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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
An amazing building every day!
Awesome architecture and design
Great buildings HERE!
China Central Television Headquarters
234 m
floor area 389,079 m2
75 elevators
Walt Disney Concert Hall
it seats 2,265 people
amazing shape design
Sagrada Familia working on it since 1882
more than 40 years working on project
170 m height
Burj Khalifa 828 m - tallest in the world
$ 1.4 billion
24.348 windows
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Architecture of the future
I will show you some images to understand better the architecture of the future.
One of the greatest architects who have similar concepts about the architecture of the future is Zaha Hadid. More information about her and her works here and some images here. Impressive project: Chanel Mobile Art
The architecture of the future will be probably the most imprssive of all times. It will change our lives and our opinions about the world.
Look how much change from Stonehenge to date and beyond. Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids are incredible and still a mystery. But look at this photos and imagine a structure like this in you city or in your country. It is amazing !
Spiral towers and tangled beams?
Beautiful facades, windows, ideas and new construction materials?
A new world?
A better world?
Yes this is the way how I see the archtecture of the future. Amazing projects are waiting to be constructed.
Just think at nice house where you want to live, or at park where you walk, at a school, or company where you work, maybe the church where you go to pray which is designed as what you want. All necessary things, all functions for the highest level of living.
Architecture of the future will be awesome! Becoming an architect and admire how buildings are "growing" behind your work will be thw most incredible thing!
Endless possibilities !
No limits !
Imagine, draw, create !
Even the sky will NOT be the limit !
Oscar Niemeyer
I wrote this page in honor of one of the world's greatest architects, Oscar Niemeyer. Though he died on 5 December 2012 do not forget what he has achieved for us and especially for the city of Brasilia.
At the age of 104 years the great architect dies. He had only 10 days to reach the amazing age of 105 years. He was the most important architect of Brazil. Among the many works of his include the Metropolitan Cathedral of Brasilia built in 1970. The Cathedral of Brasilia, officially the Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady Aparecida (Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida), dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Aparecida, proclaimed by the Church as Queen and Patroness of Brazil, is an artwork.
This concrete-framed hyperboloid structure, appears With its glass roof to be Reaching up, open, to heaven. Most of the cathedral is Below ground, with only the 70-meter (230 ft) diameter 42-meter (138 ft) roof of the cathedral, the ovoid roof of the Baptistry, and the bell tower visible above ground. The shape of the roof is based in the hyperboloid of revolution with asymmetric sections. The hyperboloid structure consists of 16 concrete columns identical Assembled on site. These columns, Having hyperbolic section and weighing 90 tonnes (99 tons), represented two hands moving upwards to heaven.
The most impressive project of him was the redesigning and reconstruction of the whole city of Brasilia. Now this is the city plan of Brasilia:
More information about Oscar Niemeyer and his projects here: http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/1988-niemeyer
The great architect talking about his life:
"A vida é um sopro" - "Life is a blast"
Modern architecture
Le Corbusier - "The parent of modern architecture"
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (French: [lə kɔʁbyzje]; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India and America.He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities.Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, "Lecorbésier."He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal and AIA Gold Medal in 1961.
Five points of architecture
It was Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1929–1931) that most succinctly summed up his five points of architecture that he had elucidated in the journal L'Esprit Nouveau and his book Vers une architecture, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s. First, Le Corbusier lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground, supporting it by pilotis – reinforced concrete stilts. These pilotis, in providing the structural support for the house, allowed him to elucidate his next two points: a free façade, meaning non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished, and an open floor plan, meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls. The second floor of the Villa Savoye includes long strips of ribbon windows that allow unencumbered views of the large surrounding yard, and which constitute the fourth point of his system. The fifth point was the roof garden to compensate for the green area consumed by the building and replacing it on the roof. A ramp rising from ground level to the third floor roof terrace allows for an architectural promenade through the structure. The white tubular railing recalls the industrial "ocean-liner" aesthetic that Le Corbusier much admired. As if to put an exclamation mark after Le Corbusier's homage to modern industry, the driveway around the ground floor, with its semicircular path, measures the exact turning radius of a 1927 Citroën automobile.
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