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Editorial<br />
Building with Steel<br />
Precision, performance and technical appearance are<br />
all important attributes that architects associate with<br />
steel. In this issue of DETAIL, the Fellows Pavilion of<br />
the American Academy in Berlin and the EU Council<br />
headquarters in Brussels comply with this image in<br />
quite different ways.<br />
In contrast, the monumental roof structure over the<br />
Telcel Theatre in Mexico City demonstrates the archaic<br />
sculptural strength of the material, while the sensual<br />
qualities of steel used for the outer skin of a building<br />
can be recognized in the restrained form of the pumping<br />
station in Bochum with its new facade of partly<br />
perforated sheeting. Constructional intelligence is the<br />
overriding theme of the introductory article about the<br />
lamella halls of the aviation engineer Hugo Junkers as<br />
it is, indeed, of the feature on the highly demanding<br />
manufacture and tremendous performance of steel<br />
monocoque structures.
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