ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 394
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Aug 29 09:32:58 PDT 2008
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BEIJING BIRD'S NEST - ENGINEERING
by Brian Libby
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To get the engineering perspective on Beijing National
Stadium, Brian Libby recently spoke with Steve Burrows,
a principal at Arup, the London-based international
engineering firm behind the project. Arup has also
engineered other landmark projects in Beijing, such as
the National Aquatics Center ("Water Cube"), the
airport's Terminal 3, and CCTV Headquarters. Based in
San Francisco, Burrows has been with the company since
1982.
Brian Libby for ArchitectureWeek: How did the National
Stadium design process begin for you?
Steve Burrows: My involvement started with the blank
sheet of paper in Herzog & de Meuron's office in
Basel, with Ai Weiwei and the architects and two or
three of us from Arup. Most of our effort in the
competition phase was in the United Kingdom and
Switzerland. After it was won, our Beijing office set up
an expert panel to review the design, because it doesn't
comply with any Chinese building code.
The scale was something we really had to keep pinching
ourselves about. It's the height of the Eiffel Tower.
We actually built a third-scale foamboard mockup of it
just so we could get a sense of the scale we were
working on. When you're talking that span, it's hard to
imagine. Nobody's ever done that before.
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AIA Small Projects 2008
by Brian Libby
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Housing for art lovers, homeless people, flood-zone
dwellers, and hobbits. Chandeliers, bus stops, and a
synagogue entrance. An expandable bathroom.
These are not massive landmarks, but rather the AIA's
annual exemplars of design executed with limited
financial and programmatic means: the American Institute
of Architects 2008 Small Project Awards recipients.
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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Kohn Pedersen Fox in Shanghai, China - RTKL in Chicago,
Illinois - Holzman Moss Architecture with STV in West
Point, New York - Leo A Daly in Burbank, California -
Pickard Chilton in Chicago, Illinois...
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