N° 24 : Tevfik Seno Arda School, Izmit, Turkey
A seismic resistant building in steel

The building, the cost of which amounted to 1 200 000 euros, replaced a school demolished in the 1999 earthquake. It was completed and opened for use in September 2006 thanks to the financial and material donations of ECCS, ArcelorMittal, Corus, thirty-two members of Turkish Structural Steel Association, plus eighteen companies from Turkey.
The school, composed of sixteen classrooms, four laboratories, a computer room, a library, a conference room and an administrative area, was constructed around a central atrium.

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N° 23: Case Study - Quai Branly Museum

Jean Nouvel's museum extends along the quai Branly in all its complexity. This Noah's ark with a steel skeleton of 3400 tonnes, measuring 220 metres in length and 40 metres in width comprises four main buildings: on the Seine side are the administrative buildings and the rustling and humming landscape of its living façade of vegetation (created by Patrick Blanc); on the rue de l'Université side are the restoration workshops where ceilings are illuminated by aboriginal paintings. The media library and museum nestle in the centre of the garden created by Gilles Clément.

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N° 22: Case Study - ING Group Headquarters, Amsterdam

The use of steel construction was integral part of the architectural concept. Because of the steel column structure the designers have succeeded in realizing the space concept of the house; combining large and small scale spaces with different functions to form a small city in the sky with transparent walls.

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N° 21: Case Study - Swiss Re Office building

The Swiss Re tower has been created as an environmentally responsible building with natural economy of form, fully sympathetic with its urban context. and forming a humanised workplace of the highest quality.

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n°20 - 50 years of steel architecture in Europe

Established in 1955, the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork was one of the first European institutions. The celebration of its 50th anniversary is an opportunity to bring together for the first time a selection of one hundred projects built over the past 50 years across Europe, presented in the form of an exhibition inaugurated in Nice and in the present issue of Architecture Steel Stahl Acier. These buildings and bridges built across Europe typify steel's role as one of the driving forces behind architectural creativity. This diversity of forms illustrates the capacity and quality of steel, the feats it enables, and demonstrates its ability to stand the test of time while still remaining contemporary.

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n°19 - Double-skin façades :
Sanoma House, Baltic Sea Tower, Radiolinja office building

In Finland, where the climatic conditions are severe, special attention has been given to using double-skin façades for extensive glazed surfaces. In addition the objective has been to maximize the amount of natural light in working environments. At the end of 1990´s and at the beginnig of early 2000 several office buildings with double façades were erected in the country.

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n°18 - Town hall, Alphen aan den Rijn

Alphen aan den Rijn has experienced explosive growth over the past 20 years. Due to its central location in the "Randstad" between Utrecht and Leyden as well as to the fact that Alphen functions regionally as an urban growth centre, the former village has now grown into a mature town of more than 70,000 inhabitants.
One of the most important architectural considerations for the town hall in Alphen aan den Rijn was the desire to construct an exceptional building of high quality and which stands out from the surrounding buildings through its appearance and stature.

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n°17 - Olympic Stadium, Istanbul

Developed as part of Turkey's bid to host the 2004 Olympic Games, the new Istanbul stadium which provides a seating capacity of 80 000 including 50 000 under cover, forms the focus for a sporting city in the making. Its two roofs, with their very different forms, provide a distinctive asymmetry, and the lower terraces, sunk into the ground, contrast with the elevated lands, which rise above the landscape. More than just the sporting events or concerts, the stadium creates a whole new environment.

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n°16 - TGV Stations

With the TGV as the main theme, the three new stations of the Mediterranean line are unusual structures, created on green field sites. Each responds to specific constraints and follows its own design logic: the interconnection of rail networks for Valence; the climatic exposure for Avignon; the confrontation with the celebrated Sainte-Victoire mountain for Aix-en-Provence. Each in its own way engages a dialogue with the landscape and foreshadows a future development more caring for nature.

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n°15 - House R 128

"... a residential building erected today can be - and should be - absolutely emission- free and capable of being powered solely by wind and/or solar energy. The building must be fully recyclable which demands a method of construction that allows the future separation of materials into single- material components. This in turn entails new techniques of manufacture and assembly. The open design allows more flexible arrangements of living spaces."

Werner Sobek

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n°14 - The Eden Project

The Eden project in Cornwall, UK, is the largest plant enclosure in the world, recreating tropical and warm temperate habitats. The primary design objective was to create the correct environment for growth using minimum water and energy. The key issues were also orientation, natural lighting and heating, and maximum recycling of water. The space frame form of the domes minimised the size and number of structural elements. The required high transparency of the envelope was achieved using ETFE (Ethylene Tetra Fluoro Ethylene) foil, capable of covering wide spans supported by the most minimal of structures.

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n°13 - Office building, Phoenixstraat 60, Delft

The vision was to construct a modern, functional building for an architectural office fitting it to the existing townscape and at the same time developing new cost effective techniques to reduce maintenance and energy costs.

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n°12 - Lucerne Cultural and Convention Centre

The Lucerne Cultural & Convention Centre - an important national and international venue for the arts - is situatedon the lakeside of the Vierwaldstattersee, and at the source of the river Reuss. Nearby is Santiago Calatrava's railway station. The Cultural and Convention Centre is part of the alpine landscape. which forms a back- drop to the medieval city of Lucerne and Sweizerhofquai.
A range of different materials is used in achieving the architectural form of the complex. Steel in the roof structure is the key element of the building.

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n°11 - Service stations Houten, Orival, Hietalahi

Service stations are specific often independant structures, serving customers traveling by car. As a structural materal, steel makes it possible to adapt these structures to different surroundings from city centres to open countryside. The wide range of steel products makes it possible to develop new kinds of environments as illustated by Houten, Orivalaera and Helsinki-Hietalahi sevice stations.

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n°10 - The Reichstag, Berlin

The design for the renovation of berlin Reichtag, the historic German parliament building by Wallot from 1894, was the subject of an international competition won by Sir Norman Foster. The winning scheme introduced radical changes, following the new masterplan for the city prepared by Axel Schultes, to retain as much of Wallot's original building as possible. The principal feature of Foster's revisited scheme was the replacement of the original dome, largely cosmetic and badly damaged, by a huge transparent hemisphere, with a central reflector directing natural lightinto the building.

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n°9 - Terminal 2F, Roissy

The fifth terminal at Charles-de-Gaulle international airport, Paris, Roissy 2F marks a new generation of this type of building reflecting changes in airline operation and increasing numbers of passengers. Steel has proved itself well suited to the design challenge, resulting in a building which is more holistic, more transparent, and in a sense less important than the space it encloses.

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n°8 - Terminal 3

The Station terminal - now called Terminal 3 - is the building complex connecting the Kastrup railway station on the new Øresund line with the existing airport terminals, thus creating a new pivot for most international and domestic journeys.
The architectural concept for Terminal 3 is based upon the fact that the building will be the central element in the future airport structure.

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n°7 - Dogan printing centre

A light structure with a tower welcomes visitors to the Turkish capital on their way from the Esenboga airport to the city. The huge printing house, standing in its lawned surroundings, and stratified by horizontal bands, is beautifully illuminated at night. The vertical glass cylinder completes the complex, which, as an example of lightweight and fast construction, is one of the pioneers of a new architectural era in Turkey.

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n°6 - Turku academy of art

Turku, the former capital of Finland, has succeeded well in transforming an industrial environment with several time layers into new, vibrant town space. The conversion of the old rope factory and a shipbuilding shed of steel construction into an art centre has contributed to a high-quality urban environment. The modern architectural design, technology and steel construction have combined to create an imaginative connection between the new development and the historical townscape.

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n°5 - The Guggenheim museum, Bilbao

A stunning building, already celebrated throughout the world, and whose extravagant free forms are supported on 4,500 tonnes of steel frames, complex in their form but very simple in the limited range of elements.
From the physical model and sophisticated computer modelling the design and construction were realised: information technology helping to shape the architecture.

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n°4 - RFB building

The design concept was based on a multi-layer approach:
main building, glass, suspended walls and sun shade elements
additional space within and outside the building.

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n°3 - TAZ Berlin

A house for a newspaper.
Clarity of expression, comprehensibility of process, a principle of democracy. Created with the construction material - steel.

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n°2 - L'Oréal factory, Paris

This is one of L'Oréal's largest manufacturing facilities for cosmetic and hair care products. This site consists of three production units, control laboratories, administration and social facilities.
The client wanted a development which would encourage productivity in a good working environment, and wich would promote the firm's image.
The complex also had to blend sensitively into the site and at the same time provide a green central area, screened from its surroundings.

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n°1 - Brussimo house

Brussimmo house, currently occupied by EFTA (the European Free Trade Association), is situated at the corner of the rue Belliard and the rue de Trèves in the heart of the business district of Brussels.
It is quite different from the surrounding buildings, which are mainly of reinforced concrete frame construction, with solid façades of concrete, stone or aluminium.
The steel framework and external glass skin give the building an immediate impression of transparency and lightness.

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