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Architect: Gert Wingårdh
Built in: 2010-2011
Client: Chalmersfastigheter
A new building for innovation and entrepreneurship, called Kuggen, is built on Lindholmsplatsen in Gothenburg. Designed by architect Gert Wingårdh, the five-storey building is round and reminiscent of a sprocket. Construction started in October 2010 and was finished in March 2011.
Kuggen has already won awards. The international real estate summit MIPIM arranged annually in Cannes, gave Kuggen an award in the Sustainable Buildings class, and the project was selected as one of two out of 300 to receive Future Projects Awards.
Kuggen was also one of the nominated contestants in the World Architecture Festival, Barcelona, in the category "Learning".
On the second floor there is a walkway to the buildings on Lindholmspiren in one direction and to the Jupiter building on Campus Lindholmen in the other. The building grows outward the higher you go, and will house facilities for business and research.
Kurilpa Bridge, a footbridge over the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Queensland.
The Kurilpa Bridge (originally known as the Tank Street Bridge) is a A$63 million pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The bridge connects Kurilpa Point in South Brisbane to Tank Street in the Brisbane central business district. In 2011, the bridge was judged World Transport Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival.
This huge modern mosque was completed in 1993 in Casablanca was designed by Michael Pinseau and constructed by Moroccan artisans. It can accommodate 25000 people inside and another 80000 outside in its carefully designed grounds. By the sea it is a striking addition to world architecture.
The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex bequeathed by Greek Antiquity to the world. In the second half of the fifth century bc, Athens, following the victory against the Persians and the establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world. In the age that followed, as thought and art flourished, an exceptional group of artists put into effect the ambitious plans of Athenian statesman Pericles and, under the inspired guidance of the sculptor Pheidias, transformed the rocky hill into a unique monument of thought and the arts. The most important monuments were built during that time: the Parthenon, built by Ictinus, the Erechtheon, the Propylaea, the monumental entrance to the Acropolis, designed by Mnesicles and the small temple Athena Nike.
At the first lights on the famous Willemsbrug a kind of long exposure was made, always a rewarding subject in Rotterdam...and a ship just passed the water.....
Frank Owen Gehry, CC is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions and many customers seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction. His works were by far the most often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of "paper architecture" – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years.
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R. KELLY
OCTOBER 14-15
Chicago, IL
October 15th, 2015
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Entry for LEGO Modern Home Design Competition hosted by Dwell and Pacific Standard Time
By Ken Parel-Sewell at One World Architecture
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Entry for LEGO Modern Home Design Competition hosted by Dwell and Pacific Standard Time
By Ken Parel-Sewell at One World Architecture
More about Villa Hillcrest:
new.dwell.com/contests/lego-modern-home-design-competitio...
Check out our real buildings at:
Thanks for viewing!
This was taken last Saturday during a visit to Arundel Festival and Art Trail. “There but not there” is a nationwide event lasting to Armistice Day in November in commemoration of the end of the 1st World War. The usual figures are of a 6ft tall transparent silhouette outlined in black which stand with their head bowed, rifle in hand, and with a poppy on the chest. Another version is of a seated silhouette with no outline. There are 93 in the Cathedral and another Church representing the 93 lost from the town. Arundel is a small historic town with a population now of just 3200.
There were 2 standing Silhouettes with black outlines each side of the start of the Aisle. The transparent seated silhouettes were quite hard to photograph but I found this viewpoint worked much better.
The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 wide angle zoom at 12mm. 3 images for HDR. The image was first processed with Photomatix 6 using Contrast Optimizer for a natural look. During the HDR processing the area with the people was outlined as an area with movement and the 0EV image chosen for the software to use for that area. Then the minus EV image was copied in as a new layer with a mask to bring highlights down. I edited a lot with Topaz using Topaz Denose and then Topaz Clarity for more detail. In Photoshop brightness adjustment layers were used with masks to apply to different areas. Filter Lens Correction was used to straighten verticals
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Fullerton Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
July 5th, 2016
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This landmark venue, designed as an opera house in 1892, hosts concerts by well-known musical acts.
1807 S Allport St
Chicago, IL
February 16th, 2016
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Hello dears,
I really strive for making a home what it can become, first of all, a home isn't complete without its the owner and I never really had a home. If you have followed me for a while, on social media platforms besides Flickr, I have always sighed for not having a home yet as an Interior Designer, you'd think I would. With the help of a creator, I was able to put some inspirational designs together which was then compiled into a house, by me adding my personal touches I was able to complete the home. It's a small single bedroom, 2 baths, living and kitchen space, perfect for myself since I don't live with anyone else but I. My last actual home was the Victorian desert house which I built myself out of prims, which I'll be selling soon, I think.. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my photos of my home. The home will also be located on a friends community where I'll be living, I suppose what's great about Second Life is you can take your home pretty much anywhere possible.
Le pont de Wandre relie, en enjambant la Meuse et le canal Albert, Herstal à Liège. Conçu par le bureau d’études René Greisch, il remplace deux ponts indépendants – un sur chaque voie d’eau – devenus obsolètes suite à la mise au gabarit du canal Albert, dont la largeur est passée de 35 à 85 m. Cet ouvrage, inauguré en 1989, vaudra une distinction au bureau qui l’a imaginé, outre une indéniable reconnaissance internationale.
Long de 524 m, le pont est un ouvrage haubané à pylône central unique d’une hauteur de 102 m, réalisé en béton armé et précontraint. Les travées principales ont une portée de 168 m (Meuse) et 144 m (canal Albert) et sont suspendues au pylône en Y renversé par 19 haubans (entre 73 et 175 m de longueur espacés tous les 6 m au niveau du tablier). La travée d’approche de la rive gauche est désolidarisée du reste et courbe afin de palier d’éventuels tassements dus à la présence d’anciens puits de mine.
La mise en œuvre adoptée a maintenu l’utilisation continue des axes routiers et fluviaux, si bien qu’une grande partie du tablier a été réalisée sur la rive gauche et mise en position par poussage, une technique inédite pour les ponts haubanés. Cette première architecturale mondiale est adéquatement rehaussée par un éclairage de nuit mis en place dès la conception.
Depuis 1993, le pont de Wandre est classé monument du patrimoine historique majeur de Belgique.
The Wandre bridge links, by spanning the Meuse and the Albert canal, Herstal to Liège. Designed by the René Greisch design office, it replaces two independent bridges - one on each waterway - which had become obsolete following the upgrading of the Albert Canal, whose width was reduced from 35 to 85 m. This work, inaugurated in 1989, will be worth a distinction to the office which imagined it, in addition to an undeniable international recognition.
The 524 m long bridge is a cable-stayed structure with a single central pylon, 102 m high, made of reinforced and prestressed concrete. The main spans have a span of 168 m (Meuse) and 144 m (Albert canal) and are suspended from the Y pylon overturned by 19 stay cables (between 73 and 175 m in length spaced every 6 m at the level of the deck). The approach span to the left bank is separated from the rest and curved to compensate for any settlements due to the presence of old mine shafts.
The implementation adopted maintained the continuous use of the road and river axes, so much so that a large part of the deck was carried out on the left bank and put into position by pushing, a new technique for cable-stayed bridges. This world architectural first is adequately enhanced by night lighting implemented from the design stage.
Since 1993, the Wandre bridge has been classified as a major historical heritage monument in Belgium.
Chicago, IL
June 5th, 2015
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Bizkaia/Pays Basque/Spain (The Guggenheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture". The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts...)
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Chicago, IL
January 29th, 2016
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Looking east along Ocean Boulevard, the road gently curves toward one of Long Beach’s most recognisable landmarks - the Villa Riviera. Completed in 1929, its copper-green roof and French Gothic styling rise above the palm-lined thoroughfare, blending the romance of old-world architecture with the laid-back energy of Southern California. A classic city vista where history meets the coast.
Taken on the Nikon D600 with 24-70mm Nikkor lens - my absolute favourite set up. I could spend the rest of my life in this place taking photos.
At home I live just two miles away from the home of Lever Brothers in Port Sunlight. Here a modern building is the German headquarters.
Designed by a team from Stuttgart, the futuristic Unilever-Haus is a model of sustainable architecture, and has received several awards, including the ‘World Architecture Festival Award 2009’.
Welcome to October.
Just after midnight, 10-1-2011
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Detail of the coloured glass fins on the sides of the Hawkins/Brown designed University of Oxford Biochemistry Department building. The building won the 2011 World Architecture News Colour Award and it's not hard to see why.
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A fachada principal da Catedral Nova de Salamanca é uma obra-prima da arquitetura gótica e barroca, cuja construção iniciou-se em 1513 e foi concluída em 1733. Esta fachada é notável pela sua riqueza de detalhes e elementos decorativos que refletem a grandiosidade e a complexidade dos estilos arquitetónicos que a influenciaram ao longo dos séculos.
A fachada principal é composta por três magníficos portais com arquivoltas churriguerescas, adornadas com cenas animadas. O tímpano da portada principal destaca-se pela representação da Adoração dos Pastores e dos Reis Magos, uma obra de Juan Rodríguez, discípulo de Gregorio Fernández. No alto da fachada, pode-se ver Cristo crucificado, flanqueado pelas figuras de Pedro e Paulo.
Long Street is a major street located in the historic city centre of Cape Town. This buzzling street is lined with many stores, various ethnic restaurants and bars. It exhibits a diversified culture and attracts tourists from all over the world.
Architecturally it is noted for its Victorian buildings with wrought iron balconies..
Le pont de Wandre relie, en enjambant la Meuse et le canal Albert, Herstal à Liège. Conçu par le bureau d’études René Greisch, il remplace deux ponts indépendants – un sur chaque voie d’eau – devenus obsolètes suite à la mise au gabarit du canal Albert, dont la largeur est passée de 35 à 85 m. Cet ouvrage, inauguré en 1989, vaudra une distinction au bureau qui l’a imaginé, outre une indéniable reconnaissance internationale.
Long de 524 m, le pont est un ouvrage haubané à pylône central unique d’une hauteur de 102 m, réalisé en béton armé et précontraint. Les travées principales ont une portée de 168 m (Meuse) et 144 m (canal Albert) et sont suspendues au pylône en Y renversé par 19 haubans (entre 73 et 175 m de longueur espacés tous les 6 m au niveau du tablier). La travée d’approche de la rive gauche est désolidarisée du reste et courbe afin de palier d’éventuels tassements dus à la présence d’anciens puits de mine.
La mise en œuvre adoptée a maintenu l’utilisation continue des axes routiers et fluviaux, si bien qu’une grande partie du tablier a été réalisée sur la rive gauche et mise en position par poussage, une technique inédite pour les ponts haubanés. Cette première architecturale mondiale est adéquatement rehaussée par un éclairage de nuit mis en place dès la conception.
Depuis 1993, le pont de Wandre est classé monument du patrimoine historique majeur de Belgique.
The Wandre bridge links, by spanning the Meuse and the Albert canal, Herstal to Liège. Designed by the René Greisch design office, it replaces two independent bridges - one on each waterway - which had become obsolete following the upgrading of the Albert Canal, whose width was reduced from 35 to 85 m. This work, inaugurated in 1989, will be worth a distinction to the office which imagined it, in addition to an undeniable international recognition.
The 524 m long bridge is a cable-stayed structure with a single central pylon, 102 m high, made of reinforced and prestressed concrete. The main spans have a span of 168 m (Meuse) and 144 m (Albert canal) and are suspended from the Y pylon overturned by 19 stay cables (between 73 and 175 m in length spaced every 6 m at the level of the deck). The approach span to the left bank is separated from the rest and curved to compensate for any settlements due to the presence of old mine shafts.
The implementation adopted maintained the continuous use of the road and river axes, so much so that a large part of the deck was carried out on the left bank and put into position by pushing, a new technique for cable-stayed bridges. This world architectural first is adequately enhanced by night lighting implemented from the design stage.
Since 1993, the Wandre bridge has been classified as a major historical heritage monument in Belgium.