Rafael Viñoly designed the 20 Fenchurch St. skyscraper, completed in 2014 near the St. Paul’s cathedral. It rises 160 m and 34 floors, and replaces an ugly 1960’s skyscraper by William H. Rogers. The building has been attacked for reflecting …
Syed Mainul Hossain designed the Dhaka Monument in memorial of the Bangladesh Liberation War of independence from Pakistan of 1971. This Brutalist monument was completed in 1982 and contributed to a unique and nationalistic image for the new state. It …
(ToonariPost – A News Mash Up– flickr/creative commons license) Roger Taillibert designed the Montreal Quebec Olympic velodrome in 1976, which was converted into the Biodome nature museum in 1992. It sits at the olympic park in front of the Olympic …
(jasoneppink– flickr/creative commons license) Delugan Meissl Associated Architects designed the EYE Film Institute Netherlands building in Amsterdam, completed in 2012. The geometric white building takes on roles as both a viewing device and active participant in the city. Like film, …
I.M. Pei designed the Doha Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, completed in 2008. He chose to create an artificial peninsula for the site, a 195 stretch of land in the center of the city that dots a crescent shaped …
Rob van Erk designed the office tower for the Beurs World Trade Center in Rotterdam, completed in 1987. At 93m tall, it contains about 200 office spaces. This was inserted into the middle of a 1940 office building by …
(y.caradec– flickr/creative commons license) Coop Himmelblau designed the Museum of Confluences in Lyon, France in 2014. The museum is dedicated to natural science and anthropology, beginning with questions of man’s origins and purpose. The exhibits explain the big bang theory, …
(hyeongbinkim– flickr/creative commons license) Thomas Burgh (1670-1730) designed the old library at Trinity College in Dublin, UK, completed in 1732. Queen Elizabeth I founded the Trinity College in 1592. The long room houses 200,000 historical books on two tall levels, …
(Loz Flowers– flickr/creative commons license) José Selgas and Lucía Cano from Madrid, Spain designed the 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. ETFE plastic of various colors wraps around metal arches. The resulting passagways provide a variety of space quality, light …
Josef Stöger designed the Baumwipfelpfad Harz observation tower above the Black Forest in southern Germany. At a height of 40m, the upper platform is accessed by a wooden spiral pathway that is cantilevered infrom 12 support beams. These support beams …