Happiness is a subtle house that Max built

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Max Gordon's architecture presented a balance between Classicism and Modernism creating universally appreciated buildings, an example of which is the Saatchi Collection building in St John's Wood, London. The Architecture Foundation is exhibiting his drawings, models and photographs posthumously in May 1992. His trademarks are quality finishes, accuracy and lighting. Gordon believed that architecture has a purpose beyond pretentiously designed buildings. He wrote that museums and galleries are for displaying artefacts and pictures so they need to be quiet and harmonious to allow study.

Exhibitions, Architecture, British, British architecture, Gordon, Max

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Once we've got it built, we can get to work wrecking it

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The Building Research Establishment at Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, was established in 1925 to investigate buildings and materials for reaction to fire and explosion. Its results are incorporated in building regulations throughout Europe. Research into building structures was disconnected until the RAF Cardington test facility was opened. The office block in St Mary Axe, City of London reacted in the opposite way to that predicted when an IRA bomb destroyed it in 1992. Tests had only been on individual beams.

Research, England, Office buildings, Building research, United Kingdom. Department of the Environment. Property Services Agency, Building Research Establishment

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This is the tower that Tom built

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Tom Dixon, 33, a creative European furniture designer whose work featured in the Capellini office, advertises his display in the South Kensington shop window of Joseph Ettedgui with a 30-ft stylised, lit pylon on the roof. His stage sets and exhibition designs led him into sculpture and expressionist engineeering, where he thinks of the design from the outside in. He prefers modern materials such as alloys and carbon fibres.

Design and construction, Personalities, Works, Sculpture, Furniture design, Dixon, Tom

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