ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 421
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Mon Apr 6 09:32:34 PDT 2009
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by Terri Peters
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The Copenhagen Zoo's new Elephant House by Foster +
Partners emerges gently from the surrounding park
grounds, its two leaf-patterned glass domes topping
walls of pink-hued concrete. At once playful and
serious, transparent and solid, this modern menagerie
provides both high-quality living conditions for the
animals inside and an exciting and interactive visitor
experience.
As they splash in the water and walk around their sandy
indoor quarters, the Asian elephants seem to be enjoying
their DKK 280 million (about $50 million) new home. That
may seem like a lot of money to spend on an animal
enclosure, but then, this is no ordinary building -
it is the showpiece of Denmark's foremost
tourist and cultural institution. The Copenhagen Zoo,
located in the historic Fredriksberg Gardens, attracts
1.2 million visitors each year.
The brief for the new facility, which supercedes a much
smaller brick structure built in 1914, was driven by the
goal of creating quality and design benchmarks for
elephant facilities, informed by behavioral research.
After the zoo's managing director, Lars Lunding
Andersen, visited the British Museum's glass-roofed
Great Court by Foster + Partners in 2001, the zoo
invited the firm to design the new elephant house as a
similarly light-filled space, in stark contrast to the
dark, bunkerlike buildings that have so often been built
for elephants.
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Self-Mass Damper at Tokyo Swatch
by Ryota Kidokoro
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The Swatch Group's new flagship structure in Tokyo, the
Nicolas G. Hayek Center, featured in ArchitectureWeek
No. 416, is built with an array of innovative elements,
ranging from elevating showrooms and multistory
retractable glass exterior walls to moving floors for
reducing seismic forces induced in the building.
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People and Places
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Minnesota - HGA in The Woodlands, Texas - NBBJ in Columbus,
Ohio - The Freelon Group and HOK in Atlanta, Georgia -
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