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International High Profile Buildings

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Hypo-Alpe-Adria Centre, Klagenfurt Austria Morphosis Architects, Santa Monica Bryggan secondary school, Vellinge Sweden bm Arkitekter AB, Malmö InnovationsCampus, Wolfsburg Germany O. M. Architekten, Braunschweig Caltrans district 7 headquarters, Los Angeles USA Morphosis Architects, Santa Monica Søvejhuse, Ishøj Denmark WITRAZ arkitekter, Copenhagen Housing development, Zurich Switzerland Architektick, Zurich Fire station, Allerød Denmark Tegnestuen Vandkunsten ApS, Copenhagen Multiplex cinema Medusa, Turin Italy Studio Granma and Promo. ge. co, Torino Shopping centre Mercator, Nova Gorica...

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EVOLUTION – THE FASCINATION OF CONTINUOUS INNOVATION In the nineteenth century, Darwin set up the theory that in the The second dimension: a geographical evolution. Recent build- hard struggle for life only the best survive thanks to permanent ings were not only realised in German speaking countries adaptation to the evolving living conditions. In modern economy, but also throughout the European Community and also overseas. the rules are quite similar, and leading companies are usually The variety in ideas and stylistic expressions of creative build- manufacturers or providers who...

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The Hypo Alpe-Adria Centre was built after successful participation in a competition by the American architects’ firm of Morphosis. It comprises offices, shops, a kindergarten, parking facilities and premises for the Hypo AlpeAdria bank: a formally very expressive complex with various structural emphases and an open interior area. Hypo Alpe-Adria Centre Klagenfurt, Austria EXTERIOR VIEW WITH SHEET STEEL, INNER COURTYARD WITH FIBRE CEMENT

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First floor Klagenfurt is Austria’s southern-most provincial capital and the historical, economic and cultural centre of Carinthia. It is also rapidly becoming an important centre of the entire Alpine-Adriatic area. Not far away, across the Slovenian border towards the south, lies Ljubljana, and further east and still in Austria, Graz, known chiefly in architectural circles through the Graz School. This caused an international sensation for the first time in the 1980s when personalities such as Günther Domenig, Klaus Kada, Michael Szyszkowitz und Karla Kowalski called attention to...

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ture in Venice entitled “Metamorph”, which explored the formal changes in contemporary architecture last autumn. The architects’ firm of Morphosis, which originated in Location Client Völkermarkter Strasse /Alpe-Adria-Platz, Klagenfurt, Austria Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank, Klagenfurt Morphosis Architects; Thom Mayne, Santa Monica the United States and is based in Santa Monica, also rep- resents a southern region of a country where, also approx- imately twenty years ago, experiments were being carried Brian Parish, Davi Plotkin, David Rindlaub, Robyn Sambo, Stephen out in the realm of...

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THE FIBRE CEMENT PANELS ARE USED PRIMARILY IN THE INNER, SEMI-OPEN AREAS OF THE BUILDING COMPLEX. layers situated one behind the other at varying heights, whereby selected parts of the building have been raised above the ground on stilts. Thom Mayne, the architect in chief and founder of Morphosis, developed – or cut – the project as it were pictorially out of the furrowed field that served as building ground on the eastern periphery of Klagenfurt. The plot takes the form of an irregular triangle, the sides of which are in each case nearly 140 by 160 by 170 m long. Most of the building...

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InnovationsCampus Wolfsburg, Germany VARIABILITY AND IMAGINATION The different façade materials of the six cubic volumes and a large share of glass characterise the InnovationsCampus in Wolfsburg. The architecture of the ensemble, designed by O. M. Architects, reflects the creative atmosphere that prevails in the foundation and innovation centre.

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In places where newly founded firms have their headquar- the group without any hint of subordination. The visual ters and the New and the Old Economy enter into a com- and haptic qualities of the curtain-walled, rear-ventilated munity, a great deal of creative potential prevails. In 1997, façades could hardly be more dissimilar. Timber, wicker- the Foundation and Innovation Centre was created with work, titanium zinc, pre-patinated copper, prefabricated the aim of boosting the economic dynamics of the Wolfs- clay elements and colourful fibre cement panels reflect to- burg region. Situated...

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THE ARCHITECTS DERIVED THEIR INSPIRATION FOR THEIR USE OF COLOURED FIDRE CEMENT PANELS FROM THE WORK OF PAUL KLEE. North elevation West elevation Location Heinrich-Nordlioff-Strasse, Wolfsburg, Germany Client Wolfsburg AG, Wolfsburg Architects O. M. Architekten, Braunschweig; Rainer Ottinger, Thomas Mohlendick Collaborators Julia Perschmann, Bernd Paliga Site manager Dohle + Lohre Architekten, Braunschweig Load bearing construction bow-Ingenieure, Braunschweig Facade material Swisspearl® in 12 different customized colours

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The two-storey terrace houses are joined into rows by single-storey intermediate buildings. The repetition of the simple silhouettes and the clear alternation between the materials endow the development with visual power. The traditional building method corresponds with the formal expression: concrete foundation and structural core, steel load bearing structure and fibre cement exterior cladding. Søvejhuse Ishøj, Denmark CLARITY THROUGH SIMPLICITY AND REPETITION

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The location of the 21 terrace houses is characterised on ment its characteristic, consistent disposition. The lining the one hand by its closeness to the city of Copenhagen, up of identical units facilitated a rational construction and on the other by the immediate proximity of natural method as well as uniform design. The construction and recreation areas and the beach – the popular Strandpark. building processes are remarkable: first of all, the floor This privileged position has resulted in the rapid growth slabs were constructed of in situ concrete. Then the pre- of the suburb of Ishøj...

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