Modern Architecture

Burj Dubai actual photos

Burj Dubai is a skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure on Earth, despite being incomplete. Construction began on September 21, 2004, and it is expected to be completed and ready for occupation in September 2009.

Fluid pavilion by 3deluxe

Pavilion called Leonardo Glass Cube near Bad Driburg in Germany was built by 3deluxe studio. Concrete pathways between green grass are folding to facade, they are surrounded there with glass and going up to the roof, where this 2D concrete elements change themselves to three-dimensional structure that complete interior.

Virtual exhibition – ME100

You can find an exhibition on the website www.me100.cz. It is work of czech atelier DRNH. Antonin Novak and Petr Valenta are inviting us on exhibition about town, which is inspirated by books of czech writers Pavel Hnilicka and Vaclav Cilek. Architects are trying to warn us about situation in postcommunistic states, where the landscape is devastated by unsensitive housing. So they show us in couple of projects the way we should go.

Eco-hotel in a quarry

The Songjiang district, near the Chinese city Shangai, is a popular zone for recreation. Firm Atkins, famous for their grandiose projects, proposed a set of hotels called Songjiang. The key factor of the design is the water, that is all around the building. The hotel is created in the deep quarry and this point reflexes on a simple look. The building has also underwater parts. The roof is grassy and whole complex will use geothermal energy for an electrical supply and heating, so the interference with the nature will be smaller.

Zaha Hadid and conception of Glasgow Museum of Transport

     Project for a New Glasgow Museum of Transport, Scotland, by Zaha Hadid was selected from 44 others architects and designers and the museum will be open to the public by 2009. The building is concipate as a tunnel-like shed, which is open at opposite ends, where the building diverts to create a journey away from the external context into the world of the exhibits. cross-sectional outline is a responsive gesture to encapsulating a wave or a ‘pleated’ movement, contrast to lenghtwise section.