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The Architecture Of The Future Is Far More Spectacular Than You Could Imagine
“Architecture is shaping our lives in ways we don’t even
realize,” says architect Marc Kushner in his talk at TED2014.
Co-founder of Architizer, an online
catalog of architecture projects worldwide, Kushner is dedicated to
connecting people with the structures in which they spend their lives.
Structures can inspire feelings like strength and power and
stability, Kushner says, but they can also inspire discomfort,
isolation, and — in some cases — public outrage. “Building things is
terrifying,” he says, “it’s expensive, it takes a long time, and it’s
very complicated.”
"Every great architect is -- necessarily -- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age." Those are the words of one undeniably great architect, Frank Lloyd Wright,
whose visions of harmonious design and innovating urban planning amounted to his own brand of organic architecture. We'd argue that Wright wasn't just an interpreter of his time -- he was able to foresee the needs and desires of ages ahead of him. The architect is - necessarily - a visionary capable of seeing into the future.
I watched a lot of "The Jetsons" when I was growing up, so I had pretty big expectations for the future, including its homes. George Jetson and his family lived in a bubble-shaped, high-rise apartment building set on tall, thin columns, with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and lots of metal beams.
1. Hypnotic Bridges
Why craft boring suspension bridges or arched overpasses when humanity is capable of building massive architectural feats like this to cross a river? The impressive, undulating design, destined to function as a pedestrian footbridge over the Dragon King Harbour River in China, is the product of NEXT Architects. The bridge design involves three individual, swirling lanes hovering over the picturesque landscape of Changsha.2. Invisible Architecture
Invisible architecture is the calling card of science fiction design,
and we're happy to report that architects of today are on the case. Of
course, there's South Korea's in-the-works, LED-clad Infinity Tower. CNN
reported in 2013 that "the invisibility illusion will be achieved with a high-tech LED facade system that uses a series of cameras that will send real-time images onto the building's reflective surface."
3. Agora, Spinning Tower of Taipei
Vincent Callebaut Architectures is the artist behind this magnificent green eco-building.
Unique design and a lot of green trees all over the place is one of the
big points this tower has. The designer aim not only elegant and modern
type of millennium building, but also an ecological touch with adding
green trees and even an aquarium under your foot. Agora Tower scheduled
to be finished on 2016 in Xinyin District, Taipei, Taiwan. Here are images and designer’s line about this 42.335.34 square meters tower.
Architecture is largely a discipline that sits on stilts, away from the flood-lands of the people that use it in everyday life. These supports,
which keep the art and science of building design (and, to some extent,
the appreciation of buildings themselves) accessible primarily to
card-carrying intellectuals, were erected, consciously or otherwise, in
the last forty years by a team of masterful thinkers and artists
(starchitects like Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid) and journalists who are quick to glamorize the field (like, say, by using terms like "st-architects").
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