CR April 2010
Featured Stories
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Cover Story
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International Project
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Guest
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Personality
Cooper River Bridge
The Cooper river Bridge, also known as the Arthur Ravenel JR. Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina USA, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The eight lane bridge has satisfied the capacity of U.S. Highway 17 since its opening to replace two obsolete cantilever truss bridges. The bridge was built as a design-build project, meaning that one contract was signed to both design and construct the bridge. This meant that construction could begin even while the design was not yet finalised.
Oslo Opera House
The Opera House in its scale, ambition and quality has raised the bar for Norwegian architecture. The project has been billed to be the biggest boost for Norwegian culture since the building of the medieval Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. The construction of this opera house is the largest single cultural-political initiative in contemporary Norway. The result is an extraordinary building in white marble with a roof surface that rises directly from beneath the fjord.
Don't Count Your Titanium Eggs before they Hatch
Housing Diversity
There is a general consensus amongst professions of the built environment that recently South Africans are largely overcoming their apathetic and culture bias thoughts about concepts of architecture, urbanisation and settlement planning. Naturally this observation stems from the fact that discourses around our rural and urban environments, as well as our housing or township settlements, are shifting from being ideologically separatist to being about equitable, socio-economically and ecologically sound environments.
Architect David Chipperfield
British Architect David Chipperfield is renowned for daring buildings set between land and sea. Often erroneously thought of as a minimalist architect, he has become one of the most conceptionally complex architects working today, thanks to the diversity and depth of his realised projects. Born in 1953 in London, Architect David Chipperfield has offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and a representative office in Shanghai.David is termed as an uncompromisingly modernist, which in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice.
