Urban Environment Project

Jordan

Frank Gehry

Walt disney concert hall in Los Angeles, USA

bIOMUSEO IN pANAMA cITY

aRT gALLERY oF oNTARIO IN tORONTO, cANADA

The Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic

5 Interesting facts about Frank Gehry

1. Frank Gehry was born in 1929 in Toronto, Canada but lives in Los Angeles, USA

2. hE designed DIFFERENT Types and SHAPES OF BUILDINGS ALL OVER THE WORLD

3. hE DESIGNED THE wALT dISNEY CONCERT HALL IN la and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

4. He also designed the Art Galley of Ontario AND THE dANCING HOUSE IN pRAGUE

5. Gehry was also designer for the Dwight Eisenhower Memorial

mY oPINION ON fRANK gEHRYThe reason why i like these buildings is because of the different shapes that he uses to design. He makes buildings with different shapes and patterns . he did this for the Disney house and also using different colours and light effects like the Dancing House.

Zaha Hadid

London Aquatics Centre, Olympic Park, London

Guangzhou Opera House, Guangzhou, China

Bergiselschanze Stadium, Innsbruck, Austria

Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, GermanyPhaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany

CMA CGM Tower, Marseille, France

5 Interesting facts about Zaha Hadid

1. Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British Architect. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950

2. Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004

3. She also received the Sterling Prize in 2010 and 2011

4. She was the architect responsible for designing the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 London Olympic Games

5. She also designed the Bergiselschanze Ski Jump stadium and the Guangzhou Opera House

mY OPINION ON zAHA hADID

tHE REASON WHY i LIKE THESE buildings IS BECAUSE OF THE WAY SHE DESIGNED THE BUILDINGS BY MAKING THEM MOSTLY CURVED AND MOST OF THE BUILDINGS SHE DESIGNED WERE MADE OUT OF CONCRETE and i liked the way she designed the ski jump stadium.

nORMAN fOSTER

The Gherkin, London, England

The Reichstag Building, Berlin, Germany

Camp Nou, bARCELONA, sPAINmILLAU vIADUCT, mILLAU, fRANCE

wEMBLEY sTADIUM, wEMBLEY, lONDON, England

5 Interesting facts about NormAN fOSTER

1. Norman Foster was born in 1935 in Stockport, Cheshire, England

2. In 2009 Foster was awarded the Prince of Asturias award in the arts category

3. Foster was the architect responsible for designing iconic places such as The GHerkin and wembley stadium.

4. In 1967 Foster joined up with Wendy Chessman and started their own company calling it Foster Associates later becoming Foster and pARTNERS.

5. fOSTER WAS KNIGHTED IN 1990 AND 9 YEARS LATER HE WAS CREATED A LIFE PEER AS bARON fOSTER

My Opinion on Norman Foster

tHE REASON WHY i LIKE THESE buildings IS BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE DESIGNED THESE ICONIC PLACES AROUND eUROPE, THE BUILDINGS ARE MOSTLY CURVED BY THE WAY HE DESIGNED wEMBLEY sTADIUM AND THE gHERKIN.

rICHARD rOGERS

The Law Courts, Antwerp, Belgium

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Las Arenas, Barcelona, Spain The Lloyd’s Building, London, England

5 interesting facts about Richard Rogers

1. Richard Rogers is an Italian-born British Architect. He was born in Florence, Italy in 1933

2. When Rogers attended school he could not read and when he had his first child he found out he was diagnosed with dyslexia

3. Rogers was the architect responsible for designing the Lloyd’s Building in London and the Pompidou Centre in Paris

4. rOGERS WAS KNIGHTED IN 1991 AND WAS CREATED bARON rOGERS OF rIVERSIDE IN 1996.

5. rOGERS WAS AWARDED THE riba rOYAL gOLD mEDAL IN 1985 AND WAS ALSO APPOINTED AS A Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Engineering in 2006.

My Opinion on Richard Rogers

The reason why I like these building is because of the way he designed the Lloyd’s building in London, he designed the building with different shapes using straight lines and curved lines.

Cityscapes

tHESE ARE MY OWN CITYSCAPE IMAGES OF THE CITY SKYLINE.

These are photos of the high street including shops and houses.

TokyoSydney Shanghai

Barcelona

Chicago Canary Wharf, London

Toronto Johannesburg Auckland

Primary Research TripFriday 23rd September 2016

These are my illustrations of St Paul’s Cathedral, Canary Wharf and The Shard.

I took these pictures from the Tate Modern with the camera on my phone, I also captured a picture of a building on the way to the gallery. The pictures I took shows the Shard, Canary Wharf, The Gherkin hidden behind another building and a cramped image of St Paul’s Catherdal.

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This is my high street illustration

This is my Eboy Cityscape

The reason why my building structure was wrong because the top flap was too short.

This are my 3 pictures of my building sculpture.

tHE THINGS THAT WENT WELL WAS THAT i WAS ABLE TO MAKE THE SHAPE OF THE NET AND i WAS ABLE TO CUT AROUND THE NET USING THE KNIFE AND THE RULER. tHE MOST DIFFICULT PART WAS THE FOR THE FIRST BUILDING THE TOP FLAP WAS TOO SHORT SO i HAD TO MAKE IT BIGGER IN ORDER FOR THE FLAP TO FIT THE EDGES. tHE OTHER PROBLEMS i HAD WAS SCORING THE LINES BECAUSE THE PARTS KEPT COMING OFF SO i HAD TO DO IT AGAIN.