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signal

English translation: statement

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French term or phrase:signal
English translation:statement
Entered by: Hélène Treloar

14:44 Jul 29, 2016
French to English translations [PRO]
Architecture
French term or phrase: signal
I searched Google and the Proz, architecture glossary without success.

Dans le centre de la ville sont rassemblés les éléments collectifs que l’on doit voir de loin. C’est ce qu’on appelle de « l’architecture signal ».
Hélène Treloar
Local time: 08:30
statement
Explanation:
Statement architecture, as in architectural statement.

"Statement Architecture is very influential and very important, but it represents a very small portion of all architecture built today.

"The vast majority of architecture constructed today is in the background and is often overlooked when considering the contribution of architecture to our urban realities."
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philgoddard
United States
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4statement
philgoddard
4 +3landmark
Didier Fourcot
4architectural characteristics / characteristic architecture
Ria van Eil
3signal architecture
Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)


  

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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
statement


Explanation:
Statement architecture, as in architectural statement.

"Statement Architecture is very influential and very important, but it represents a very small portion of all architecture built today.

"The vast majority of architecture constructed today is in the background and is often overlooked when considering the contribution of architecture to our urban realities."


    Reference: http://www.pinterest.com/oakmasters/statement-architecture/
    Reference: http://dailycommercialnews.com/Home/News/2007/11/Cities-arou...
philgoddard
United States
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 72
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Good solution, Phil!
11 mins
agree  CMFrench: I quite agree with this translation. I might also suggest simply calling it Stand Out Architecture. A bit less elegant, but clearer to the non-specialist if that is the audience here.
19 mins
  -> Yes, that's another possibility. Thanks.
agree  GHANIA Khalifa
1 hr
agree  Daryo: that's the idea
16 hrs
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44 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
architectural characteristics / characteristic architecture


Explanation:
I seems they mean: all the buildings that give a town character, the typical elements that make you recognize a town from far... A church, palace etc.


Ria van Eil
France
Local time: 14:30
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
landmark


Explanation:
Taken from my GPS application, see for example:
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/landmark-architec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark

Didier Fourcot
Local time: 14:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: http://de.phaidon.com/agenda/architecture/articles/2016/janu...
15 hrs
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
17 hrs
agree  Lisa Jane
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signal architecture


Explanation:
Venu de l'allemand ''signalarchitekture'' peut-être: Neubau oder zumindest ein bauliche Erweiterung des Wien Museums für die nächste Legislaturperiode des Wiener Landtags angekündigt. Museumsdirektor Wolfgang Kos (vgl. Interview im Standard, 3. 9.) ist begeistert und wünscht sich "Signalarchitektur" mit "Landmark-Charakter" -

https://www.modul.ac.at/uploads/files/.../Thesis-2011-Wachlo...
Evolved Communication Model for Interactive Media Façades. 75. 8.3. ..... needs. The efforts made here are referred to as the so called “signal architecture”.
At a first glance, it seems that the media façade originates from classical signal
architecture. Signal architecture mainly aims to (Schediwy, 2009)
 attract the public audience, even from a larger distance
 generate a landmark, which is easy to distinguish from the surrounding area
 foster a certain identity
 Communicate/narrate certain intrinsic functionalities


fields.eca.ac.uk/deaua/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/chapter8.pdf
by business, and the open differentiation of urban space in the city as a whole2 – and it ... Skateboarding counters signal architecture with a body-centric and ...

Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)
Local time: 08:30
Native speaker of: French
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