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This book reveals how the work of these architectural talents is also made possible by companies such as Permasteelisa, which offer technological solutions for constructing the most futuristic buildings. Permasteelisa produces continuous external cladding: the skin of skyscrapers, large airports, and current business centers. Drawing on its constant research into(...)
The faces of contemporary cities: Permasteelisa
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This book reveals how the work of these architectural talents is also made possible by companies such as Permasteelisa, which offer technological solutions for constructing the most futuristic buildings. Permasteelisa produces continuous external cladding: the skin of skyscrapers, large airports, and current business centers. Drawing on its constant research into technology and materials, it collaborates with large architectural firms to transform an architect’s project into a building. This was the case for the Sydney Opera House, with its futuristic sails; for the Guggenheim in Bilbao and its curved facades conceived by Frank Gehry; and for the scintillating blades of Renzo Piano’s Shard in London. The book tells the story of Permasteelisa. With the texts by international urban planning scholars and data analysis and georeferencing methodologies developed at the Transnational Architecture and Urbanism Lab (TAU-Lab) of the Politecnico di Milano, it shows how this Italian company’s know-how has allowed it to shape the faces of many contemporary cities such as New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Milan, Hong Kong, and Sydney.
Materials and Lighting
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Starchitecture draws on the extensive study of Abu Dhabi, Paris, Bilbao and New York, providing an analysis of more than twenty projects and suggesting how architecture and planning could be of higher relevance in urban development.
Starchitecture: scenes, actors and spectacles in contemporary cities
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Starchitecture draws on the extensive study of Abu Dhabi, Paris, Bilbao and New York, providing an analysis of more than twenty projects and suggesting how architecture and planning could be of higher relevance in urban development.
Contemporary Architecture