
    Self-dramatization is a key concept in the American artist Cindy Sherman's production. She uses herself as model and photographs herself in changing disguises. By manipulating her own body by means of make-up, clothes and artificial body parts, she appears in different forms and figures that range from the amusing and humorous to the provocative and violent. The exhibition has been organized by the Jeu de paume, Paris, and co-produced with the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
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  • Marimekko - the story of a Nordic brand
    (> 28/05/2007) - Copenhague
    Danish Museum Art & Design

    Marimekko's colourful textiles for furniture and fashion design has since 1951 been known all over the world and contributed to the 1950s - 1960s revolution of modern printed textiles and fashion design.The exhibition presents the development of more than 50 years and shows designs from the entire period focusing on the renewed innovation of the brand.
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- SPAIN -

  • Barcelona, 1978-1997... Manolo Laguillo
    (> 6/05/2007) - Barcelone
    Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
    This exhibition, produced by MACBA, will explore a large part of the work of Manolo Laguillo (Madrid, 1953), specifically the part that concentrates on representation of Barcelona. And it will do so from the hypothesis of the close relation between his work and the construction of an image of the city through photography in the crucial decade of the eighties.
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  • Palazuelo: proceso de trabajo
    (> 10/06/2007) - Bilbao
    Musée Guggenheim
    Pablo Palazuelo (1915) is one of the key figures of Spanish art of the second half of the 20th century, although unfortunately, he has still not gained the international recognition that his work so richly deserves. This retrospective exhibition, organized by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and coproduced by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will emphasize the least-known aspects of the work of this artist, incorporating many pieces that have not been shown to the public before. With more than 300 works, Palazuelo: Working Process includes a broad selection of drawings, gouaches, paintings, and sculptures.
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  • Encuentro Internacional de Construcción y Consumo responsable de madera
    (14 - 19/05/2007) - Barcelone
    Construmat Barcelona
    International meeting between responsible producers and consumers of wood products like those certified by FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)
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  • ECOFIRA
    (30/05 - 1/06/2007) - Valence
    International Fair for Water, Soil, Air, Wastes and their Technologies and Services
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- FINLAND -
  • Rogelio Salmona
    (18/04 -10/06/2007) -     Helsinki
    Museum of Finnish Architecture
    Rogelio Salmona (born 1929) is one of the great names of South American architecture together with Luis Barragan and Oscar Niemeyer. In his youth he lived in Paris, where he also worked in the studio of Le Corbusier. The majority of his work is in Colombia. In 2003 he was awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal in Finland.
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- FRANCE -

  • IaN+/Nouvelle écologie des systèmes vivants
    (> 6/05/2007) - Orléans
    FRAC Centre
    Founded in Rome in 1997, the N+ is, on the contemporary Italian scene, a platform involved at the same time in the conception, the teaching, the publication and the exhibition of architecture, searching for a link between theory and practice. This agency presents itself as an "Office for architecture and engineering".
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  • Génération Europan
    (> 27/05/2007) - Paris
    Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot
    The main points of Europan.
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  • "Le Corbusier - Lucien Hervé, Construction/Composition"
    (> 23/06/2007) - Paris
    Fondation Le Corbusier
    Photographies by Lucien Hervé who worked with Le Corbusier between 1950 and 1965.
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  • Musées du XXIe siècle, 26 idées, projets et réalisations
    (> 1/07/2007) - Lyon
    Muséum
    Illustrated by 27 of the world's leading museum building projects, the exhibition presents the most important trends in museum architecture. The projects presented by a selection of sketches, architectural plans, photographs and models, as well as multimedia displays, highlights the diverse personalities of the star architects.
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  • Joe Colombo - Inventing the Future
    (> 19/08/2007) - Paris
    Musée des Arts Décoratifs

    The work of the Italian designer Joe Colombo, a visionary spirit of the Sixties
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  • Christian de Portzamparc. Rêver la ville.
    (> 16/09/2007) - Paris
    Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palaisde Chaillot
    Recent works, from Paris to New York, from Rio to Beyrouth.
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  • Avant-Après. Architectures au fil du temps
    (> 16/09/2007) - Paris
    Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot
    150 short movies present architectural projects and urban planning.
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- GREAT-BRITAIN -

  • Gilbert & George
    (> 7/05/2007) - Londres
    Tate Modern
    Gilbert & George have created art together since meeting at St Martin's School of Art in 1967. Their impact on the international art world was immediate, radical and subversive with the declaration that sculpture need not be confined to the production of three-dimensional objects and that their own lives could be classed as 'living sculptures'.
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  • Glasgow Greenhouse
    (> 7/05/2007) - Glasgow
    The Lighthouse Level 1 Review Gallery
    L    eading Scottish practice, Chris Stewart Architects, commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, are leading a project to create a sustainable business centre for new start and young companies in Glasgow's East-end.
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  • Thinking Inside the Box
    (> 7/05/2007) - Glasgow
    The Lighthouse Level 2 Young Designers Gallery
    Interiors in the 21st Century: New Visions, New Horizons & New Challenges
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  • Patrick Bouchain. Know-How / Savoir Faire
    (30/04 - 25/05/2007) - Londres
    Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
    Know-How / Savoir Faire will feature three projects of the French architect Patrick Bouchain: the redevelopment of the old abattoirs of Calais as a national performing arts theatre; a series of public swimming pools in the Poitou Charentes region and an iridescent, asymmetrical black tent structure for the travelling equestrian theatre "Théâtre du Centaure".
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  • The Timeless Vision : Alvar Aalto Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban
    (> 27/05/2007) - Londres
    The Barbican Gallery

    This fascinating exhibition which explores the themes linking these two influential architects who, despite spanning a generational and geographical divide, share a visionary approach to architecture.
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  • Airworld - Design and Architecture for Air Travel
    (12/04 - 27/05/2007) - Glasgow
    Tramway

    The exhibition celebrates the aesthetic of the golden age of air travel, a time when flying still retained something of the attraction of the unusual. The exhibition also presents some convincing and visionary projects of today.
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  • On the Threshold: The Changing Face of Housing
    (> 27/05/2007) - Londres
    Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture

    From the legacies of iconic schemes to experimental contemporary designs and future ideas, this exhibition looks at and under the residential skin.
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  • Ettore Sottsass. A Life in Design
    (> 10/06/2007) - Londres
    Design Museum

    Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980's design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti. To mark Ettore Sottsass' 90th birthday we are exhibiting his most iconic designs drawn from six decades of his on-going career.
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  • Luigi Colani. Translating Nature
    (> 17/06/2007) - Londres
    Design Museum
    Luigi Colani is one of the great mavericks of 20th Century design. Born in Berlin in 1928, with an art school training supplemented by studies in aerodynamics, he began his career working in the car industry. The king of customisers, Colani developed his own baroque idiom of boldly sculptured forms that spilled from cars to aircraft, and then into furniture and industrial objects. From 1982 he began to work in Japan, and his swooping sculpted forms transformed among other products, cameras for Canon, and headphones for Sony.
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  • Living in Motion - Design and architecture for Flexible Dwelling
    (1/04 - 10/06/2007) - Edinburgh
    Edinburgh City Arts Center

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  • Zaha Hadid Architecture and Design
    (29/06 - 31/10/2007) - Londres
    Design Museum

    The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in its 26 year history, Zaha Hadid has defined a radically new approach to architecture by creating buildings, such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, with multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life.
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  • ET - ICU - IWEX
    (1 - 3/05/2007) - Birmingham