Factory with flexibility built in

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Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners has designed a factory for the German plastics company, Igus. The steel-clad building incorporates a high level of flexibility as well as expressing the company's corporate structure. The roof is suspended from four pylons situated in inner courtyards. Ventilation and natural lighting are provided from roof domes while offices are housed in moveable 'pods.' There were no serious problems for the British architect or contractor working in Germany.

Buildings and facilities, Factories, Igus GmbH

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Libeskindbau leads where other museums should follow

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Daniel LIbeskind's Jewish Museum opened recently in Berlin, after 10 years in the making. The Libeskindbau museum is narrative architecture of a deeply abstracted materiality, and its folded lightning shape is redolent of Expressionism. The Aalto running stair leads to a crossroads where a path leads into a memorial garden, which is a hypostyle grid of columns containing trees planted in soil from Jerusalem.

Museums and art galleries, Museums & Art Galleries, Museums, Architecture, Architectural design, Architectural museums

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