AR AUGUST 2001
GRAND GESTURES


VIEW
16 Great Library of Alexandria; new links in France’s TGV system; view from Cairo

DESIGN REVIEW
26 Cabinet of curiosities for the twenty-first century
JOHNSON CHOU DESIGN

COMMENT
30 The follies of marchitecture

THEME
32 Federal chancellery, Berlin, Germany
AXEL SCHULTES ARCHITEKTEN; FRANK SCHULTES WITT
40 Eden Project, Cornwall, England
NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW & PARTNERS
48 Bank offices and flats, Berlin, Germany
GEHRY PARTNERS
55 Conference centre and concert hall, Rouen, France
BERNARD TSCHUMI
60 Student study centre, Graz, Austria
SZYSZKOWITZ-KOWALSKI
65 Museum, Melbourne, Australia
DENTON CORKER MARSHALL
70 Proposals for a congress hall in Cordóba, Spain
VARIOUS ARCHITECTS

MATERIALITY
74 Museum, Shikoku, Japan
NAITO ARCHITECT AND ASSOCIATES

POLEMIC
78 Hero today, gone tomorrow: the limits of architectural exaltation
EDWARD ROBBINS

INTERIOR DESIGN
80 Shop, Milan, Italy
SH ARCHITECTS

PRODUCT REVIEW
83 Art consultation service

HOUSE
84 House, Aegina, Greece
GEORGE MAKRIS AND YOTA KALAVRYTINOU

BOOKS
88 Taking shape; the seduction of place; Serge Chermayeff; garden theory; prison architecture

DELIGHT
91 George Washington Bridge lighting, New York, USA
DOMINGO GONZALEZ ASSOCIATES

GLASS
93 Glass at the cutting edge
99 Courthouse, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
RICHARD MEIER & PARTNERS
101 Hotel, Mexico City, Mexico
TEN ARQUITECTOS
103 Offices and dance studio, Santa Monica, USA
PUGH + SCARPA
105 Technical college for glass, Rheinbach, Germany
JÖRG HIEBER, JÜRGEN MARQUARDT
107 Transparent products review

Cover
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AXEL SCHULTES ARCHITEKTEN; FRANK SCHULTES WITT Federal chancellery, Berlin, Germany
Photograph by Stefan Müller