Mushroom House Cincinnati, Oh
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Nord LB building (Hannover, Germany)
The head office of the Norddeutsche Landesbank, built to minimize energy use for cooling, heating and lighting. It features a fantastic main courtyard that is open to the public and contains shops, restaurants and reflecting pools, to name a few.
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Air Force Academy Chapel (Colorado, USA)
Featuring Catholic and Protestant churches, as well as Jewish chapel and an all-faiths room, it was built in 1962, and is made of 100 identical tetrahedrons, each 75 feet (23 m) long, weighing five tons, and enclosed with clear aluminum panels.
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Kunsthaus (Graz, Austria)
Built in a unique "Blob Architecture", this art house is nicknamed by the locals "The Friendly Alien" and is the hub for most contemporary art in Austria.
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Forest Spiral Building (Darmstadt, Germany)
This unique residential building contains over 1000 glass windows, yet none are the same. The same goes for all the door and window handles! All wall edges are rounded as the designer was against using straight lines...
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Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)
This pyramid monstrosity is a hotel with 105 stories. Its construction began in 1987 but was halted in 1992 with the fall of the Soviet Union. Construction resumed in 2008 and the building has yet to have been completed.
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School of Design OCAD Building (Toronto, Canada)
The Sharp Centre for Design was completed in 2004. It is designed as a box, four stories off the ground, which are supported by a series of multi-coloured pillars at different angles
Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, California, USA)
With a parking garage that cost $110 million, the entire project is estimated to have cost upwards of $274 million. The designer, Yasuhisa Toyota, constructed the building to achieve the best possible acoustic condition
Hotel Marques De Riscal (Elciego, Spain)
The building is made of warped titanium, painted pink, gold and silver, made to remind you of the color of wine and the famous Marques De Riscal wine bottles.
I don't think I could live in any of those! I guess I'm more classic or too conservative. I do love seeing how far people's creativity can go though. 6,7 and 8 aren't showing up for me.
ReplyDeleteSome of those are pretty wild, but I like wild.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe some of those are real! Wow.
ReplyDeleteWow, an impressive set of buildings. I think I prefer something more traditional myself :)
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