A REPORT ON HIGH

TECH
ARCHITECTURE
High Tech is the style of
architecture practiced by Richard Rogers and Nor
Foster
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ARCHITECTURE introduction ,

1. High-tech architecture, also known as Late Modernism or

Structural Expressionism, is an architectural style that
emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech
industry and technology into building design.
2. High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism,
an extension of those previous ideas aided by even more
advances in technological achievements.
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ARCHITECTURE , introduction

1. This category serves as a bridge between modernism and

post-modernism, however there remain gray areas as to
where one category ends and the other begins.
2. In the 1980s, high-tech architecture became more difficult
to distinguish from post-modern architecture.
3. Many of its themes and ideas were absorbed into the
language of the post-modern architectural schools.
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➢ Like Brutalism, Structural Expressionist buildings reveal their

structure on the outside as well as the inside, but with visual
emphasis placed on the internal steel and/or concrete skeletal
structure as opposed to exterior concrete walls.

➢ In buildings such as the Pompidou Centre, this idea of revealed

structure is taken to the extreme, with apparently structural
components serving little or no structural role. In this case, the
use of "structural" steel is a stylistic or aesthetic matter.

➢ The style's premier practitioners include the BritishThe style's

premier practitioners include the British architect Norman
FosterThe style's premier practitioners include the British
architect Norman Foster, whose work has since earned him
knighthood, and SpanishThe style's premier practitioners
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ARCHITECTURE,background
◼ Buildings in this architectural style were constructed mainly in North
AmericaBuildings in this architectural style were constructed mainly
in North America and Europe
◼ It is deeply connected with what is called the Second School of
ChicagoIt is deeply connected with what is called the Second School
of Chicago which emerged after World War II.
◼ The main content is that the technological kind of construction,
mostly with steel and glass, is expressed in a formal independent way
to gain own aesthetic qualities out of it.
◼ The first proper example are the 860-880 Lake Shore Drive
ApartmentsThe first proper example are the 860-880 Lake Shore
Drive Apartments by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
◼ The scientific and technological advances had a big impact on
societies in the 1970s.
 High tech is technology
HIGH TECH that is at the cutting
edge—the most advanced
ARCHITECTURE, technology
EXAMPLE

Associated with
industrial-like style and
the implementation of an
advance technology of
the construction world.

High tech architecture

resembles the
collaboration of the art of
power, urban living,
minimalist concept and
Above is an example of a high tech Architecture. This masculine feature
Glittering Residential tower is located in Roppongi
hills, Tokyo. Own by Mori, one of the most establish
company in Japan.
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ARCHITECTURE,PROFILE

o A British citizen
o Born on 23 July 1933, Florence
o Practice Name : Richard Rogers
Partnership
o Centre Georges Pompidou
Lloyd's building,
Millennium Dome,
National Assembly for Wales are some
of his significant buildings
 Richard Rogers, LIFE &JOURNEY
⑥ Attended the Architectural Association School in London before
graduating from Yale University
⑥ He and his first wife, Sue, worked in partnership with Norman and
Wendy Foster as "Team 4".
⑥ His designs were use to lavish, enthusiastic
⑥ In 1970 Rogers with Renzo Piano established a partnership.
⑥ After the completion of the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Richard
Rogers Partnership was formed.
⑥ His works reject the classical past, while enthusiastically embracing a
technological future with its accompanying aesthetic.
⑥ Although he places emphasis on technology, he believes that it cannot
be an end in itself, but must attempt to solve existing social and
ecological problems.
⑥ Noted for his modernist and functionalist designs.
 Richard Rogers, PROJECTS
⑥ 88 Wood Street, at London, England, 1993 to 2001.
⑥ Centre Pompidou, at Paris, France, 1972 to 1976.
⑥ INMOS Factory, at Newport, South Wales, 1980 to 1982.
⑥ Lloyds Building, at London, England, 1979 to 1984.
⑥ Millennium Dome, at London, England, 1999.
⑥ PA Technology Center, at Princeton, New Jersey, 1982.
⑥ PA Technology Center UK, at Hertfordshire, England, 1975 to 1983.
⑥ Palais des Droits de l'Homme, at Strasbourg, France, 1989 to 1995.
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 CENTRE POMPIDOU, FRANCE
⑥ Horizontal circulation platforms inside the frame
— uncomfortable in access and emergency exits .
⑥ boilers and chillers of the building's central plant
— located in the basement of the building
⑥ Frame is stiffened laterally by cross bracing in the
vertical plane
⑥ Stiffening in the other vertical plane is added by
diagonal braces between the lattice girders on
both gable walls.
⑥ A modern art museum designed by Rogers and
Piano
⑥ High-tech steel and glass technology used
⑥ Designed in urban context in temperate climate
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⑥ The superstructure of the building
consists of three zones.
⑥ The middle zone contains the
157-foot (48-meter) clear span
across the building interior between
the main columns.
⑥ The outside two zones make up
structural wall frames to support and
cantilever the main span lattice
girders.
⑥ The escalator serves only the
mezzanine, level four, and level six.
Public access to the museum areas is
from doors located centrally at the
lower edge of the plaza.
 88 WOOD STREET, ENGLAND
⑥ Encompasses Tower 42 in the east to the
Telecom Tower in the west.
⑥ Dense, high-profile neighborhood
⑥ With its unapologetic modern facade, the
building combines a jagged profile in an
elegant concrete frame that is braced by
gunmetal gray and stainless steel rods
⑥ Round the corner, next to London Wall,
there is a beautiful cacophony of
rendered stainless steel and exposed lift
shafts
⑥ The blue ducts take in fresh air, and the
red ones exhaust used air. Coupled with
the bright yellow steel stairs
 88 WOOD STREET, ENGLAND
⑥ Commercial office towers built on concrete
frame with steel bracing and glass curtain
walls
⑥ Built on temperate urban context with high
tech modern style
⑥ Expressed structure as ornamental order
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⑥ On the Wood Street side, the

building is kept to an understated
eight stories with two more levels
set back and obscured from the
street.
⑥ This is three building, providing
three terrace blocks rising westward
in steps, first to 14 stories, then to
18, arranged to be accommodated
within the site's restrictive
geometries.
⑥ The airiness and daylight comes
from the use of floor-to-ceiling
triple glazing throughout
 MILLENIUM DOME, LONDON
⑥ The O2, still generally referred
to by its former name, the
Millennium Dome

⑥ Date : 1999

⑥ It is a large dome shaped

building on the Greenwich
peninsula in south east London

⑥ The O2 is the largest

single-roofed structure in the
world.
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◼ The dome was constructed in order to

hold a major exhibition celebrating the
beginning of the third millennium

◼ Externally it appears as a large white

marquee with 100 m-high yellow
support towers, one for each month of
the year, or each hour of the clock face,
representing the role played by
Greenwich Mean Time.
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⑥ In plan view it is circular, 365 m in
diameter — one meter for each day of
the year — with scalloped edges. It has
become one of the United Kingdom's
most recognizable landmarks.

⑥ Although called a dome it is not strictly

one as it is not self-supporting, but is a
mast-supported, dome-shaped cable
network.

⑥ The canopy is made of PTFE coated

glass fibre fabric, a durable and
weather-resistant plastic, and is 50 m
high in the middle.
 ZURICH AIRPORT,
SWITZERLAND
⑥ A new international satellite building
served by a below-apron transit system
from the existing International Terminal,
to include 16 -18 gates, immigration
controls, retail and C.I.P. lounges.
⑥ The control tower site lines constrained
the height of the structure, which is high
at the centre and low at the perimeter.
⑥ This facilitated minimal glazing and
maximum day lighting efficiency.
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SWITZERLAND
⑥ The elliptical form is made up of
pre-fabricated components, allowing
repetitive standardized assembly using
sustainable materials.
⑥ Transfer, plant and offices are located
at arrivals level while the upper
departures level includes all retail,
catering, C.I.P. and passenger lounges.
⑥ The aircraft bridges are externally
located and are designed to be easily
moveable.
⑥ The building features a low- energy air
conditioning system facilitated
through the double skin envelope.
 GLASGOW BRIDGE, SCOTLAND
⑥ The new bridge spans the Clyde by means of a curved ramped deck which
sweeps across the river in an elliptical path, creating a new city icon.
⑥ The continuous curve and gradual ramp of the crescent bridge allows common
access for all users
⑥ The alignment of the elliptical deck on the axis of the upstream section of the
river creates varied and unusual views whilst allowing headroom below the
bridge for river traffic.
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⑥ Uses the principle of a
cable stayed
compression arch and a
suspended deck to
create a dynamic and
memorable structure.

⑥ Two new high quality

linear parklands on
either side
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ARCHITECTURE, PROFILE

⑥ The Lord Foster of Thames Bank is a

British citizen

⑥ Born on June 1, 1935 at Manchester,

England

⑥ Practice name,sir Norman Foster

⑥ Graduated from Manchester

University School of Architecture
and Yale University

⑥ Significant Project : American

Hanger at the Imperial War Museum,
Duxford
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ST ER,
⑥ Awards and Prizes : RIBA Royal Gold Medal (1983), Knighthood
from the Queen of England (1990), RIBA Trustees Medal (1990), The
Order of Merit (1997), Stirling Prize, Pritzker Architecture Prize
(1999), Minerva Medal
⑥ Co-founded a team of four with Richard Rogers and in 1967 founded
Foster Associates.
⑥ Most recently, in September of 2007, Foster was awarded the Aga
Khan Award for Architecture, the largest architectural award in the
world, for the PETRONAS University of Technology, Bandar Seri in
Iskandar, Malaysia.
⑥ In his work, he often uses off-site manufactured parts and the
repetition of modular elements.
⑥ Designs were originally a stylish, machine influenced high-tech but he
has moved away from this to a more sublime, more acceptable
sharp-edged modernity
 SIR NORMAN FOSTER, projects

⑥ 1977: Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich,

UK
⑥ 1979-86: Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong
⑥ 1987-1991: Century Tower Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
⑥ 1987-1997: American Air Museum, Duxford, UK
⑥ 1988-1995: Metro Entrance, Bilbao, Spain
⑥ 1989-1992: Cranfield University Library, Bedfordshire, UK
⑥ 1990-1995: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, UK
⑥ 1991-1993: Lycée Albert Camus, Fréjus, France
⑥ 1991-97: Commerzbank , Frankfurt, Germany
⑥ 1992-99: New German Parliament, Berlin, Germany
⑥ 1995-2001: Daewoo Research and Development, Seoul, South Korea
⑥ 2000-2002: London City Hall, London England.
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BANK
⑥ The Hongkong and Shanghai bank located in
Hongkong is one of his finest design considering
the crucial need of natural lighting and energy
saving.

⑥ This commercial office tower uses a dramatic

exoskeleton steel trusses with vast exterior glazing
to express the sensation of high technological era.

⑥ With huge atrium decorated with escalators and

glass walls, this banking headquarter also
demonstrate the use of natural light scoop for
lighting inside the grand atrium in daylight times
instead of using artificial lighting which costs a
huge amount of energy consumption.
 LONDON CITY HALL
⑥ The London's city hall “The Egg” is one of
the Foster’s latest design in the UK with
extensive use of glass cladding.

⑥ This slender Egg shaped Government

building is located by the river THAMES in
the heart of London & is owned by the
great London authority.

⑥ It was completed in 2003 within the

riverside urban context city of London plus
technology of environmental design
blended with modern high-tech style.
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⑥ It is located in the city of London &
informally known as "The Gherkin".
⑥ It is 180 m tall, making it the 2nd tallest
building in the City of London, and the 6th
tallest in London as a whole.

⑥ The building is famous for its daring

architecture by Pritzker Prize winner Sir
Norman Foster and ex-partner Ken
Shuttleworth.

⑥ It won the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award

for the best skyscraper in the world in 2003.
⑥ Its design won the prestigious RIBA Stirling
Prize for the best new building by a RIBA
architect in 2004.
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⑥ It was completed in 2003. It has a cone-like
shape to reduce the wind turbulence around the
top.
⑥ Windows in light wells open automatically to
augment the air conditioning system with natural
ventilation, an occurrence anticipated to save
energy for up to 40% of the year.
⑥ The floor plans are shaped like flowers, with a
circular perimeter indented by 6 triangular light
courts. The indentations remain a constant size
at each level,while the space between them
diminishes.
⑥ The floor plan is rotated for each successive
floor, creating a series of spiraling 5-storey atria
that stretch the full height of the building.
 SAINSBURY CENTRE

⑥ The Sainsbury Centre for Visual

Arts at the University of East
Anglia in Norwich was built in
1977 to house the art collection of
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury.

⑥ It is located in Northwich of
England which was constructed
with space frame and walls.
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⑥ It is a highly tuned and

well-engineered shed for art of
considerable sophistication
serving as a research institute with
public access gallery.

⑥ The white walls and roofs take the

form of continuous trusses and all
services are housed within the
'outer wall zone’.
 MILLAU VIADUCT,FRANCE

⑥ It is a highway bridge, viaduct; which is

located in Millau, Tarn Valley, France

⑥ reinforced concrete, steel cables, several

curving cable-stayed spans were used for
Construction

⑥ It is also called as "Viaduc de Millau". World's

tallest bridge, 2004. The highest of the bridge's
seven concrete pillars stands at 1,125 feet, 62
feet higher than the Eiffel Tower.
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⑥ At almost 1.5 miles, it is longer than the
Champs Elysees and slightly curved to
afford drivers a dramatic view of the
surrounding countryside and the ancient
town of Millau with its medieval bell
tower.

⑥ Its elegant lines allow it to blend

seamlessly into the surrounding region
famed for its gorges, medieval villages
and Roquefort cheese.
Santiago Calatrava,PROFILE

◼ Name ; Santiago Calatrava valls

◼ Born; 28 July 1951
Benimàmet, Valencia, Spain
◼ Engineering; Structural engineer,
◼ Discipline; ArchitectDiscipline;
Architect, Sculptor
◼ Education; Polytechnic University
of Valencia
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
◼ Practice name; Santingo Calatrava
 Santiago Calatrav ,projects

◼ Athens Olympic Sports Complex

◼ Auditorio de Tenerife
◼ Alamillo bridge
◼ Chords Bridge
◼ Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències & etc
 Santiago Calatrav ,projects
WORLDS MOST H.T.
BRIDGE IN PRTAH
BUILDING
CONCLUSION

◼ High tech architecture is the modern and latest renounce style of

architecture. Using suitable material with creative use of it and using
abstract or building form and using structural style can be sum as high
tech style.
◼ Now days high tech with post modernism style were mostly used.
◼ High tech architecture is the creative concept of architecture
◼ Creative technology used to create any style of form so that no any
problem come from structure.
◼ Its style growing day by day , because we need every time new
material, new technology, new concept & new form.
◼ Now , high tech architecture also concept of green architecture
◼ It is sorrow that we are still in practice on modern Architecture