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Andrew Simmons

Important links to Ove Arup activities around the world

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Thanks again for Wednesday morning. Learned quite a bit, of course with more than a bit of fun as well.

I mentioned Sir Ove's 'Key Speech' for Arup. Here's a link to the speech itself ... 1970 - Sir Ove Arup's 'Key Speech' :
http://publications.arup.com/Publications/O/Ove_Arups_Key_Speech.aspx

Also, I found three articles profiling Arup's business model and company culture:

Sep 2013 - Metropolis Magazine: 'The Sky's the Limit: How Arup became the go-to firm for the most challenging and ambitious projects of our time'
www.metropolismag.com/September-2013/The-Skys-the-Limit/

June 2005 - Guardian: 'We're not arrogant, we're confident. But it's a fine line ...'Ove Arup created an architectural firm that is as much a belief system as it is a cutting-edge company. Steve Rose meets the men who have carried his vision into the 21st century
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/jun/20/architecture June 2007 - The New Yorker: THE ANTI-GRAVITY MEN: Sir Cecil Balmond and the structural engineers of Arup.
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_owen

And here are two articles profiling the (unbuilt) Dongtan Eco-city (Chongming Island, Shanghai) project I worked on:

April 2007 - Wired: 'Pop-Up Cities: China Builds a Bright Green Metropolis'
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_popup.html

Sep 2006 - The Economist: 'Visions of ecopolis - Technology and the environment: China has ambitious plans to build a model 'eco-city' near Shanghai. How green will it be?' www.economist.com/node/7904126 July 2007 - Popular Science: 'China's green revolution' profiling William McDonough's failed Huangbaiyu Ecovillage in Northeastern China (which I spoke about in the beginning of my presentation at the UN) and Dongtan
www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-07/chinas-green-evolution?nopaging=1

Also, here's a link to the Greater Hanoi master plan from PPJ consortium (Posco E&C, Perkins Eastman and Jina Architects):
http://www.architectmagazine.com/planning/the-grass-isnt-always-greener-a-master-plan-for-h.aspx

www.ashui.com/mag/index.php/english/news/37-news/1311-experts-surprised-by-audacity-of-proposed-hanoi-master-plan.html Do you know about this CSR /ESG investment summit tomorrow? It's pretty expensive:
www.csrinvestingsummit.org