Yet, shockingly, that list almost pales in comparison with the fact that the firm's design of the building-an asymmetrical form with rounded corners-saved some $58 million in material cost versus a traditional angular build of the same size. Shanghai Tower (2015) by Gensler (Shanghai)ĭesigned by Gensler and completed in 2015, the 2,073 foot-tall Shanghai Tower (pictured in the center) has a seemingly endless list of records: tallest building in China, second tallest in the world, world's tallest observation deck, and the world's second-fastest elevator system. It's a structure that's both whimsical and sturdy, much like the meandering paths and endless row of trees that surround it. "Of course, in a museum structure, you can’t hang paintings on glass, so we had to design a more enclosed building inside the glass exterior." This play between solid and glass works to perfection within the verdant atmosphere of the Bois de Boulogne. When we were confronted with a site in the Bois de Boulogne, glass seemed like the best way to add a structure to the beautiful garden," says Gehry. "I’ve always loved the glass greenhouse buildings in French and British gardens. For his inspiration, Gehry looked back to several great designs of the 19th century. The building is filled with LVMH’s impressive art collection, with works ranging from Kusama and Abramovi´c to Matisse and Giacometti spread throughout the 126,000-square-foot, two-and-a-half-story space. Completed in 2014, the vessel-shaped glass structure sits among the trees and lawns of Paris's Bois de Boulogne. Yet, leave it to the most lyrical of all starchitects, Frank Gehry, and his phenomenal Fondation Louis Vuitton, to accomplish such a feat. Atop the structure's roof is a nearly 1,500-foot-long ski slope, paved with paths designated for beginners, intermediates, and experts.įondation Louis Vuitton (2014) by Frank Gehry (Paris)ĭue to its strict building codes, and architectural pedigree, Paris is among the world's most difficult places to successfully design modern architecture. Yet, unlike every other waste management plant before it, BIG's takes its one step further. Located in Copenhagen, Ingels's structure burns waste into enough clean energy to annually power 60,000 homes in the area. Or CopenHill, a project started in 2013 by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) that has gone on to redefine our notion that eco-friendly architecture can be done with high design. Take Foster + Partners' Apple Park, which-from its fully solar panel–clad rooftop to its ability to maintain an interior temperature of 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit by using an intake and release of natural air from the outdoors-has revolutionized the way in which modern company headquarters are designed. Every so often, however, a building is completed that almost universally turns heads, and in the process, veers the collective practice of architecture in a new direction. In fact, much of architecture consists of those banal platitudes that are necessary for cities to grow and humanity to advance. The design of office buildings, museums, airports, train stations, and homes, can't always be revolutionary.
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