Modern Architecture Modern Architecture Josefino Tulabing Larena, CPS,MPA

Top 10 Tallest Buildings in the World

• Building name 1.• Burj Khalifa• Dubai, UAE• 828• 2717• 160• 2010

• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built

Taipei 101

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built• 2.• Taipei 101• Taipei, Taiwan• 509• 1671• 101• 2004

Shanghai World Financial Center

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built • 3.• Shanghai World Financial Center• Shanghai, China• 492• 1614• 101• 2008

International Commerce Centre

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built • 4.• International Commerce Centre• Kowloon, Hong Kong• 483• 1584• 118• 2009

Petronas Towers

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built • 5 Petronas Towers• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia• 452• 1483• 88• 1998

Nanjing Greenland Financial Center

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built• 6.• Nanjing Greenland Financial Center• Nanjing, China• 450• 1476• 89• 2009

Willis Tower

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built • 7.• Willis Tower• Chicago, USA• 442• 1451• 108• 1973

Guangzhou West Tower

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built• 8.• Guangzhou West Tower• Guangzhou, China• 440• 1444• 103• 2009

Trump International Hotel and Tower

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built• 9.• Trump International Hotel and Tower• Chicago, USA• 423• 1389• 96• 2009

Jin Mao Tower

• Building name• Location• Height (metres)• Height (feet)• Floors• Year built• 10.• Jin Mao Tower• Shanghai, China• 421• 1380• 88• 1998

10 Blockbuster Buildings From Around the World

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• ReykjavÍk, Iceland

GARDENS BY THE BAYSingapore

Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Grant Associates, 2012

• Side-by-side parabolic conservatories of glass and steel anchor this cutting-edge botanical garden in Singapore’s booming Marina Bay district. Named the 2012 building of the year by the World Architecture Festival, the Wilkinson Eyre–designed structures replicate distinct climates—one dry, the other humid—allowing for diverse attractions like a flower meadow and a misty mountain forest.

LINKED HYBRIDBeijing

Steven Holl Architects, 2009

• Composed of eight connected towers, this mixed-use complex represents a compelling vision for 21st-century urban development. To combat the isolation often associated with luxury residential buildings and gated communities, the architects placed wide, open passages at ground level, ushering pedestrians into a series of public spaces that include gardens, shops, restaurants, and schools.

THE SHARDLondon

Renzo Piano Building Workshop, 2012

• Familiar to watchers of last summer’s Olympic Games, this 72-story skyscraper—the tallest in Western Europe—has transformed the British capital’s skyline, rising arrestingly on the southern banks of the Thames. Inspired by church steeples, the structure comprises eight angled glass façades that variously reflect the surrounding city and sky and offer crystal-clear glimpses inside. Intended by Piano to act as a vertical village, the multifunctional building includes offices, apartments, restaurants, and a hotel—all crowned by a recently opened observation platform, which affords stunning views up to 40 miles in every direction.

PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCEDallas

Morphosis Architects, 2012

• Architect Thom Mayne, the Pritzker Prize–winning founder of Morphosis, is famous for breaking the mold, and his latest building is no exception. Sheathed in panels of textured concrete, it consists of a five-story cube, fractured at one corner and set atop a sweeping plinth planted with Texas grasses. Slashed across the cube’s exterior is a dramatic glass-enclosed escalator, which whisks visitors to the top-floor entrance to the exhibits.

PARRISH ART MUSEUMWater Mill, New York

Herzog & de Meuron, 2012

• Topped by a double-gable roof of white corrugated metal, the Parrish’s strikingly horizontal new home melds brilliantly with its setting, nodding in form to both the traditional barns and the cottage like artist studios that have long been associated with Long Island’s East End.

Another exterior view of the 615-feet-long museum.

GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSEGuangzhou, China

Zaha Hadid Architects, 2010

• China’s building boom has produced some audacious projects, and few are as eye-popping as Hadid’s performance center for the southern industrial city of Guangzhou. The venue consists of two dynamic fluid-form structures, the larger housing an undulating, gilded 1,800-seat hall and the smaller home to a more intimate 400-seat space.

METROPOL PARASOLSeville, Spain

J. Mayer H. Architects, 2011

• When excavation for a parking garage unearthed Roman artifacts in Seville’s Plaza de la Encarnación, city officials opted to commission this welcoming landmark instead.

• METROPOL PARASOL• Some 90 feet high and nearly 500 feet long, the billowing timber

pavilion is part pergola, part urban parlor. Viewing platforms are perched atop the organic forms, which also shelter restaurants and an archaeological museum.

ABSOLUTE WORLDMississauga, OntarioMAD Architects, 2012

• These residential high-rises strike a voluptuous profile in Toronto’s largest suburb. With continuous balconies and elliptical floor plans, the 50- and 56-story skyscrapers appear to shimmy and twist, each around its own axis.

Famous Museum Architecture

• The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar. Designed by I. M. Pei.

• The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Founded by Catherine the Great in 1794

• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. Original limestone building from the 1930s, modern extension designed by Steven Holl. Photos by Roland Halbe via The New York Times.

• The Hanoi Museum, Vietnam. Designed by GMP Architects.

• Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain. Designed by Frank Gehry

• Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

• The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.

• The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.

• National Art Museum of Brussels ,Belgium

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