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...French Architect Jacques Ferrier is a big fan of concrete. He has used it extensively in his latest work, including his design of the French pavilion for the 2010 World's Fair in Shanghai, and believes it has strong aesthetic appeal. "It has a sensuality," he enthuses. "It evokes images of white minerality." Most of all, Ferrier praises concrete for its environmental friendliness. One of his concept projects is Hypergreen, a showcase tower with a curved, concrete lattice façade, designed to generate enough energy to meet most of its own needs...
...strong as regular concrete. It costs several times as much as standard concrete, yet industry experts say price comparisons are misleading because the high-tech versions have properties that make them more comparable to materials such as stainless steel and aluminum, which can be even pricier. Those attributes give architects, engineers and builders far greater flexibility to use concrete's long-lasting thermal and acoustic properties in everything from pedestrian bridges to bus stations. That in turn contributes to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete that American architect Richard Meier used...
...organic compounds--and is being heavily marketed as "a new era in sustainability and performance." At the R&D center of French cement giant Lafarge, director Pascal Casanova waxes lyrical about Ductal, a superresilient concrete the center developed that he calls the Formula One of concrete. It's what architect Ferrier used in his 807-ft. (246 m) Hypergreen tower, a project that wouldn't have been possible with regular concrete...
...architect's architect, Jorn Utzon, who died Nov. 29 at 90, was immensely creative in his understanding of space. He was also a problem solver, concerned with human scale, structure and function. His life, his legacy and the story of the Sydney Opera House are so intertwined that it is almost impossible to separate them from one another. His astonishing 1957 design was pure poetry. It was a landmark then and remains...
Meier, a world-renowned architect, designed the Getty Center in Los Angeles