Posts for 'Modern Architectures' Category

Time flows on without any stop. "The old order changeth, yielding place to new." The great cities like Mohenjo-Daro, Indraprastha, Babylon, and the great architectural building like the Pentagon (the world's largest office building by floor area), World Trade Centre (the twin 110-story towers), are all gone, and new cities and architecture are growing up in their stead. With the passing of time, the concept and patterns of architectural industry is rapidly changing. Every era has its own style and ideology which are reflected onto the architecture developed and designed in that era. When the world moved into the 21st century, architecture industry reached new heights. With dramatic innovations in engineering and technology, the modern era is witnessing growing numbers of skyscrapers and wonderful architectures around the world. Architectural Evangelist discovers seven iconic modern architectures which beguile tourists around the world.

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Meant for a family house back yard and as a relaxing space in the suburbs, the Polyhedron Habitable project aimed at designing a small park or opened area as an independent space for reading, playing, etc. Manuel Villa designed this Polyhedron Habitable in the back yard of a suburban family house in Bogota, Colombia.

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Already making the rounds and stirring up some noise is one of Roger Ebert's latest posts for the Sun Times, "The Image of a Man You Do Not See," which if you're either a Chicago architecture or Louis Sullivan buff, you'll recognize as a quote from the famous architect (in full, as Ebert prints it: "Every building you see is the image of a man you do not see."). As you've guessed, the post is about architecture.

In between history lessons, from his own to Chicago's great buildings and the architects who designed them, Ebert branches out a bit to wonder if/complain that Mies van der Rohe giving popular rise to modernism in the US led to "an architecture that is totalitarian in its severe economy." He appreciates van der Rohe (and even Frank Gehry!), but mourns the loss of ornamentation, the kind Sullivan earned his legacy for.

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This modern office architecture is located in the Diplomatic Quarters in Riyadh. The building is the new headquarter of the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat), an organisation built on a vision of connecting the Arab community to itself and the world with its motto “our world, your world”.

The design of this outstanding building was the subject of an international competition commissioned by the Arriyadh Development Authority in 2008. heneghan.peng.architects with Buro Happold engineers won the competition and were subsequently appointed in March 2009.

It’s Architecture Day here at Infrastructurist. Vanity Fair asked 52 experts to choose the five most important buildings created since 1980, they named a staggering 132 different structures. You can find the top 21, in order of popularity, here. And to see the complete results of the survey DiggSubmi.

Refreshingly, the Top 21 list isn’t entirely dominated by Frank Gehry (though he did nab the top spot with his epic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, pictured above). There’s also a good showing by Sir Norman Foster, whose HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong and Millau Viaduct in France also made the cut. And Rem Koolhaas came in with three buildings: the Seattle Central Library, the legendary CCTV Building in Beijing, and the Casa da Musica in Portugal.

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MILSONS Point has some of the best designed buildings in NSW. The Harry Seidler and Associates offices and.

The Point apartments both took out gongs at the state’s most prestigious public architecture awards last month.

The five-storey office tower at 2 Glenn St, designed by Harry Seidler and Associates, won the 25 Year Award for Enduring Architecture.

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Vanity Fair asked the world's leading architects, critics, and deans of architecture schools two questions: what are the five most important buildings, bridges, or monuments constructed since 1980, and what is the greatest work of architecture thus far in the 21st century.

52 experts, including 11 Pritzker Prize winners, has provided a clear answer: Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But parsing the votes, which also anointed Renzo Piano's Menil Collection, Peter Zumthor's Thermal Baths, and Sir Norman Foster's HSBC Building, among other significant structures, Matt Tyrnauer examines the complex legacy of Modernism and the impact of its greatest renegade.

Joint Venture Architects Woods Bagot and NHArchitecture's Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) has been honoured with four accolades.

At the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Victoria Architecture Awards, in addition to receiving the prestigious Victorian Architecture Medal as a "unique project which reveals a number of design ideas that make it a leading project in contemporary world architecture."

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Milwaukee Art Museum. 2001. The first project in the U.S. by the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava, best known for his beautiful bridges, was to expand the museum originally designed by Eero Saarinen. Calatrava's new galleries inside were upstaged by his extravagant design outside for a movable winglike brise-soleil, or sunscreen, with a potential span wider than a 747-400's.