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Visions of architecture
"I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. " Alexander Jackson Davis"
Friday, June 17, 2011
Floating Home
Trilobis 65 is a semi-submerged:Reaching 20 metres in length designed by Giancarlo Zema for habitation by six people at sea. It is ideal for living in bays, atolls and maritime parks. The main aim of the project is to allow anyone to live in a unique environment through a self sufficient, non-polluting dwelling cell in unison with their ocean surroundings.Trilobis 65 has been designed on four separate levels connected by a spiraling staircase.The...
Monday, June 13, 2011
urban designing of streets & squares
INTRODUCTION• Streets and Squares that make up the public face of towns and cities. It also emphasizes on the meanings and the roles of these elements played in the urban design, the ways they are arranged, designed and detailed is the subject matter.• Urban design is at the interface between architecture and planning, but is quite distinct from both disciplines.• In short, planning can be defined as the process by which resources are distributed....
Sunday, June 12, 2011
FUSION-POLIS
Ken Yeang is an ecologist, author and a respected architect. He is best known for his “bioclimatic skyscrapers,” environmentally conscious high-rise buildings. Being an ecologist is essential, he believes, to his work as an architect because “the ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world.” Ken Yeang endeavors to connect the human built environment more closely to nature.Integration Philosophies:Physical- how a building...
Friday, June 10, 2011
SILLYPAD UNDERWATER
This project is designed for the year 2100, and is called 'The Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees', which is definitely a present and realistic danger in architecture."this silly pad is a real amphibian half aquatic and half terrestrial city, which able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting the biodiversity of this world to develop its fauna and flora around a central lagoon of soft water collecting and purifying the rain waters efficiently....
Thursday, June 2, 2011
CCTV HeadQuarters - Rem Koolhaas
This Building is under construction in Beijing, and marks the centerpiece of what hopes to be a 300 tower central business district in Beijing. Rather than go into details, I’ll distill why this design is so important: It marks one of the first buildings that aim to defy gravity without overtly proclaiming it. In effect, it’s one of the first buildings that is a physical manifestation of a video game building (which can obviously be any...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Zaha Hadid’s Architecture Foundation HQ
Detailed plans submitted to Southwark Council for consideration outline the design for the new building, situated on the corner of Southwark Street and Great Guildford Street.Famed for her buildings including the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, US and the BMW building in Leipzig, Germany, the Architecture Foundation will be the Pritzker Prize winner's first public building to be built in the capital.Scheduled to open in autumn...
Zaha Hadid Update
The world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid, is planning the Regium Waterfront cultural building in the city of Reggio Calabria.Zaha presents one and fluid style of radial symmetry lines, in which you will place the Museum of the history of the Mediterranean and a performing arts center. The buildings are surrounded by the sea, Sicily and the Sicilian coast will be visible.Canada Pharmacybuildings were inspired by the organic shape of the star, the radial...
