Articles from The Architectural Review (October 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Aussie rules: in the heart of Melbourne, the world's tallest residential tower acts as an agent of densification and regeneration.			390
Browser.			885
Changing Hospital Architecture.		Book review	540
City subtleties: despite its scale, this speculative office tower for the City of London attempts to evoke a sense of place and respond to a sense of history.			353
Crucial Words--Conditions for Contemporary Architecture.		Book review	494
Cultured Pearl: working in the hot house of China, SOM attempt to radically redefine the relationship between tall buildings and their energy consumption.			403
Delight.			366
Dubai spire: the mantle of the world's tallest building will soon pass to the Burj Dubai, now rising up over the Gulf.			417
Dynamic hybrid: a cluster of towers ingeniously linked by a vertiginous bridge inverts the conventional relationship between tall buildings and the public realm.			385
Garden tower: wrapped in a gridded skin that recalls a traditional masharabiya, this tower in Riyadh tempers and tames extremes of climate.			363
Ghanaian veils: finessing the challenges of climate and locale, high rise comes to West Africa in the form of a bold, 30-storey residential tower.			413
Green giant: consolidating his reputation as the doyen of eco-towers, Ken Yeang's provocative vision of vertical urban design continues to evolve.			361
Height: between possibility and responsibility: height is the subject of the thematic exhibition at the inaugural World Architecture Festival in Barcelona this month. Curator Jeremy Melvin introduces the theme in relation to tall buildings around the world.	Melvin, Jeremy		1644
Kindly take the stage: the eagerly anticipated Venice architecture Biennale kicks off three months of exhibitionism; swiss meister peter zumthor is awarded the praemium imperiale for architecture; peter cook has a hazy, crazy month culminating at the Venice biennale as curator of the Cyprus Pavilion.	Finch, Paul		436
Le Corbusier the life of forms: 'the time of history ... a sea occupied by innumerable forms of a finite number of types.'.	Rubier, George	In memoriam	4075
Milan elan: Milan's civic heart is animated by an elegant and ingenious new kind of big screen made of woven metal mesh.			654
Northern star: at the northern limit for tall buildings, Foster's daring Russia tower tests extremes of scale, structure and form.			454
On the skyline: building high in New York after 9/11 invariably carries a huge weight of responsibilities, but also suggests new possibilities for city life.			608
Peter cook: our peripatetic columnist gathers his thoughts after a few Venice Bellinis.	Cook, Peter		1031
The Endless City.		Book review	392
The froth and flotsam of the Biennale permeate Venice.			1642
The Prefab House comes under Scrutiny at New York's MoMA.			710
Torre Mexicana: OMA'S new landmark tower for Mexico city is a powerful symbol of identity, allied to propositions about density, history and the modern city.	Melvin, Jeremy		403
Tropical twin towers: Foreign Office's proposal for residential high rise in Kuala Lumpur is shaped by climate and latitude.		Brief article	305
Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind.		Book review	602