Brief Fit - Accommodation distribution
Design
1999 (made)
1999 (made)
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This is a design for City Hall, the headquarters of the Greater London Authority, built between 1998 and 2002 by the British architects Foster and Partners. In this drawing dated 1999 they show how the internal space will be divided. The colour code and the notes on the right indicate the distribution of public areas (yellow), the mayor’s accommodation (red), the assembly secretariat (green), common services (purple) and the assembly chamber (mauve). The drawing was made using Computer Aided Design (CAD) and shows a ‘section’, where the building appears to have been cut in half. It is not the kind of seductive image intended to impress a client or to wow the public. Instead it is a means of communicating design information through simple graphics, and in this it is very successful. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds several similar drawings from the same scheme, each one dealing with a different design issue.
Object details
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| Title | Brief Fit - Accommodation distribution (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | CAD (Computer Aided Design) colour print-out on paper |
| Brief description | 'Brief Fit - Accommodation distribution' design for the proposed building for the New Headquarters for the Greater London Authority by Foster and Partners, 1999 |
| Physical description | Coloured CAD drawing showing the building in section with a colour coded key in the bottom left hand corner and building levels running vertically on the right hand side to denote accommodation distribution throughout the building according to public areas (yellow), Mayor's accommodation (red), Assembly Secretariat (green), Common services (purple) or Assembly Chamber (mauve). |
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| Production type | Design |
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| Credit line | Given by the designer |
| Object history | The design for the Headquarters for the Greater London Authority by Foster and Partners was to achieve a low energy building through the use of ecologically sound passive environment control systems and construction shape. |
| Production | Reason For Production: Commission |
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| Summary | This is a design for City Hall, the headquarters of the Greater London Authority, built between 1998 and 2002 by the British architects Foster and Partners. In this drawing dated 1999 they show how the internal space will be divided. The colour code and the notes on the right indicate the distribution of public areas (yellow), the mayor’s accommodation (red), the assembly secretariat (green), common services (purple) and the assembly chamber (mauve). The drawing was made using Computer Aided Design (CAD) and shows a ‘section’, where the building appears to have been cut in half. It is not the kind of seductive image intended to impress a client or to wow the public. Instead it is a means of communicating design information through simple graphics, and in this it is very successful. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds several similar drawings from the same scheme, each one dealing with a different design issue. |
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| Accession number | E.959-2000 |
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| Record created | July 28, 2000 |
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