I
The Stepped Hall
Civic Archive, Haldane Quay
Each floor reaches a little further than the one beneath it, so the building shades its own doorway. In August the lower terrace is the coolest room in the city, and the archivists eat lunch there in silence.
- Poured
- 1967
- Atelier
- Vos & Haldane
- Storeys
- Four, on pilotis
- Finish
- Board-marked fir
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II
The Coffered Wall
Weller House, residential block
Forty-eight deep window boxes, each one a small room of shadow. Residents say they can tell the hour by how far the dark has crept across the sills. Select a window to switch its lamp on.
- Poured
- 1971
- Atelier
- Okonjo Partnership
- Homes
- 48
- Reveal depth
- 620 mm
III
The Tower and Its Shadow
Signal Tower, Ostmark Ridge
Fourteen storeys of vertical fins with nothing at the top but a water tank and a view. At either end of the day its shadow is the longest thing in the valley, reaching the river by dusk.
- Poured
- 1974
- Atelier
- Brandt Lindqvist
- Height
- 52 m
- Fins
- 212, precast
“Concrete remembers everything that touched it while it was soft.”Ines Vos, site diary, 1966
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