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Looking down from above, the curves of the Blavatnik School’s staircase create a sense of continuous motion and elegance.
Oxford Open Doors Flickr group photowalk.
The Water Cube in Beijing is officially named Beijing National Aquatics Center (北京国家游泳中心). its colloquial name Water Cube (水立方) stuck, the Water Park now occupying half of the complex is officially named Water Cube Water Park (水立方嬉水乐园).
It was built opposite the Beijing National Stadium for the swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics. After the Olympic Games half of the complex was re-built as a water park that officially opened in August 2010.
The Water Cube was designed and built by an international consortium made up of PTW Architects (Sydney), ARUP international engineering group, CSCEC (China State Construction Engineering Corporation), and CCDI (China Construction Design International) of Shanghai.
Despite its name it is not an actual cube, but a cuboid (178 metres square, 31 metres tall). During the design phase the Chinese partners felt a square was more symbolic to Chinese culture and its relationship to the Bird's Nest stadium, while PTW came up with the idea of covering the building with bubbles, symbolising water.
Contextually the cube with its square footprint symbolises earth while a circle (represented by the nearly circular stadium) represents heaven.
The main structure is a steel space frame, the outer cladding (bubbles) is made from ETFE (Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene), a plastic material. ETFE's special properties are a high corrosion resistance and strength over a wide temperature range. The structure of the cladding is based on the structure formed in the natural pattern of bubbles in a soap lather.
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Explore # 268 on Sunday, 21 June 2009 - the 348th
Also known as "National Aquatics Center", this modern architectural design is one of the most dramatic and exciting venues to host sporting events for the Olympics 2008.
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This place must have been INCREDIBLE.
Original owner: Hop Louie; Second owner: Tommy Lee
Architect: Warren Wong
Sign Design: Ad-Art, Inc. (designer - Bill Clarke)
Interior Decor: Oceanic Arts
Mugs and Bowls: Otagiri
Year Open: 1963.
Photographer: Hubert Miller of Miller Photography
Le Corbusier, also known as the father of modern architecture designed one of the iconic buildings of the 20th century (Unite D'habitation), while living in a tiny wooden cabin in the cost line of Cap Martin in the south of France. He died there in a swimming accident at the age of 77. There is a coastal promenade from Cap Martin to the outskirts of Menton which has been renamed to the Promenade Le Corbusier. His statue was installed on the same promenade somewhere near Menton.
By architect Paolo Portoghesi and engineer Vittorio Gigliotti, 1971-1974. Salerno, Italy.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
By architect Paolo Portoghesi and engineer Vittorio Gigliotti, 1971-1974. Salerno, Italy.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
Also known as Musmeci Bridge. By architect Sergio Musmeci, 1967-1976. Potenza, Italy.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
Suroikaku Aqueduct, Nanzen-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan.
"Suirokaku at Nanzen-ji Temple was built in 1890. It’s a high-rise architectural canal that bridges over the Biwakososui River and is 93.2-meters long by 4-meters wide. For its modern architectural design, it was designated as a historical site in Kyoto in 1983. The bridge reminds us of Roman structures, but was designed by a Japanese, Sakuro Tanabe in the 1890s. Tanabe was only 22 years old at the time. This aqueduct brings water from Lake Biwa to the temple."
By architects Giuseppe Perugini, Raynaldo Perugini and Uga De Plaisant, 1968-1971. Fregene, Italy.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
Designed by architect Aldo Loris Rossi in 1981. Built in 1990 but it has never been finished. Bisaccia, Italy.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
Glasvasen offices located behind Malmö Central Station in Inre Hamnen, a district of Malmö the capital of Scania, in Øresund, Sweden.
The Veidekke company were commissioned by Jernhusen to build Glasvasen, a new office building with unique architecture. The building has one of Malmö's best office locations alongside the Central Station.
It is in the form of an organic sculptural glass vase, designed in a very modern architecture designed by Kanozi Architects.
One of the challenges was to get the relatively small volume of concrete walls around stairwells and elevators to cope with the structural stability of the building. The solution was to mix cast-in-place constructions with Prefab and clamp these together with several tie rods and high requirements for waterproofing in the foundation.
The glass façade hangs in the arch edges outside the building and the fastening is specially developed for the project. The glasses are a combination of different glasses, some with sun protection blinds, and many fins that protrude from the facade. These have LED lighting that shines through the fins. The challenge was also the architect's idea of how the façade should be designed to meet energy requirements and sun protection.
The project included a six-storey office building that contains 6,000 square meters of office space and almost 1,000 square meters of retail space on the street level, as well as a parking garage. The flexible office floor plan can, depending on the tenants' wishes, accommodate a total of up to 600 workplaces. At street level, shops, restaurants, and a café are planned.
Glasvasen is also an environmentally smart building with a focus on low energy consumption and sustainable material selection. It contains several high-tech innovative solutions ensuring environmental certification.
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By architect Paolo Portoghesi and engineer Vittorio Gigliotti. Avezzano, Italy.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
One Kleomenous on the Lycabettus hill of is the first building in the portfolio of Omniview by the architect Dimitrios Tsigos. It is a revolutionary new concept of a living space created to showcase his team’s development capabilities, based on cutting edge design and construction techniques and technologies and it carries the strength, beauty and functionality of high quality.
The choice of Travertino marble was in fact very rational is in hamony with the colour characteristic beige stones which are the main building block for all of lycabettus’s retaining walls. From the beginning of the project, the intensity of the building’s visual relatioship with the Acropolis had marbles on moodboard. Marble is a stone in its self, just one that allows more flexibility in its manipulation. Travertino was a perfect match in colour, but also a material that communicates very intensly its non artificial status due to its porous nature. Moreover, it is a very popular material in the sourrounding areas 70’s modernist style condo developments; in fact its also used inour adjuscent building, the one that tie us to the urban tissue.
By architects G. Kurdiani, V. Aleksi-Meskhishvili and G. Mebuke, 1970. Tbilisi, Georgia.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
Back of postcard reads:
PAUL MASSON
Champagne and Wine Cellars - Saratoga, California
The entrance to the cellars features a unique rotunda with a pool and modern sculpture representing the effervescence of Champagne.
"Good Wine Makes Good Friends"
Paul Masson (1859-1940)
The Pudong skyline with the Garden Bridge over Suzhou Creek in the foreground. The skyline is dominated by the Pearl of the Orient TV Tower (东方明珠电视塔) - short also known as "Pearl Tower" or in Chinese 东方明珠塔. During Chinese New Year the tower's center is illuminated red instead of the usual cooler tones.
The Garden Bridge (Chinese name: 外白渡桥 waibaiduqiao) is the oldest and most famous bridge in downtown Shanghai. Completed in 1907, it crosses Suzhou Creek from the Huangpu to the Hongkou districts. Length 106.7m.
Photo taken from the Zhapu Road Bridge (乍浦路桥, a monument in it's own, built 1927).
For those interested in the rapid growth of Pudong: DvYang has a photo from 1993 in his stream - the Pearl Tower just under construction and no skyscrapers at all.
Photo is SOOTC, no PP. This is only possible for a very short time, when the lights just are turned on, otherwise the People's Hero Memorial (pyramidal tower right of the Garden Bridge) will turn out as an overexposed white blob because it's lit way too bright. It takes about 4 to 5 minutes for the halogen lights to come to full power, so that's the time frame.View on a black background.
Explore #435 on Monday, February 7, 2011
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By architects R. Kakhashvili, F. Quparashvili, M. Chutkerashvili and T. Khufarashvili, 1970-1985. Tskaltubo, Georgia.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
Also known as Musmeci Bridge. By architect Sergio Musmeci, 1967-1976. Potenza, Italy.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
I lost count of the years I last stepped into a library.
This library is pretty cool with the modern architectural design.
By architects Romano Botti and Margherita Marzi Anglani, 1976. Campogalliano, Italy.
Photo: Stefano Perego.