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Centre Georges Pompidou Built in Paris between 1971 and 1977, the Pompidou Center is the proud home to a public library, the largest modern art museum in Europe (the Musée National d’Art Moderne), and a top-of-the-league music and acoustics study center. Piano built the structure as an over-the-top ode to high-tech architecture in which he strives to reveal a building’s inner workings and technological marvels that typically remain hidden beneath its surface. Parco della Musica Considered one of the most-visited music facilities in the world, Rome’s Parco della Musica was designed by Piano on the same grounds of the 1960 Summer Olympic Games. The facilities comprise three massive dome-like structures that hold three separate concert halls. One unique note about the construction: in forging new ground, Piano and co found remains of the old. The construction process unearthed an ancient Italian villa that Renzo Piano decided to include in his designs. The Shar...

From 1916 to 2002. Kanvinde    plays with space and forms. His designs are slender, balanced, proportionate, neat and well crafted.     The building is important but most important is the gate of the user. Example is “Isckon   Temple”.   He gave much    more importance to the natural light. He gave such a form to the building that it can solve the problem of ventilation as well as excessive heat . He believed in Vernacular Architecture. He believed    that the image should be such that can set the mood and interest for which the building stands for. Both inherent    values and historical influences contributed towards good architecture. An art can be to nourish the senses. Art is purely an aesthetic exercise. He believed    that a grid of columns    forming a matrix giving structural   and spatial aspect would turn a   design to more sophisticated and   faceted. He treated his bui...

Tadao Ando's Only UK project,  the ‘Japanese Pavilion’ at  Piccadilly Gardens  in  Manchester is scheduled to be demolished as apart of € 10m redesigning of the park and plaza. Built in 2002the pavilion takes the form of a long, gray concrete wall along the park’s southwestern edge, which critics have argued divide the public space, describing the design as “bleak and depressing” and comparing it to the Berlin Wall. The plans follow several years of public calls to reinvasion the gardens. Six months ago, a 20,000-signature petition to knock down the wall was presented to the   Manchester   city council. In 2013, Ando himself admitted that the project could use some livening up,   suggesting covering the structure in greenery .

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet  ( 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) A   Spanish   Catalan   architect from   Reus   and the best known practitioner of   Catalan Modernism . Gaudí's works reflects an individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in   Barcelona , including his   magnum opus , the   Sagrada Família . Gaudi’s style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous colour and texture, and organic unity. He worked almost entirely in or near   Barcelona . Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Família), which was unfinished at his death in 1926. The architectural work of Gaudí is remarkable for its range of forms, textures, and polychromy and for the free, expressive way in which these elements of his   art   seem to be composed. The complex geometries of a Gaudí   building   so coincide with its architectural structure that the w...

Jeddah Tower , a soon-to-be tallest building in world, leaving behind the  2,722 ft tall Burj Khalifa. The tower, being constructed in  Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, will stand at least 3,280 feet tall and is designed by  Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture  of Chicago .It was supposed to be a mile tall i.e. 1.6km but due to geological limits will not be possible, Now it is said to be constructed about a km tall which if achieved will be the first building to reach this mark. 1.  The structure  will be home to the world’s highest observatory. It will also have a separate, 98-foot-diameter outdoor balcony, which was originally intended to be a helipad. 2.  The building is so big that they were unable to show it realistically in one rendering. Only elevations and birds-eye views can contain the entire project. Imagine those construction drawings. 3.  Foundation piles are about 10 feet in diameter ( that's my room size)  ...

Delhi,  The capital of India, have from the times immemorial faced huge problems,  be it violence against women,  murders,  illegal immigration, corruption, etc. And this time its pollution.  Delhi already was among the top most polluted cities in world, and now the pollution has crossed all the past records. You will find masked people everywhere on the streets. The Air Quality Index (AQI) has crossed the hazardous mark of 500+. The level of particulate matter PM10 on Sunday reached at 1690 umg/m3 at 8 am in Anand Vihar and 1,300 umg/m3 at 6 pm in central government employees’ residential colony RK Puram. It’s multiple times higher than the permissible limits (50-100). “The air pollution level in Delhi has reached a stage where people should evacuate the city. The AQI has crossed the hazardous level of 500 and now touching almost 1,000. It’s unimaginable,” said Ravi Agarwal, director, Toxics Link, an environmental NGO. According to...