CR February 2010
Featured Stories
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International Project
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Personality
The Arch
The building consists of connected twin towers. The Arch was chosen as one of the best new skyscrapers receiving 15 voting points.
The Arch is a 65-floor 231 meter (758 foot) tall skyscraper located in Hong Kong.
This huge building is composed of two towers joined at the center by a "club house”. The entire complex, composed almost entirely of residential units, was designed by architectural firm Sun Hung Kai Properties limited and developed by Ove Arup partners
Henderson waves bridge
Henderson Waves Bridge is a 274-metre (900 ft) pedestrian bridge. At 36 meters (120 ft) above Henderson Road, it is the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore and also the largest manmade structure of its kind in Asia.
Floor Screeds Crack as Contractors Cut Corner
The dropping or lowering of standards in the construction industry has been under the media spotlight for the past five years or more; and for good reason. Incidents of failure, some of them major and incurring injury and loss of life, have led to huge wastage in human and material resources. It is a dangerous development which has set alarm bells ringing among reputable manufacturers and construction-related institutions, and if ignored, will haunt South Africans for generations
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas born 17 November 1944 is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas also studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
