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The notion of sustainability, of the need for humankind to try and evolve some kind of harmony with the natural world becomes ever more imperative. Architecture has a crucial role to play in striving to attain this equilibrium, but it is clear that attitudes must change and technology evolve if the vision of a pragmatic and sustainable future is to be realized. In January, we look at how architects and engineers are evolving ways of handling space and natural forces to generate innovative forms of buildings which both conserve energy and offer a rich potential for human experience. In Germany, green sensibility is perhaps at its most evolved and is manifest in a constant flow of innovative and exemplary buildings. We look at the Stadtlagerhaus in Hamburg Hamburg, city, Germany
Hamburg (häm`b rkh), officially Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), city (1994 pop. by Jan Stormer Stormer may refer to: - The Alvis Stormer, a military armored vehicle
- The Land Rover Range Stormer, a concept car manufactured by Ford
- John A. Stormer, an American Protestant anti-communist writer
- The Stormers, a South African Rugby Union team
which brings a redundant dockside building back into use with great imagination and sensitivity. In the former East German city of Magdeburg, Sauerbruch Hutton have completed an experimental factory. Three projects in London provide a contrast in scale and approach to issues of sustainability: Ralph Erskine's Millennium Village - Millennium Village - a closed attraction at Epcot
- Millennium Communities Programme (or Millennium Villages initiative) - an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for
on the Greenwich peninsula The Greenwich Peninsula, sometimes known as the Blackwall Peninsula or Bugsby Marshes or North Greenwich (due to the location of North Greenwich tube station), in the London Borough of Greenwich, is bounded on its northern perimeter by the River Thames. suggests an intriguing model for urban development, Wright & Wright's Women's Library in Whitechapel is a finely crafted series of intimate spaces, while on the micro scale, Jeremy Till & Sarah Wigglesworth's own self-built house in Islington shows what can be achieved through ingenious and robust use of materials.
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