Category: Architecture
Dubai Lily Pad Floating City
| September 1, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Water CityBy now, most of us have heard about the Island Cities being built in Dubai , but Inhabitat has just done a feature on a new concept by artist Vincent Callebaut for a self-sufficient floating city that will never have to face a problem about finding land to build on.
Ackerberg House
| September 1, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Influenced by the traditional style of courtyards typical of Southern California, this house is located among the mountains extending alongside the coastal highway and the beach which borders the Pacific Ocean. The site chosen for the construction of the building consists of three flat areas and the adjacent plots, facing Malibu Beach. Incoming search terms:Ackerberg…
Tenerife Opera House
| May 8, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Sweeping over the top of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava‘s spectacular new Opera House in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, a gigantic concrete wave shelters the cone-shaped auditorium complex. But this wave is more than a wave: it is a thumb in the eye of the modernist style that dominated 20th century architecture. Led by the…
Underwater Seascrapers of the Future
| March 12, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Throughout history, through his need for civilization, man has created buildings that consume resources. The skyscraper is the epitome of this voracious consumption, its highly dense grouping of activities ie work, play, rest etc. has become an ominous harbingers of our ecologically bleak future. As a reaction to the modern skyscrapers and its dilemmas the…
Mercedes-Benz Museum
| February 6, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
The Mercedes-Benz Museum, with 450,000 visitors a year, is located next to highway B14 into Stuttgart. The 16,500 square meters lounge, and the surrounding landscape. UN Studio has long been refining its work to create an architectural language that speaks equally of its reverence for history, Baroque, and Modernism and of its passion for new…
Bosphorus Bridge – Bogazici Koprusu
| February 5, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Ever since antiquity, men’s minds have been exercised by the idea of bridging the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, the straits connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean. The dream was to create a permanent link between the Occident and the Orient. The pontoon bridge built across the Bosphorus in 513…
Burj Qatar – Doha
| January 29, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Competition between the various Gulf States and the wish to acquire prestige has led to a myriad of projects in the region by the most renowned international architects, including Jean Nouvel, who has designed both the Louvre Museum in Ebu Dhabi and an office tower in Doha, Qatar. Both are part of a much larger…
Canna Road Residence by Ray Kappe
| January 27, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Recently emerging from a contemporary restoration, this house in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles was originally designed by Ray Kappe in the late 1960s. Incoming search terms:california modern homeskimberli meyer photographymichael lafetra mother carol
Javier Senosiain – Organic Architecture
| January 2, 2010 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
Javier Senosiain is a Mexican architect who has a peculiar taste to create numerous marvels in different patterns. This particular shell house aptly named “Nautilus House” was given shape in 2006 at a place called Naucalpan in Mexico. Being an exceptional one directly from the imagination of its architect, it naturally had to undergo enough…
Gut Garkau Farm Complex
| December 21, 2008 | Posted by admin under Architecture |
This group of farm buildings is key in the genesis of modern architecture. Hugo Haring worked closed with Hans Scharoun, a proponent of an organic Modernism whose portfolio includes public buildings such as the Berlin Philharmonic. Haring’s oeuvre is more considered, but he had few occasions to demonstrate his principles. Incoming search terms:gut garkaugarkauhugo haring
