10 Nov 2011: Lukasz Platkowski of Gensler visited us for a day. We were very lucky to have him as he is doing a lot of travelling to Doha, Dubai and Riyadh, with major projects on site under construction. This was an ideal time for him to visit as he is expert on the process of form finding and configuring of tall buildings. Lukasz delivered a lecture at lunchtime, with some case studies of some of Gensler's current projects. This included the
Shanghai Tower which is about 100m high now, and will be about 650m when it is completed. He also covered the
KAFD World Trade Center in Riyadh.
http://inhabitat.com/shanghai-tower-by-gensler/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Tower
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=185963
Gensler are one of the world's largest architectural practices and their
projects page is a wonder to behold!
As for the humbler projects by our students, he says he enjoyed the day and felt that everybody had a concept and a form developing. There's a week to go before the first interim crit, so we anticipate a tough week ahead of modelling and drawing.
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