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Author(s) -
Melvin Jeremy
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.222
Subject(s) - antithesis , task (project management) , product (mathematics) , object (grammar) , modular design , process (computing) , production (economics) , engineering , art history , sociology , management , art , computer science , artificial intelligence , literature , mathematics , systems engineering , economics , geometry , macroeconomics , operating system
Abstract The product of a highly customised production process, the racing car is the very antithesis of the modular and the mass produced. Jeremy Melvin reveals how Foster and Partners has designed a headquarters for the McLaren Group ‐ a premier producer and promoter of Formula One cars ‐ that, despite its location on the site of an old farm in Woking, Surrey, is resplendent as a ‘late industrial vision of the object perfectly refined to fulfil its allotted task’.