Titlebook: Colour Is Communication; Selected Projects fo Per Arnoldi Book 2007Latest edition Birkhäuser Basel 2007 Bauten.Farbintervention.Foster+Part

airborne

indemnify

Reichstag Berlin, 1999The German Reichstag building in Berlin unfolds as a dramatically concentrated history of modern Germany.

Mhc-Molecule

World Port Center Rotterdam, 2001Behind the receptionists in the large bright foyer at the bottom of the World Port Centre’s 48-storey round, sparkling tower on the Wilhelmina Pier in Rotterdam’s enormous harbour stands a solid reinforced glass plate.

Slit-Lamp

The Alexander Fleming Building’see it as a big canvas,’ was Norman’s invitation to do the colour scheme of the five-storey back wall of the Alexander Fleming Building in 1994.

Intact

Oratory

Faculty Building 2004Within a backyard, hidden and forgotten, surrounded by sad dying trees and a cramped car park in the middle of Imperial College’s green and friendly campus, there was room.

Derogate

Tanaka Business School 2004The building of the extension of the Tanaka Business School along Exhibition Road created at the same time a main entrance for Imperial College as a whole.

arbiter

curettage

HM Treasury London, 2002In a large generous sweeping (and slightly moving) gesture, a rainbow of suspended banners and a large wall-piece fill the now covered inner courtyards of the rebuilt HM Treasury in London. The system is quite simple: the banners hang in the ever-changing light five at a time.

Directed

Trafalgar Square (World Squares for All) Cafe and Public Toilets London, 2003The generous and radical reorganisation of Trafalgar Square as the first part of the larger World Squares project created a sunny, peaceful, safe pedestrian area from the steps of the National Gallery down to Nelson and his lions.