ABSTRACT
The winning proposal, submitted by PTW Architects and the Arup Australasia engineering group, together with CASEC (China), was an extraordinary feat of the imagination, but not of a purely arbitrary kind. It sought to draw from science a hint of something that might be iconic and emblematic in relation to water itself. Why not bubbles? After all, the guiding spirit of the Arup Corporation, Sir Ove Arup, “in seeking to achieve the perfect union of design and construction,” has been described as “continually throwing out colored bubbles.”
