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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:30:23 +0530
Wonders of the World: The Buildings of 2006
The major trend of the year, seen in everything from houses to
skyscrapers: Environmentally benign design
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/dec2006/id20061218_890213.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_innovation+and+design+lead
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2006 in review: architecture
Jonathan Glancey
Thursday December 14, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
The year's high point was seeing, for the first time, Grimsby Dock
Tower, a 309ft high Victorian water tank fashioned in the guise of
Sienna's medieval Palazzo Pubblico. Designed by JW Wild, one of the most
daring of all British architects, and opened by Queen Victoria in 1867,
here is a building that has it all, even in today's terms: towering
height, fashionable "iconic" status (in a year in which anything from a
new museum in Denver by Daniel Libeskind to a pair of modish socks was
labelled "iconic"), knowing references to history, thrilling engineering
and sheer chutzpah.
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/2006/story/0,,1974768,00.html