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<\/p>\nHarris said, as well as drawings, the practice made scale models of every project, employing dozens of model makers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving small models of buildings, 3D, things that you can see, look around, and touch, is the greater way of understanding how a building works. It is difficult when you go out in the city and see it from a distance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHaving it as this scale, we find that children absolutely love coming to exhibitions. They\u2019re fascinated. It is like a doll\u2019s house.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Muir Livingstone, a partner with Foster + Partners in Sydney, inspects a scale model of Stanstead Airport terminal building designed by the practice. It opened in 1991 and turned the old design of terminals upside down. Credit: Dylan Coker<\/p>\n
Muir Livingstone, a partner with the practice based in Sydney, said while most clients could read the plans, a scale model was \u201cvery, very powerful scale representation of what they were buying\u201d.<\/p>\n
On the scale model of the Gherkin, Livingstone pointed out that the darker glass on the building\u2019s exterior tracked the atrium that wound around the building from top to bottom in a spiral illustrating the diagrid.<\/p>\n
The exhibition also includes a model of the plans for Manchester United\u2019s $4 billion New Trafford Stadium, which is part of a 260-acre regeneration project, the soon-to-open Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi, and Berlin\u2019s Reichstag German parliament.<\/p>\n
A model of Stansted Airport terminal reveals a light-filled design that is common these days, but was the first of its kind, turning conventional airport design upside down. Harris said, instead of putting the services in the roof, it put them under the floor.<\/p>\n
For Maryanne Yosef, now finishing the last weeks of her masters of architecture at Western Sydney University, the exhibition is a chance to see how professionals work, compared with the much smaller scale models shown at university exhibitions.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is employing a dozen young architecture students, including Yosef, and Tristan Ponomban, who is studying a masters of architecture at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n
Ponomban said Foster\u2019s interest in drawing was similar to his own.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the Pompidou Centre in Paris dedicated 2200 square metres to Foster\u2019s work, including his sketchbooks and models, hosting a retrospective of more than 60 years of work by the architect, who cycles daily.<\/p>\n
Curator Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Migayrou said it was interesting how so many people who weren\u2019t interested in architecture were interested in drawings of architecture. \u201cPeople stayed a long, long time, studying the drawings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Civic Vision will run from October 25 until December 21 at Sydney\u2019s Parkline Place, opening to the public daily from 9am to 6pm.<\/p>\n