ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 300

Wed Aug 23 22:50:16 PDT 2006

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NOUVEL'S TORRE AGBAR
    by Katharine Logan
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	The Torre Agbar, a new tall building from Ateliers Jean
	Nouvel, in collaboration with b720 Arquitectura,
	Garcia-Ventosa Arquitectura, and Leopoldo Rodes
	Arquitecto, thrusts into Barcelona's skyline from the
	Placa de las Glories, a gritty district that
	Barcelona's planners have designated "the next big
	thing," a new center of commercial activity.

	The Torre Agbar, writes Nouvel, "is not a tower. It is
	not a skyscraper in the American sense of the
	expression: it is a unique growth in the middle of this
	rather calm city."

	What makes it unique are its scintillating surface and
	radical structure. "The surface of this construction
	evokes the water," Nouvel says, "smooth and continuous,
	but also vibrating and transparent because it manifests
	itself in colored depths - uncertain, luminous, and
	nuanced." The building houses the new headquarters of
	Aguas de Barcelona (Agbar), the municipal water company.

	The building's enclosure system consists of
	multicolored aluminum "pixels" - seemingly innumerable
	- shimmering behind a veil of fritted glass louvers.
	Color flares over the surface: oranges, pinks, and reds
	rise hot from the base, cooling through blue into
	white, and finally fading into clear glazing over the
	tip. Rogue splotches complete a composition of shifting
	intensity, luminosity, and depth.
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Coordination Quality
    by Dave Crumrine, Lowell Dykstra, Jeremy Oliver, and Dave Los
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	When firms take the time early in the design process to
	improve construction coordination - for instance
	between mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP)
	subcontractors working in constricted areas - they can
	reap tangible benefits. This article offers a
	design/build-oriented perspective. - Editor
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GEN's Torri Superiore
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	Perched like a fortress in the foothills of the Liguria
	maritime alps, the tiny Italian hamlet of Torri
	Superiore may seem an unlikely flagship in the search
	for sustainable solutions in architecture, landscape,
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	find workable solutions to what many see as a looming
	global energy famine.
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