Jumat, 02 September 2011

The world's most brilliant new buildings

The world's most brilliant new buildings
We are used to gasping at past architectural marvels when we travel but why not sneak a peek at the very latest and greatest feats of building worldwide?
The world's most brilliant new buildings. It's certainly a stylish way to travel: dropping in on the sexiest new buildings in whatever city or place you happen to be visiting. Each year the World Architecture Festival awards highlight the best and boldest new constructions on the planet. But it's not just the monumental public projects that are worth seeing, the festival says; what about a reindeer-viewing pavilion in Norway that harmonises so well with the landscape it's virtually invisible? A house that makes its own utensils with 3D printing? Or a hotel whose rooms are inserted into the very cracks and fissures of a desert landscape?

Location: Santorini-Imerovigli, Greece
Architects: Divercity


Floors in this new hotel are made of cement, in keeping with the earthy tones of aspa, the compact volcanic Santorini soil formed from ash, lava and pumice stone. Together with the black and red stones in the walls they form a dialogue with the island's unique geological strata.
Location: Moscow, Russia
Architects: Ithaka Architecture & Design


Described as an "optical dystopia", this building, with its large glass wall and white exterior, is designed to be an optical illusion.
Location: Paris, France
Architects: Odile Decq Benoît Cornette Architects and Urban Planners
Behind the columns of the east facade of the Opéra Garnier, the restaurant is located where horse-drawn carriages used to drop off ticketholders arriving for a performance. Creating a new space in the building meant following strict guidelines dictating that it could be removed completely at some point without damaging the existing historical structure. The designers of the restaurant were not allowed to touch any of the walls, pillars or ceiling: accordingly, the design is a veil of undulating glass sliding between each pillar and held in place by a single strip of steel running along the arched curve of the building.
Location: Chiba-ken, Japan
Architects: Nikken Sekkei


A private museum built to exhibit and preserve the collection of around 300 ultra-realist paintings collected by the industrialist Masao Hoki. Layers of long galleries are stacked on top of one another, some appearing to float in space.
Location: Kolkata, India
Architects: ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism


A high-rise residential development consisting of 80 units, bordered by wetlands, in one of India's most populous cities.
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architects: IaaC


A highly energy-efficient housing prototype that produces three times more energy than it consumes. It uses the same hi-tech method deployed in its own construction - so-called 3D printing - to fashion its own domestic tools.
Location: Murcia, Spain
Architects: Sanjay Puri


Framing a gently undulating landscape with a view of the ocean in the distance, this small chapel is perched at a height of 90 metres on a steeply sloping hill. Visitors approach the chapel from a circuitous road leading up to the hill. As they enter the structure, a doorway widens into a cavernous space created with a large cantilevered concrete roof that folds up from one side. The cross sits on the edge of a rectilinear water pool with an infinity edge merging with the ocean in the distance.
Location: Dovrefjell national park, Norway
Architects: Ramboll


The raw steel frame and weathered wooden planks of this pavilion were designed to blend in with the mountainous landscape and aid viewing of the park's wild creatures.
Location: West Bengal, India
Architects: Abin Design Studio


A building housing a management institute whose coloured laminate, with its discontinuous pattern, is meant to symbolise the unpredictable nature of the sky as well as the vibrancy of youth.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Architects: Miguel Arruda Arquitectos Associados


Made from cork, this design is based on the repetition of a root-like structure. The inhabitable sculpture recreats and enlarges a chromed iron structure from 1968.
Location: Wadi Rum Desert, Jordan
Architects: Oppenheim Architecture and Design


The Wadi Rum Desert Lodge is designed to allow guests to fully appreciate the surrounding desert landscape. Residences, rooms and hotel amenities are built into the cliffs and the other natural faults and fissures of the land. Many of the surfaces and building materials are left raw and accented only by simple materials. blurring the boundaries between what is natural and manmade.
Location: Bursa, Turkey
Architects: GAD


A high-rise luxury residential project under construction in one of the largest and most developed cities in Turkey. A restaurant at the top of the building under a helipad provides a 360-degree view of the surrounds. Composite wood louvers are used for the balconies, to make the exterior feel warmer and to provide an overall softer visual effect.
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Architects: Emre Arolat Architects


This building aims to address the fundamental issues of designing a mosque by distancing itself from the current architectural discussions based on form and focusing solely on what the architects call "the essence of religious space". The building blends in almost completely with the surrounding topography; the outside world is left behind as one moves through the landscape, down the hill and between the walls to enter the mosque. Inside, the simple, cave-like space is intended as a dramatic and awe inspiring place to pray and be alone with God.
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Architects: Aedas


Located near the Jilong River, the design for the Taipei Nangang Office Tower draws inspiration from the shape of the river pebbles to attempt to convey ideas of softness and elegance, as well as strength and character.
Location: Boden, Sweden
Architects: Tham & Videgard Hansson


This new hotel in the far north of Sweden, close to the Arctic circle, is made from lightweight aluminium hung around a tree trunk and clad in mirrored glass to reflect the surroundings and the sky, creating a camouflaged refuge for two people.

Location: Batumi, Georgia
Architects: Henning Larsen


Inspired by the wave-shaped pebbles of Batumi beach, this proposed Black Sea city's aquarium is meant to resemble a rock formation visible from land and sea. Four self-supporting exhibition areas will each represent a unique marine biotype.

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