Modern Architecture

Ecological housing building COR Miami Florida

Ecological housing building COR in Miami, Floride, USA by architects from Oppenheim office will be built in 2010. Except using solar panels, own wind turbines is hyper-efficient also shell of the building, so all his structure. Tower is a complex with offices, fitnes studio or diverse residential apartments.

Machine for living by Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel describes his proposal for a tower with residential living on 110 11th street in NY, USA as „a vision machine“. The building is noted for rounded wall a using diverse colourless panels of glass, set together in different angles and turning. 1650 panels on a 23 story structure just confirm amazement from proposal. Cover of building is behaving every hour or day variable and this game means to unclose the house to the nature.

Sound in colourfull box – Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, Neutelings and Riedijk

The new built Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, designed by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk, wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, it is their most gorgeous work to date. The building is conceived as a perfect cube, half of it buried underground. Interier is divided by materiallity for diferent worlds. Architects had played also with symbolic, which is clearly seen in a facade of multimedia hall where steel profile evokes the stained-glass windows of a medieval cathedral.

The tower that change a skyline in London

Rafaels Vinoly proposal for a new tower in a centre of London, UK, divided the architectural community into two highly charged camps. The tower will change a siluet of the town so considerably, that some architects have a thoughts that project may have crossed an invisible line of ‘acceptability’. The majority are in favour, which shows, that architect Vinoly designed a notable building.

Mecanoo inspire with a tree for a building in Taiwan

Netherlands architecture office Mecanoo architecten won the international competition for a New National Performing Arts Centre in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. An important source of inspiration for Mecanoo’s building design were the existing one of the world’s largest trees, the banyan trees on location. The building is really variable, with a lot of public space on the roof, where people can enjoy Tai Chi, meditate or just relax.