Architecture Now
Royal Ontario Museum extension
The Royal Ontario Museum is a learning and exhibition centre as well as an important educational facility for many schools in and around Toronto. It consists of several buildings constructed between the 1920s and the 1980s, and in the summer of 2007, a new building extension will be completed. Designed by Daniel Libeskind this is […]
Light transmitting concrete
How can a concrete wall transmit inside the building the silhouettes of trees or passersby? By adding optical fibers to the mix. The world’s most popular building material, combined with an array of glass fibers creates a new material which seems to be porous because of it’s capability of transmitting light. The optical fibers, used […]
National Assembly for Wales
A little bell shape going out from an impressive roof, comes cascading into a dramatic form, looking like the trunk of a tree which supports the roof and guides the eye to the lower levels. Here you can find a public space that lets everyone have a glance on what’s going on in The Debating […]
Rolling bridge
A straight, steel structure, 12 m long, looking plain and simple, is it just another boring urban element? Not this one. Thomas Heatherwick imagined a hydraulic structure that curls up, from a conventional pedestrian platform till it becomes a circular sculpture sitting on a bank in Paddington Basin, London. If you see it in this […]
Glass bubbles house
It’s a small apartment building and it’s almost all covered in glass bubbles. It consists of 13 apartments divided in two blocks, connected on each floor by an atrium. In front of the reinforced concrete structural core, 7,900 blown glass spheres form the playful design of this building. The green glass bubbles are all handmade […]
Bridging Teahouse
It’s one of the 16 pavilions, in the Jinhua Architecture Park. Created by the young, Mexican architect, Fernando Romero, The Bridging Teahouse, situated next to a water pond, uses its natural site to show an interesting concept. The pavilion tries to unify two of the most common features of a traditional Chinese garden: the […]
