Flanked by two bands of services, the central inner bay connects the city to the riverbank, and appears as a large sinuous volume characterized by the metallic materiality of cross-seam zinc panels.
On the northern edge of the River Clyde, the SSE Hydro joins the Clyde Auditorium, the iconic concert hall also built by Foster + Partners in 1997 and known locally as ‘the armadillo’ for its recognisable shape. The SSE Hydro – Scotland’s largest pur
Mackintosh is to Glasgow as Gaudí is to Barcelona: no architecture guide is complete without mention of the most admirable example of Arts & Crafts, the Glasgow School of Art, nor without naming it Scotland’s most important modern construction. T
Sumándose al auditorio de Norman Foster con el que comenzó la regeneración de la zona industrial de Glasgow en torno al río Clyde, acaba de inaugurarse el Museo del Transporte diseñado por Zaha Hadid, un edificio con forma de túnel zigzagueante que c
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) tenía sólo 28 años cuando ganó el concurso para diseñar la Glasgow School of Arts, su primer encargo, que construiría en dos fases entre entre 1897 y 1909, y que pasaría a ser su obra más importante. Cien años de
Stirling’s projects often demand continuous and vigilant attention: they must be interpreted in the framework of the complex conceptual game he sought to propose, based on a radical revision of modem language and on a comparison with forms of express
From Brutalism to Neo-Rationalism, and passing through High-Tech, Contextualism and Postmodernism, James Stirling’s influence on recent architectural history is an indisputable fact. Peter Buchanan points out these influences to us in a run-through o
James Stirling belonged to a generation whose mission it was to consolidate the accomplishments of the architectural avant-garde that had emerged in the Twenties, but at the same time to recover the initiative that the speculative boom of the Sixties
