NORMEN FOSTER
Modernism gets its good name back from Norman Foster..
By the 1970s, Modernism had declined into a realm of boxy
clichs.
Sir Norman Fosters buildings have dynamic appearance and
yet very environmentally aware.
Designs are environmentally friendly.
His design process includes ways to reduce elements that are
harmful to the environment.
Each detail is carefully planned ,space is always taken into consideration.
Fosters designs have many bold shapes and
uses colour to enhance and emphasize his work includes
- everything from door handles and tables to airports, bridges,
and office buildings.
He was one of the architects who turned things around by proving that to
make good buildings, it would not be necessary to abandon the
principles of Modernismclear structure, lucid formsbut simply to
apply them with new rigor and imagination.
THEREICHSTAG
DOME
a glass dome, constructed on top
rebuilt Reichstag building, Berlin in 1993.
: is
of
the
The distinctive appearance of the dome has made it
a prominent landmark in Berlin.
The dome is open to the public and can be reached
by climbing two steel, spiraling ramps that are The Dome symbolizes that the
reminiscent of a double-helix.
people are above the government
This dome funnels light into the building during the daytime.
Dome is completely transparent ,suggesting that democracy
should be transparent and inviting.
Use of high-technology, all of the elements in
the building were computer tested and even the dome was
subjected to computer wind simulations in order to maximize
space and minimize excess.
Its power station also burns a special linseed fuel mixture,
based on corn oil, not fossil fuels,
minimizing energy
consumption.
He doesnt limit himself in the design world to just one field,
Fosters advances in the design has allowed him to alter many architectural rules.
Foster has been the architect behind some of the most famous additions to the global
skyline, including the Swiss Re headquarters in London that everybody calls the
Gherkin and rebuilt the Reichstag (199299) in Berlin.
Conceptual sketches by
30 ST MARY AXE: has a radical approach - technically, architecturally, Normen Foster
socially and spatially.
Height to top of dome: 179.8 m
Idea of having a city within a city.
It was completed in December 2003
The tower is aerodynamically designed to reduce
wind load on the structure, whilst the lower part tapers
so that wind wraps around the tower.
An instantly recognizable
Ramps lead to an
observation platform,
Generated by a circular plan, with a radial geometry, addition to the citys
allowing people to
the building widens in profile as it rises and tapers Skyline.
At its core is a 'light sculptor' that reflects
interior view of
ascend
symbolically
towards its apex.
horizon light down into the chamber,
the Reichstag
above the heads of
This distinctive form responds to the constraints of the site: the
while a sun-shield tracks the path of the
dome.
their representatives in
building appears more slender than a rectangular block of equivalent
sun to block solar gain and glare.
the chamber.
size and the slimming of its profile towards the base maximizes the
public realm at street level.
At night the mirrors,
Diagrid responds to the building's curved shape
which bring daylight into the chamber work in reverse by
shape of the tower
and provides vertical support to the floors thus
acting as a signal on the skyline to show that Parliament was
is influenced by
allowing large internal column free office space.
in session.
Night view
the physical
environment of
Diagrid frame
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the city
by:
Saumya
Silvanee
sushrita
HIGH-TECH
ARCHITECTURE
Rem Koolhaas
Born: 17 November 1944 (age 71)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Rem Koolhaas is an internationally renowned architect
who has built diverse post-modern structures.
Koolhaas was influenced by post-modern Japanese
architectural theory as well as his experience in
reconstruction and invention in the Netherlands and
Indonesia.
Growing up in this period of rebuilding gave Koolhaas
the understanding that architecture had to accommodate
modern needs. It left an indelible impression on him, and
he understood the importance of planning architecture
and accommodating architecture to the needs of a
global world.
The Seattle Public Library's Central Library is the
flagship library of The Seattle Public Library system.
The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and
steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was
opened to the public on Sunday, May 23, 2004
CCTV Headquarters
CCTV Headquarters
Alternative name: China
Central TV Headquarters
Central Chinese Television
Tower.
Location: East Third Ring Road
Guanghua Road Beijing, China.
Architect: Rem Koolhaas and Ole
Scheeren of OMA were the
architects in charge for the building.
The CCTV Headquarters is a 234 m (768 ft), 44story skyscraper on East Third Ring Road,
Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business
District (CBD).
The tower serves as headquarters for China Central
Television(CCTV) that was formerly at the China
Central Television Building located at 11 Fuxin Road
Sectional elevation of the
some 15 km (9.3 mi) to the west.
Seattle public library.
The CCTV Headquarters won the
2013 Best Tall Building Worldwide
The architects conceived the new Central Library
from the Council on Tall Buildings
building as a celebration of books, deciding after
and Urban Habitat
some research that despite the arrival of the 21st
century and the "digital age," people still respond to
books printed on paper.
Zoning of CCTV
The architects also worked to make the library
Headquaters
inviting to the public, rather than stuffy, which they
Koolhaas reinvented the skyscraper with his Beijing
discovered was the popular perception of libraries
as a whole.
headquarters for CCTV.
Although the library is
The buildings two towers
an unusual shape from
are connected by a 246-foot
the
outside,
the
cantilevered section known
architects' philosophy
as the Overhang.
was
to
let
the
The exterior is sheathed in
building's
required
sun-shaded glass with a
functions dictate.
Zoning of Seattle ublic
striking pattern of triangulated
The Seattle Public Library
Type: Public Library
Location: 1000 Fourth
Avenue, Seattle,
Washington
Design and
construction
Architect: Rem
Koolhaas
and Joshua
Seattle
Central
Library
Prince-Ramus
of from
Exterior,
as seen
OMA/LMN
Fifth
Avenue
The 362,987 square feet (33,722.6 m2) public
library can hold about 1.45 million books and other
materials, features underground public parking for
143 vehicles, and includes over 400 computers
open to the public.
It is the third Seattle Central
Library building to be located
on the same site at 1000 Fourth
Avenue, the block bounded by
Fourth and Fifth Avenues and
Madison and Spring Streets.
View of Seattle public
The library has a library from Forth
unique,
striking Avenues and Madison
appearance, consisting street.
of
several
discrete
"floating
platforms"
seemingly wrapped in a
large steel net around
glass skin.
Desig
n
Design
Library
steel tubes, which form part of
the support structure.
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by:
Silvanee
Sushrita
Saumya
