About the Book
An exploration of contemporary architecture's decision to 'think big', this book will inform and inspire architects, engineers and anyone who wonders at these extraordinary structures.
Exhibition halls and sports arenas, factories and warehouses, airports and railway stations, arts centres and concert halls: big sheds are all around us yet the story behind their extraordinary growth has gone untold.
Beginning with the roots of the big shed - including 19th-century iron structures, the work of Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, and the Pompidou and Sainsbury Centres - the book is organized by function: exhibitions, industry, transport, sports and arts. Together these areas account for the best examples of big sheds over the past twenty years, and include work by Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Jean Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind, Nicholas Grimshaw and Toyo Ito, among many others.
From the vertiginous daring of Tokyo International Forum to Madrid's award-winning Barajas Airport, these structures have changed the very nature of architecture. Throughout the book Pryce's dramatic photography captures the buildings' primal vastness, while technical drawings help explain how they were designed, built and function.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; The Origins of the Big Shed; Pompidou Centre, France; Sainsbury Centre, England; Exhibition; Expo Hall 4, Hanover; Expo Hall 26, Hanover; Expo Halls 8 & 9, Hanover; Messehalle 3, Frankfurt; Congrexpo Grand Palais, Lille Zenith, Rouen; Tokyo International Forum, Japan; Industry; Igus Factory, Cologne New York Times Printing Works, USA; The Cargolifter Airship Hanger, Berlin; The Jean-Luc Lagardere Building, Toulouse; Hamburg Jumbo Hangar, Germany; HACTL Cargo Terminal, Hong Kong; Transport; Stuttgart Airport Terminals 2 & 3, Stuttgart Oslo Airport, Oslo; Madrid Airport, Madrid; Kansai Airport, Japan; Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong; New Inchon Transportation Centre, Korea; Singapore Expo Station, Singapore; Sydney Olympics Stadium, Sydney; Sport; National Training Centre for Rhythmic Gymnastics, Alicante; Sydney International Aquatic Centre, Sydney; Sydney Superdrome, Sydney; Buchholz Sports Centre, Switzerland; Arts; The Millennium Dome, London; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester Federation Square, Melbourne; KKL, Lucerne; The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia; USAF Museum Duxford, Duxford; The Walt Disney Concert Hall; The Guggenheim at Bilbao, Bilbao; Sage Centre at Gateshead, Gateshead; Conclusion.
About the Author :
Will Pryce is an award-winning photographer who trained as an architect at Cambridge University and as a photographer at the Royal College of Art, London. He is the creator of Architecture in Wood and, with James Campbell, the internationally acclaimed Brick.
Review :
'Will inform, delight and inspire architects, engineers and anyone who simply wonders at these extraordinary structures' - New Design
