Now is a very good time to go to Egypt ; there are hardly any tourists there and they do desperately need custom. The architecture is pretty extraordinary too. Colonnaded buildings like this (above, top, sketch by Bryan) are still being built to this day in Europe but how many modern architects bother with the subtlety shown here? The square columns are not what they seem; they have an almost imperceptible curve on them, an

The Greeks later called it ‘entasis’ but this temple was built 1000 years before the Parthenon (above, bottom, sketch also by Bryan). Go and wonder.

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Project NewsSpring 2015The

HelsinkiGuggenheimCompetitionWith an entry of 1,715 submissions it was little more than a lottery, but for us it was the perfect opportunity to test the form-giving Seven

aesthetic innovations in a way not normally possible on live projects.

Using our theatre experience, we proposed making the museum as

We provided too a tension wire grid

envisage.

The Regal Cinema in Camberwell Green (see

for use by the House of Praise church. The church has a congregation of 1200

back of house facilities,

space to make it more operationally sustainable. More of this project in the next newspiece.

Opposite, page: Top: Middle: Bottom:

This page: Top: Bottom: Perspective view showing one

Egypt

We have now designed four towers for the City but this one at No. 1 Undershaft is, we think, the best.

The challenge was to get 65,000 m²

of retail in a very constrained site

Wilderness City”) will recognise that the Contiguity here has driven the design. It uses the same skeletal structural aesthetic of the adjacencies and takes the external wall climbing lift to a new conclusion – as a funicular –

57 stories.

The real challenge though was not technical but aesthetic; how to bed such an extremely large new building into its context such that it would not

enhance them.

The answer was to lean the building

symmetry - thereby adding a new

TheContiguousTower

The Leadenhall Tower239.45m AOD

No.1 Undershaft286.0m AOD

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