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Chicago, IL
April 13th, 2015
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Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies and Education City Mosque is located on the Education City Campus, Doha, Qatar.
Project by Mangera Yvars Architects, London, United Kingdom.
2015 World Architecture Festival Singapore, Best Religious Building award.
Chicago, IL
June 16th, 2015
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San Mamés (La Catedral) es un estadio de fútbol ubicado en Bilbao. Fue inaugurado en su primera fase de construcción el 16 de septiembre de 2013 y es el sucesor del antiguo San Mamés. Es utilizado principalmente por el Athletic Club para la práctica del fútbol. El campo tiene una capacidad de 53 289 localidades (ampliable en 2000 más, según el arquitecto César Azcárate), y cuenta con el rango de estadio de Categoría 4, el máximo otorgado por la UEFA, por lo que puede ser sede de la Eurocopa y albergar finales de la Liga Europa; no así de la Liga de Campeones, ya que ésta requiere un aforo mayor.
La primera piedra se colocó el 26 de mayo de 2010 y las obras comenzaron oficialmente el 25 de junio del mismo año. El estadio se realizó en dos fases: en la primera se llevó a cabo la construcción de los dos laterales y uno de los fondos, mientras que en la segunda se construyó el último fondo y se habilitaron los palcos VIP. Se estimó que el estadio estaría totalmente construido en la primavera de 2015, aunque el Athletic Club comenzó a jugar en él a partir de la temporada 2013/14, a falta de la construcción de uno de los fondos. El estadio fue inaugurado en su primera fase de construcción, el lunes 16 de septiembre de 2013.
El 19 de septiembre de 2014, la UEFA eligió San Mamés como una de las 13 sedes de la Eurocopa 2020. Se jugarán cuatro partidos: tres de la fase de grupos y uno de octavos de final.
El 5 de noviembre de 2015, San Mamés fue premiado en el World Architecture Festival, celebrado en Singapur, como el mejor edificio deportivo del mundo de nueva construcción.
Recientemente (11 y 12 de Mayo de 2018) se transformó por primera vez en un campo de rugby para acoger las finales europeas de la Challenge Cup y la Champions Cup. 24-10-2015.
Chicago, IL
January 23rd, 2013
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The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, 4 miles (6 km) long by 1.7 miles (2.7 km) wide, in the English Channel.[2] Portland is 5 miles (8 km) south of the resort of Weymouth, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England. A barrier beach called Chesil Beach joins it to the mainland. The A354 road passes down the Portland end of the beach and then over the Fleet Lagoon by bridge to the mainland. Portland and Weymouth together form the borough of Weymouth and Portland. The population of Portland is 12,400.
Portland is a central part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site on the Dorset and east Devon coast, important for its geology and landforms. Portland stone, famous for its use in British and world architecture, including St Paul's Cathedral and the United Nations Headquarters, continues to be quarried.
Portland Harbour, in between Portland and Weymouth, is one of the largest man-made harbours in the world. The harbour was made by the building of stone breakwaters between 1848 and 1905. From its inception it was a Royal Navy base, and played prominent roles during the First and Second World Wars; ships of the Royal Navy and NATO countries worked up and exercised in its waters until 1995. The harbour is now a civilian port and popular recreation area, and was used for the 2012 Olympic Games.
When we stay at West Bay, we always drive to the Isle of Portland to see Portland Bill, one of my favourite red and white lighthouses.
I am still feeling a bit under the weather - only two days now to recover before we fly out.
May 31st, 2014
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Pioneer Square, Seattle WA
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art"
Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa
You generally have to fly into Pisa International Airport for Florence, so it would be a missed opportunity not to visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa at some point during our city break and get that tick in the box of another world architectural icon. We decided to visit on our way back to the airport, but unfortunately you don’t get dropped off anywhere near, so we jumped in a taxi and headed back. Pisa is a surprisingly big town and it took a good 20mins (through a lot of back streets I might add) to get to the Campo dei Miracoli or Piazza dei Miracoli, which means Field of Miracles or Square of Miracles... you take your pick!
There are 4 main buildings in the Piazza dei Miracoli: - the cathedral – Duomo di Pisa, the Baptistery. Work started on the campanile third in sequence but the cemetery, Campo Santo, was completed ahead of the tower, which took centuries to complete for obvious reasons.
We only had 30mins here (didn’t have chance to climb the tower, which I would most certainly have done time permitting) hence the touristy shots.
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Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently celebrated a decade of extraordinary success on October 19, 2007. With close to ninety exhibitions and over ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao forever changed the way the world thinks about museums, and it continues to challenge our assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection has a unique, yet complementary, identity from the collections at the other Guggenheim institutions, featuring works by some of the most significant artists of the second half of the 20th century: Eduardo Chillida, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Clyfford Still, Antoni Tàpies, and Andy Warhol, among others.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovialand located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "single moment in the architectural culture" because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something."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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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Smoke on the Water
Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park
Chicago, IL
May 7th, 2014
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View from the Signature Room at John Hancock Center.
Chicago, IL
July 28th, 2012
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CopenHill or Amager Bakke is a combined heat and power plant and recreational facility in Copenhagen. The sports facility was designed by the architects Bjarke Ingels Group with an 85 m (279 ft) tall sloped roof that doubles as year-round artificial ski slope, hiking slope and climbing wall. CopenHill was named the "World Building of the Year 2021" at the annual World Architecture Festival.
The plant opened in 2017. It is expected to burn 400,000 tons of municipal solid waste annually. Because of filtration and other technologies, sulphur emission is expected to be reduced by 99.5% and NOx by about 95%. It is claimed to be the cleanest incineration plant in the world.
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www.copenhill.dk/en/ (website also in English)
Chicago, IL
10-11-12
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The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, USA.
Designed in 1888 and begun in 1892, the cathedral has undergone radical stylistic changes and interruption of construction by the two World Wars. Originally designed in the Byzantine Revival-Romanesque Revival styles, the plan was changed after 1909 to a Gothic Revival design.
There is some dispute about whether this cathedral or Liverpool Cathedral is the world's largest Anglican cathedral and church. The building is the fifth largest Christian church in the world.
Architectural styles: Romanesque Revival and Gothic Revival
Christian denomination: Episcopal Church (Protestant)
The Cathedral of Monreale, also called Santa Maria la Nuova, is a Sicilian masterpiece built during the Middle Ages. Is one of the best examples of coexistence between Islamic, Byzantine and Romanesque cultures. The church was founded by the Norman king William the II between 1174 and 1189, at the same time with the Abbey, the Royal Palace and the Archbishop’s Palace with which it constitutes a complex, expanded during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The external part of the Cathedral shows its Arab-Norman nature, with arches, windows and coloured marbles which are typical expressions of that kind of architecture. ..
This is the Oslo Opera House which was designed by the firm Snohetta and completed in 2007. It is located at the head of the Oslofjord and mimics and iceberg.The Opera House won the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in October 2008 and the 2009 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe award).
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According to the legend, the Foundation stone of the temple was founded by Peter I. the Church was looted during the time of the war of 1812. Personally Napoleon, fascinated by the grandeur and richness of the temple gave the order to take out of him values in France, but because of the Smolensk peasants almost all of the interior was returned to the temple. Has not returned only antique silver chandelier, which was sawed to pieces; in return for the lost Emperor Alexander I sent a new bronze with crystal pendants. In the Soviet time the Church survived, thanks to the fact, that was included by the League of Nations in the list of outstanding monuments of world architecture. / По преданию, камень в основание храма был заложен Петром I. Храм был разграблен во время войны 1812г. Лично Наполеон, очарованный великолепием и богатством храма отдал приказ вывезти из него ценности во Францию, но благодаря смоленским крестьянам почти все убранство было возвращено храму. Не вернулось только старинное серебряное паникадило, которое распилили на куски; взамен утраченного император Александр I прислал новое бронзовое с хрустальными подвесками. В советское время храм уцелел, благодаря тому, что был включен Лигой Наций в список выдающихся памятников мировой архитектуры.
North Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
1-6-2012
Taken with an iPhone using AutoStitch, Camera+ & Sunrise Sunset
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jørn utzon turns ninety today and the Danish press abounds with misinformation about this elusive master of architecture.
"the utzon center" in aalborg, denmark, opens today. designed by utzon with the help of his sons, claim the newspapers. impressive news considering his failing eyesight, not to mention the fact that utzon closed down his office when the production of construction drawings for kuwait national assembly moved to max walt's office in zürich in the mid 1970's.
the utzon center in aalborg is designed by kim utzon, his youngest son, who is also the architect behind another utzon news story today: "jørn utzon designs 22 single family houses in skagen". no, he doesn't. the son does. inspired by his father, no doubt, but a novel inspired by stendhal is not a novel by stendhal. it really is that simple.
another misunderstanding from today, and I quote: "today the opera is being restored following the original drawings". sadly it isn't. it is being restored to designs by jan utzon. his design abilities can be studied here: Las Pulgas
increasingly, I am reminded of the actions of nietzsche's sister and mother after he fell ill.
but members of his family are not the only ones to fail utzon's legacy. today saw the publication of a 260 page book dealing only with his design for the national assembly in kuwait. I left work early to secure a copy for myself. the parliament building has been published extensively already but the three different designs for a mosque that utzon did in connection with it have received little coverage. sadly, the new book is no different.
seen in connection with the fact that a recent book on the church in bagsværd did not include a particular sectional sketch in which the vaults can be seen as a piece of stylized arabic calligraphy, and the fact that richard weston's huge book on utzon dismisses his great design for farum town centre as being too islamic, I can only see this as a sign of today's islamophobia. utzon himself never displayed such sentiments and indeed his work cannot be understood without the east.
in 1948, utzon wrote: "different types of nature arise from the same seeds under different conditions. the conditions in our times are completely different from those that existed before, but the essence of architecture, the seed, is the same".
this belief, that the fundamentals of architecture are the same regardless of culture and age, meant that utzon could learn equally from ancient iranian masters and from modern engineering. ultimately, it means that cultures can learn from each other, that we are not separate but that we share values and experiences intrinsic to being human. in todays political climate, that amounts to optimism. utzon's architecture, said sverre fehn, is world-architecture. I return to it for the comfort of wisdom in an age where exchange between the cultures seems reduced to insult, trade or bullets.
the photo shows an original utzon design:
middelboe house, holte, denmark.
architect jorn utzon, 1953-1955.
photographer is my good colleague christoffer pilgaard.
Building with 476 apartments that looks like the figure 8 from above (built 2010). Award winner in the category best housing project in the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona 2011. Architect: BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group, Denmark. (In the World Architecture Festival 2008 the architects won the same award for the housing project The Mountain.)
Chicago, IL
February 26th, 2015
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Even the most beautiful health centre in Sweden? Winner in the category "Best Health Building" at World Architecture Festival 2016. www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/2016-category-winners
Glass facades in different colors that reflects the surroundings. Built in 2016 on pillars over a parking lot in Bergsjön, a suburb of Gothenburg. Health center owned by four of the doctors and one nurse.
Architect: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor (Anders Olausson and Gert Wingårdh).
www.wingardhs.se (website only in English).
Developer: Nötkärnan Vård och Omsorg AB och Bergsjön Vårdcentral och BVC AB.
www.bergsjonvardcentral.se (website only in Swedish).
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Frank O. Gehry Guggenheim Architecture
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank[1] Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are 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".[2]
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; 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; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City. 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. Gehry is also the designer of the future Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
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Frank Gehrys masterpiece, the Bilbao Guggenheim from the bridge, surely one of 'the' buildings of the 20th Century......
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From Wikipedia : "The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something." 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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Taken from the bridge looking back towards the city end.
The Kurilpa 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. Baulderstone Queensland Pty Ltd constructed the bridge and the company’s design team included Cox Rayner Architects and Arup Engineers.
A sod turning ceremony was held at Kurilpa Park, South Brisbane on 12 December 2007. The bridge was opened on 4 October 2009 by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.
Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest hybrid tensegrity bridge. Only the horizontal spars conform to tensegrity principles. The Kurilpa Bridge is a multiple-mast, cable-stay structure based on principles of tensegrity producing a synergy between balanced tension and compression components to create a light structure which is incredibly strong.
The bridge is 470m long with a main span of 128m and features two large viewing and relaxation platforms, two rest areas, and a continuous all-weather canopy for the entire length of the bridge. A canopy is supported by a secondary tensegrity structure. It is estimated that 550 tons of structural steel including 6.8 km of helical strand cable are incorporated into the bridge. 75-100% of power is solar.
Kurilpa is the Aboriginal name for West End and South Brisbane and means 'water rats'.
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Lincoln Park
Chicago, IL
February 2nd, 2015
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Chicago, IL
11/29/2012
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The famous Rose Room in the New York Public Library.
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One of New York City’s most iconic locations, the majestic Rose Main Reading Room measures 78 feet by 297 feet—roughly the length of two city blocks—with 52-foot-tall ceilings displaying murals of vibrant skies and billowing clouds. This breathtaking Beaux-Arts space weaves Old World architectural elegance with modern technology. Here, patrons can request material from the Milstein Stacks, the Library’s environmentally optimal storage facility located underneath Bryant Park with a capacity of over 4 million items. Visitors can also browse and read the thousands of reference volumes lining the shelves.
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Neither the bad weather can avoid the visit of tourists in one of the greatest icons of world architecture, the great Hagia Sophia of Istanbul.
September 10th, 2015
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Christian churches were created in Viking settlements starting in the
12th century.
The Anglo-Saxon missionaries worked with native builders to create the
distinctive style replicated in this MOC.
The large stones at the foundation of the church were key to surviving
the freeze/thaw cycle of Scandinavian winters[1].
This was also my entry into
LOLUG's September Iron Builder contest.
The seed part was the dark, bley, round 2x2 tile that I used for the roof
as well as the steeple's cross.
This was the winning entry.
I borrowed the stonework from
[1] Moffett, M., Fazio, M. W., & Wodehouse, L. (2004).
Buildings across time: An introduction to world architecture.
Boston: McGraw-Hill.
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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by former King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, it is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something." 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.
n 1991, the Basque government suggested to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation that it would fund a Guggenheim museum to be built in Bilbao's decrepit port area, once the city's main source of income. The Basque government agreed to cover the US$100 million construction cost, to create a US$50 million acquisitions fund, to pay a one-time US$20 million fee to the Guggenheim and to subsidize the museum's US$12 million annual budget. In exchange, the Foundation agreed to manage the institution, rotate parts of its permanent collection through the Bilbao museum and organize temporary exhibitions.
The museum was built by Ferrovial, at a cost of US$89 million. About 5,000 residents of Bilbao attended a preopening extravaganza outside the museum on the night preceding the official opening, featuring an outdoor light show and concerts. On 18 October 1997 the museum was opened by Juan Carlos I of Spain.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation selected Frank Gehry as the architect, and its director, Thomas Krens, encouraged him to design something daring and innovative. The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random; the architect said that "the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light". The interior "is designed around a large, light-filled atrium with views of Bilbao's estuary and the surrounding hills of the Basque country". The atrium, which Gehry nicknamed The Flower because of its shape, serves as the organizing center of the museum.
When the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened to the public in 1997, it was immediately hailed as one of the world's most spectacular buildings in the style of Deconstructivism (although Gehry does not associate himself with that architectural movement), a masterpiece of the 20th century. Architect Philip Johnson described it as "the greatest building of our time", while critic Calvin Tomkins, in The New Yorker, characterized it as "a fantastic dream ship of undulating form in a cloak of titanium," its brilliantly reflective panels also reminiscent of fish scales. Herbert Muschamp praised its "mercurial brilliance" in The New York Times Magazine. The Independent calls the museum "an astonishing architectural feat". The building inspired other structures of similar design across the globe.
The museum is seamlessly integrated into the urban context, unfolding its interconnecting shapes of stone, glass and titanium on a 32,500-square-meter (350,000 sq ft) site along the Nervión River in the old industrial heart of the city; while modest from street level, it is most impressive when viewed from the river.[15][16] With a total 24,000 m2 (260,000 sq ft), of which 11,000 m2 (120,000 sq ft) are dedicated to exhibition space, it had more exhibition space than the three Guggenheim collections in New York and Venice combined at that time. The 11,000 m2 of exhibition space are distributed over nineteen galleries, ten of which follow a classic orthogonal plan that can be identified from the exterior by their stone finishes. The remaining nine galleries are irregularly shaped and can be identified from the outside by their swirling organic forms and titanium cladding. The largest gallery measures 30 meters wide and 130 meters long (98 ft × 427 ft). In 2005, it housed Richard Serra's monumental installation The Matter of Time, which Robert Hughes dubbed "courageous and sublime".
The museum by night, November 2007
The building was constructed on time and budget, which is rare for architecture of this type. In an interview in Harvard Design Magazine, Gehry explained how he did it. First, he ensured that what he calls the "organization of the artist" prevailed during construction, to prevent political and business interests from interfering with the design. Second, he made sure he had a detailed and realistic cost estimate before proceeding. Third, he used computer visualizations produced by his own Digital Project software and collaborated closely with the individual building trades to control costs during construction.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines donated $1,000,000 towards its construction.
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