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High-tech architecture aligned with the revival of Victorian values in the 1980s, but did not end up producing the factories of a new period of British creativity, says Owen Hatherley.
To conclude our high-tech architecture series, we round up everything you need to know about the movement from A to Z. High-tech architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano collaborated together ...
It's been almost 30 years since the architectural and decorative style known as high tech hit the American scene. Arising during the mid-1970s, and legitimized by Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin's ...
Influenced by engineering and new technology, High Tech is a style that accentuates a building’s construction. High Tech was a development in British Modernist architecture from the late 1960s. It was ...
Annette Fierro’s Architectures of the Technopolis explores the often manic impulses of postwar Britain, as expressed in its capital’s built fabric. The book is ostensibly an investigation into the ...
As one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture (along with his friend and colleague Richard Rogers), his buildings celebrate exposed structure, advanced engineering, and machine-age style.
According to Snøhetta, the high-rise does not use any grid-based power to heat, cool, nor to ventilate its interior (though, to be clear, it does use it for other things like lighting etc).