ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 311

Thu Nov 9 11:50:51 PST 2006

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BERLIN CENTRAL STATION
    by Jo Baker
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    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1108/design_1-1.html

	The new Berlin Hauptbahnhof designed by von Gerkan,
	Marg and Partners (gmp) is Europe's largest and newest
	train station o a large "cathedral" of glass and steel.
	Linking major lines from all directions, the Berlin
	Central Station has been on the boards for 11 years,
	but with typical German efficiency, was completed
	within two weeks of the 2006 World Cup games. Yet one
	could say that the station had been in the planning
	stages for nearly a century.

	The notion of a unified transportation hub for Berlin
	had first been considered in 1910. At that point,
	passengers traveling the length or width of the country
	would arrive at one of six terminal stations in the
	city and often need to transfer to another to continue
	their journey.

	An early-20th century competition to redesign Greater
	Berlin included plans for a rail link that would serve
	a pair of central stations at either end of the city,
	reducing the role of the others. But two world wars and
	the Cold War intervened, and those plans were all but
	abandoned. When Germany was divided after WWII, Berlin
	too was portioned up like a pie.

	Then in 1995, six years after the Berlin Wall fell, the
	concept was revived. Another competition selected gmp
	whose winning design was grand, modern, and ultimately
	very functional. This was meant to be a
	"super-station": intersecting all major north-south and
	east-west rail routes in the region, facilitating train
	arrivals and departures every 90 seconds, and, of
	course, doubling as a hip new retail and hospitality
	hub. 
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Rejuvenating Boomers
    by Michael J. Crosbie and Mitchell/ Giurgola Architects
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	An article in the New York Times late in 2005 reported
	on the escalating demise of brutalist buildings
	designed and constructed during the post-war years o
	the hard-edged, unforgiving, sterile, and
	often-humorless creations of modernism's aging gurus
	and, especially, their uninspired copyists.
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Chicago Landmark Awards
    by ArchitectureWeek
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	Chicago is justly proud of its architectural heritage,
	marked by the great American architects Louis Sullivan
	and Frank Lloyd Wright, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
	and, more recently, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and
	Helmut Jahn. As contemporary architects follow in these
	illustrious footsteps, modern Chicagoans work hard to
	preserve their built history.
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Postcard from Sydney
    by Elizabeth Bollinger
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	Dear ArchitectureWeek,
	I thought I was prepared to meet the Sydney Opera
	House. I was mistaken! The image of this remarkable
	structure, stamped in my own mind for years, is one of
	the most recognized in the world... the icon for
	Australia.
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