Huffington Post Architecture Image Gallery

[Mongo]

I saw this story at the Huffington Post, and thought that the images would be of interest here. Text from the article.

Amazing Architecture: 11 Incredible Buildings From the Future

My Dream, Our Vision

Design Act designed this incredible building, made up of permutated cubes, for the World Expo 2010 Singapore Pavilion competition.

Gazprom City

Daniel Libeskind conceived this striking skyscraper for Gazprom City, St. Petersburg.

Vertical Village

Graft Lab's architects created this energy-efficient Vertical Village, to be built in Dubai, with the most advanced solar panels and cells to maximize solar energy production.

Dragonfly Vertical Farm

Vincent Callebaut's architects designed the "Dragonfly" vertical farm for the New York City skyline. The 132-floor, 2,000 foot-tall structure (resembling a dragonfly's wing) would contain residences, offices, farming space, and even areas dedicated to growing and studying both produce and livestock.

Songjiang Hotel, China

Atkins' five-star resort hotel set would be set inside a water-filled quarry in the Songjiang, China. The 400-bed hotel would include underwater public areas and guestrooms. An extreme sports center, offering rock climbing and bungee jumping, would be suspended over the quarry.

Dynamic Architecture Rotating Tower

Architect David Fisher designed a skyscraper made up of pre-fabricated floors that can each rotate independently, resulting in a tower whose shape is able to constantly change. Each floor can complete a full rotation in 90 minutes. Residents, if they own the entire floor, are able to control the speed and direction of the rotation by voice command: wake up watching the sunrise, have dinner watching the sunset.

Cybertecture Egg

James Law Cybertecture International designed this 32,000 square-meter Cybertecture Egg, commissioned by Vijay Associate (Wadhwa Developers) for Mumbai, India.

Crescent Hydropolis Underwater Resort

Crescent Hydropolis, currently being constructed in Dubai, will be the world's first luxury underwater hotel. To enter the 200 submarine suites, guests will arrive at a land station, then be transported via train to the main area of the hotel offshore. The 1.1-million-square-foot area will include a shopping mall, restaurants, movie theaters, and missile-defense system, all 60-feet underwater.

ACME United Nations Memorial Space

ACME, a design firm, submitted this stunning hive-like design to South Korea's design competition, which called for designs for a memorial space in a United Nations Peace Park. Individual cells are combined to form this cube structure.

Cobra Towers, Kuwait

Part rumor, part legend, the Cobra Tower is a vision for a twisted skyscraper that would adorn Kuwait's cityscape.

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Center

Zaha Hadid's Performing Arts Center will form part of a multi-billion dollar cultural district in Abu Dhabi. Hadid describes the structure as a “biological analogy”, with branch and leaf-like components that are “transformed from these abstract diagrams into architectonic design.”

 

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Crescent Hydropolis Underwater Resort

Crescent Hydropolis, currently being constructed in Dubai, will be the world's first luxury underwater hotel. To enter the 200 submarine suites, guests will arrive at a land station, then be transported via train to the main area of the hotel offshore. The 1.1-million-square-foot area will include a shopping mall, restaurants, movie theaters, and missile-defense system, all 60-feet underwater.

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[Mongo]

The competition between upscale hotels in Dubai must be tougher than I had thought.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

I saw this story at the Huffington Post, and thought that the images would be of interest here. Text from the article.

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Center

Zaha Hadid's Performing Arts Center will form part of a multi-billion dollar cultural district in Abu Dhabi. Hadid describes the structure as a “biological analogyâ€, with branch and leaf-like components that are “transformed from these abstract diagrams into architectonic design.â€

Imagine something like this on our waterfront between Jarvis and Cherry Street. An entertainment complex that would serve the new East Bayfront/West Don Lands area in years to come - even the Toronto Aquarium! What a contrast something like this would be next to Corus Quay....

 

[urbanboom]

^ Yeah that's great. But it still looks like a sperm.

 

[adma]

So? Maybe the Toronto Aquarium will have a sperm whale...

 

[kEiThZ]

The competition between upscale hotels in Dubai must be tougher than I had thought.

They have an ongoing border dispute with Iran that occassionally has flared into naval clashes.

 

[Urban Shocker]

That Hadid thing looks like stepped-on chewing gum, so it might actually be a reasonably iconic structure for our city.

 

[Archivist]

The performing arts centre was, for me, one of the least attractive propositions in that gallery of oddities. It's street presence is nil, if it were on our waterfront Queens Quay would be greeted with a grass berm and an overpass if we were passing by on foot. Unless I am misreading it, it looks completely designed for vehicles, and looks like a long a ugly trudge from anywhere else to get to it.

Wild shapes aside, it looks to me highly anti-urban. I want to leave a performing arts centre and be on something resembling a city street. I prefer Toronto's waterfront plans to Abu Dhabi's. I don't suppose it will matter much to them, though, their waterfront was abundant with parks, but not with people, when I was there.

 

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Yeah, I also noticed how most of the designs are in the middle of a greenfield somewhere.