A series of tall and phenomenal architecture and buildings in youtube

A series of tall and phenomenal buildings in youtube. Collections of 100 stories and higher buildings in very futuristic design. The video really open our eyes about now architecture and the achievement of mankind.

The National Art Center in Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa - Youtube Architecture Collection

Start from today, I will make 'Youtube Architecture Collection' about famous architects and their work as well as recent news about architecture in youtube communities.

First, is the National Art Center in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kisho Kurokawa. See the beautiful glass facade building from outside and inside.



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Green architecture award: Green Villa and Tower in Almere, Netherlands

The green residential building complex designed by Faro Architecten BV has won a competition to design an urban villas and residential tower of Almere, Netherlands. 57 residences are in the tower and the green balconies will serve as public space.

Completed with photovoltaic and PCM panels, this building will save energy throughout the year. The gardens of the tower will live with rain collected water.

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Flexible Tre Table

Tre Table;
Flexible modern desk that has some more function than just being a desk, it is formed of continuous sheet of wood. Making it possible to be used as coffee table, dinner tray, computer desk, or laptop stand.

Contemporary house in Dallas, Texas, photographed by jmcminn

Beautiful pictures in Flickr by Jmcminn, houses in the woods of Dallas, Texas that shine.


This house uses glass a lot, the contemporary design blends very well with the nature as we can see here.


There's not much description in the flickr album, but thank you so much for sharing with all of us!

Conceptual seed of future buildings, by Brittany Bell

Britany Bell, an architecture student in University of Victoria, New Zeland, has made her basic concepts of design. In this design concept she create seed concept may appear in her next design.

Basically, the idea is the concept of plants that grow in the city. Brittany Bell write in the text;

Each year, more and more types of plants that become extinct or endangered. The New Zealand government has proposed the idea to create the archives to seed the Pacific home to the original plant and preserve them for future generations.

 

Brittany describe that architecture of the future is unpredictable, and therefore there is a need to design buildings that can move and grow like plants in the changing environment and ecosystem. Basically she take the form of bone from the plant's 'cytoskeleton'. From this basic concept it can be further developed in response to building environment and grow with, such as adapting the rainfall, making forms of protection as a wing. These structures can even move to accommodate such protection.

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Postmodern architecture icon: Piazza d'Italia. Virtual tour in google streetview

This building is one of the many postmodern icon featured in the world of modern architecture. Using the idiom of modern architecture combined with various elements of classical architecture in eclectic style, this architecture was to bring back the memory of the past to the future, in a context that can be accepted as a filler of 'emptiness' as a result of modern architecture that is too functional. This is because, the old buildings in the immigrants settlement complex from Italy needed a touch a new life for the building does not reflect the culture of Italy. 



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In the postmodern world, sometimes a building needed to appear its identity in a way like this, because it has an identity that can not be provided by the uniformity of modern architecture. In Piazza d'Italy, elements in the architecture that grew up in Italy, appear to be part of the new refreshed piazza of the complex, such as the emergence of the doric collumns, Corinthian, and ionic and placed in an informal way, in almost a humorous way connected to the elements of the new sculpture.

Building in the Piazza is a gateway to enter the complex and residential area that the recipient has a cultural identity. Its plan form a circle, with a pool, and derivative 'flat' map of Italy in the pond that shows the close relationship between Sicilian people and sea water.



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The existence of this architecture in the Piazza, can be categorized as Sculpture, where the architecture appears as a fragment of the past that are withdrawn again in the context of modern living and located in a place far from Italy, as will reconnect fragments of memory in new clothes.

A Texas Modern House by Morrison Seifert Murphy Architects

This house by Morrison Seifert Murphy Architects is one modern house with great collaboration with the surrounding nature.

Planned in U-shape, this house turns its back toward the noisy thoroughfare and open to a courtyard, while preserving the trees to give some shades under the blue Texas sky.

Being the first modern home in its neighbourhood, the house blend itself with nature by its dark, gray-green color, as well as to avoid being overpowering the surrounding environment.

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‘Madison Avenue (Doll)House’, Calvin Klein's holiday seasonal decoration [close in January 5th]

Fashion designers and architects having collaboration and one vision is more common, this time Calvin Klein collaborates with REX Architecture for one of their seasonal decoration in New York. This Holiday display is a window display with an ultra-modern dollhouse as the central focus.

Joshua Prince-Ramos stands in front of his design ‘Madison Avenue (Doll)House’

It is a collaboration arranged by Dale Rozmiarek, Senior vice president of creative services for Calvin Klein, Inc. REX Architecture designed the Doll house with engineering my Magnusson Klemencic Associates and fabrication by Situ Studio.

“By treating a New York street like landscape—and Calvin Klein's storefront like a New York street—we created a detached single-family dollhouse in Manhattan for the Calvin Klein woman,” said architect Prince-Ramus. “Undeniably frivolous, the ‘Madison Avenue (Doll)House’ still suggests a kernel of an idea for accommodating growth in existing population centers.”

This design reveals a futuristic concept of home for modern, urban living, and addressing the use and importance of space. Completed with interior furnishings of miniature replicas from the company's apparel, accessory, and home lines. This work will be showcased throughout the holiday season and set to close on January 5.

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Museum design: The Wing Luke Asian Museum, in Seattle's Chinatown International distric

The Wing Luke Asian Museum, in Seattle's Chinatown International distric, designed by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects. This Museum has been built to meet the art and neighbourhood need of social center and exhibit spaces for art and performances of surrounding neighbourhood, as well as attracting interest of Asian culture.

This design was formely a 1910 multi story building for social center for Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants. Using timber and steel as main building materials, it preserves the character and scale of the building.

This might be your favourite book: Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

Released in November 2008, The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary WOrld Architecture is a comprehensive discovery of contemporary works around the globe, that provide us with collection of building database. It is devided into six world regions, and provide a great overview of global and local trend in architecture. It displays the world in six regions, with unique urban and architectural issues for each region, completed with statistical data that has been analyzed by the London School of economics.

 

Example building in the book. CCTV Beijing.

There are 1000 more buildings data completed since the year 2000, from a rigorous selection process from a panel of advisors in each region. This book is completed with series of illustration drawings and photography.

Sagrada Familia by Gaudi; visual tour. Google streetview architecture collection

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Sagrada Familia (1883 - ) is one of the biggest and most glorious Gothic church at its time. Modern architecture is modernized by Gaudi in more complicated, bigger, with more than 12 towers. The average height is 100m, the central part is bigger and taller. The work is still in progress, even until now. Sagrada Familia was first designed by Franciso Paula del Villar in 1882 in a cross formed plan. The next year Gaudi took over the work and change it into his design.


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Because of this very ambitious project, Gaudi died in the year 1926 from being hit by a tram car in front of the church. Sagrada Familia has 4 towers already with work still in progress. Gaudi's design is full of ornaments, making some debate whether he was a sculpturer or decorator, rather than an architect. There are many natural forms like the forms of trees, stones, caves, stalactide, and other natural forms.