From Architecture To Science Fiction – 93 Buildings
New trends emerge in architecture. Old styles are left behind and architects now go for the ultra-modern look, the futuristic style of buildings. They shouldn’t be blamed for this, don’t get me wrong, I actually admire this attitude. It’s bold and it must be appreciates because they’re looking ahead in the future and setting some landmarks for the young architects that will come. For us, the humble mortals, they’re offering a great spectacle of shapes and colors, leaving us the opportunity to simply gaze at their brilliant work.
You know how in the 90′s, many great architects were gathered in Netherlands to rejuvenate the city with modern buildings? Well, it’s time for Dubai and Beijing to collect all the architects with vision. They have an intelligent strategy of investing in modern buildings in order to attract tourists and also prepare themselves for the future. Fortunate for them, they have a lot of space to build new architectural wonders, unlike European cities were there isn’t place to build even a small boutique.
You may have seen some of these buildings, they’re already classics among the fans of conceptual architecture, but I bet that there are some of them that you will see for the first time. There are few of them which still are in the project faze, some of them are in the building process and most of them, of course, are already built.
ACME UN Memorial
Agora Theatre – Lelystad, Netherlands
Air Force Academy Chapel – Colorado, USA
Apeiron Hotel – Dubai, UAE
Art School – Singapore
Atomium – Brussels, Belgium
Azadi Tower – Tehran, Iran
Baj Pomorski Theatre – Torun, Poland
Bank Office – Hannover, Germany
Bicentennial Conservatory – Adelaide, Australia
BMW – Munich, Germany
Burj Al Arab – Dubai, UAE
Bus Station – Casar, Spain
CCTV Headquarters – Beijing, China
Centre Pompidou-Metz Museum – Metz, France
City Tower – Cheongna,
Commercial Complex – New Orleans, USA
Conrad Hotel – Beijing, China
Cooper Union – New York, USA
Coop Himmelb(l)au High School – Los Angeles, USA
Crooked House – Sopot, Poland
Cybertecture Egg – Mumbai, India
Dancing Building – Prague, Czech Republic
Danish Pavilion – Shanghai, China
Design Museum – Holon, Israel
Promenade Hotel – Dubai, UAE
Technosphere – Dubai, UAE
Dubai Towers – Dubai, UAE
Dynamic Tower – Dubai, UAE
Eden Project – Cornwall, UK
Esplanade Theatres – Singapore
Experience Music Project – Seattle, USA
Frame Hotel – Dubai, UAE
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum – Minneapolis, USA
Futuristic Building – China
Futuroscope – Poitiers, France
Galaxy Soho – Beijing, China
Great Arch of Defense – Paris, France
Guggenheim Museum – Bilbao, Spain
Hotel Marques De Riscal – Elciego, Spain
Hotel Unique – Sao Paolo, Brasil
House – Bairgowrie, Australia
IAC Building – New York, USA
Jack Colker Union 96 Station – Beverly Hills, USA
John Curtin School of Medical Research – Canberra City, Australia
Kansas City Public Library – Missouri, USA
Kunsthaus – Graz, Austria
Lilypad
MARTa Herford – Herford, Germany
Olympic Stadium – Montreal, Canada
Monument des Maryrs – Algiers, Algeria
Museum of Contemporary Art – Nice, France
Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art – Dubai, UAE
National Library – Minsk, Belarus
National Stadium Proposal – Beijing, China
Longaberger Headquarters – Newark, USA
New Poly Plaza – Beijing, China
Nova University – Lisbon, Portugal
Office/Hotel Building – Beijing, China
Pabellon de Aragon – Zaragoza, Spain
Palm Jebel Ali – Dubai, UAE
Park Gate – Dubai, UAE
Parkview – Beijing, China
Peak Tower – Hong Kong
National Performing Arts Center – Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Philharmonie – Luxembourg
Porsche Museum – Stuttgart, Germany
Prestige Mall – Istanbul, Turkey
Putrajaya Waterfront – Putrajaya, Malaysia
Raffles – Dubai, UAE
Museum of Contemporary Arts – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Romanian Pavilion – Shanghai, China
Royal Ontario Museum – Ontario, Canada
Russian Pavilion – Shanghai, China
Saudi Arabian Pavilion – Shanghai, China
Central Library – Seattle, USA
Signature Towers – Dubai, UAE
Solar Furnace – Odeillo, France
Solar Powered Volcano Tower
Spaceport – Singapore
Swiss Pavilion – Shanghai, China
Opera House – Sydney, Australia
Television Cultural Center – Beijing, China
Tempe Municipal Building – Arizona, USA
The Opus – Dubai, UAE
The Oval Tower – Dubai, UAE
Turning Torso – Malmo, Sweden
UCSD Geisel Library – San Diego, USA
UK Pavilion – Shanghai, China
Valluvar Kottam – Chennai, India
Walt Disney Concert Hall – Los Angeles, USA
Oceanic Pavilion – Yeosu, South Korea
Ziggurat – Dubai, UAE
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May 20th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Some fantastic buildings and concept designs. Some not so practicalbut cool in concept.
June 1st, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Ummm, the Eden Project is located in Cornwall, UK, not in Dubai, UAE as stated above.
June 1st, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Solved. Thanks.
February 11th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Why not the Valaencia project by Calatrava? http://www.calatrava.com/#/Selected works/Architecture/Valencia 1?mode=english y the way:
CCTV is double & real photo’s are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/kvadrosuslik/4341416963/ or http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=smama21&logNo=70089946058
February 11th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
I know about those buildings and they’re already on a list for a second article about strange but wonderful buildings. I decided to stop at the 93rd building in the first article because there were simply too much pictures in one page and the load time would be really big and that’s annoying for the visitors.
January 20th, 2012 at 12:04 am
Lloyd Wright’s 1950′s period Wayfarer’s Chapel would have made a nice inclusion as a transition piece into this era that merges the local environment into the architectural structures.