The Architectural Review (November 2010)

The latest issue of The Architectural Review is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

VIEW

• Revealed: Eero Saarinen's secret wartime role in the White House
• The impact of the Commonwealth Games on the cityscape of Delhi
• How will Castro's change of course affect Cuban architecture?
• The Museum of Modern Art in New York reveals its sensitive side
• Charles Correa's new research unit is an urban beacon for Lisbon

BUILDINGS

• Map
• Bolles+Wilson Helmond City Library, Helmond, the Netherlands
• Manuelle Gautrand Lille Métropole Museum of Modern Art, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
• Zaha Hadid Architects Evelyn Grace Academy, London, UK
• Stéphane Beel Architecten deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp, Belgium
• Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira, Jun Saung Kim Mimesis Museum, Paju Book City, South Korea
• JLCG Arquitectos São Jorge Castle Archaeological Site, Lisbon, Portugal

SKILL

• Peter Rich investigates masonry vault structures for the Prince of Wales' sustainability garden party

EXPLORING EYE

• Duccio Malagamba navigates the vast lengths and breadths of Brasilia, 50 years on from its inauguration as capital of Brazil

MARGINALIA

• The Swedish welfare state; Dante's inferno alights in Waterloo; John Piper's acute observations; sublime visions of terror by Piranesi

DELIGHT

• For the Jewish festival of Sukkot, 600 architects compete to design a temporary structure, or sukkah