Thursday, December 31, 2009

HERE'S Building 10 The Best Of 2000-2009 Year!

1. Millennium Dome, London, Year 2000
Designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and engineers Büro Happold, 365 meters in diameter with a peak reaching 100 meters. We have a huge tent the size of this titanic still is something very impressive views of the design and dimensions.


2. Blur, Expo 02, Yverdon-les-Bains, 2002
This sensational Pavilion designed by the architects of New York, Diller + Scofidio, was once a star on the show Switzerland's Expo 02. Like swing a cat tensil iron, with a height of 20 meters and 100 meters long, gathered at the end of the pier made of steel and glass on the lake Neutchatel. In it, 30 thousand water jets create a cloud of fog that never stops.


3. Serpentine Pavilion, London, 2002
This beautiful pavilion designed by architect Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond engineer, built as a reference architecture in the future, which limits the walls, floors, ceilings, interior and exterior as unified. The term contemporary, sophisticated and minimalist.


4. 30 St Mary Ax, London, 2003
Initially "cucumber" Norman Foster's is admired and scorned. Most fascinated by this office building, though some think it represents the excessive ambition of the city. Here is a fascinating and skygardens famous restaurants worldwide.


5. European Southern Observatory Hotel, Cerro Paranal, Chile, 2003
"Hotel" is to the astronomer who worked in the Atacama desert, is a perfect combination between architecture and landscpae, from practitioners Munich, Auer and Weber, as well as engineers and Ludescher Mayr. Geometric concrete walls forming a beautiful red abbey style pages and temples, behind the rooms that lined much.


6. Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, 2008
80 thousand capacity stadium seating was designed by Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron and Chinese artists, Ai Weiwei, is a landmark building for the 2008 Olympics. Consists of two main buildings, one of whom was in the other: a giant concrete bowl for the red seat surrounded by a "bird's nest" of steel giant.


7. St Pancras Railway Station, London, 2007
Is an extraordinary revival of the rail terminus Gothic Victorian era, when this is one of the largest station in the world. Alastair lansley led his team for more than a decade, changing the architectural style of 19th century and made it home for fast trains 21st century. Here too there is hotel and penthouse flats for those who want to spend the night.


8. Le Viaduc de Millau, Aveyron, 2004
The bridge is beautiful and wonderful it through the Tarn Valley in southern France. Designed by engineer Michel Virlogeux and Norman Foster, Viaduc de Millau bridge is the most wonderful views from the top side of the valley, especially at the ends of the bridge column appears in the clouds in the summer.


9. Neues Museum, Berlin, 2009
After 10 years of exhaustive reconstruction, 19th century cultural building closed in 1939 was re-opened and became popular. Redesigned the complex and intelligent by British architect David Chipperfield, who did not eliminate the classic feel of the building should be adjusted even though the current technological developments.


10. Burj Dubai, Highest Building in the World
Rising high into the sky until 818 meters, equivalent to the building plus the Empire State Building Chrysler Building on top. Designed by Adrian Smith in Bill Baker of Chicago, Al-Burj has a 160 floor hotel rooms, apartments and offices Armani style.




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