(karaian– flickr/creative commons license) Artist Olafur Eliasson and Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta designed the . Similarities can be seen with the Oslo Opera House which the two collaborated on as well. Metal clads a timber structure in a …
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(London Chow– flickr/creative commons license) Jean Nouvel designed the One New Change shopping centre next to St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, UK. Important paths of travel, views, and gathering places wrinkle the form of the 220,000ft2 building, most notably the …
(Loz Flowers– flickr/creative commons license) French architect Jean Nouvel designed the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 in London, England. Bold geometric planes rise softly from the city toward the park, overlapping each other. The steel and polycarbonate forms form a box …
(Magnus D– flickr/creative commons license) Swiss architect Peter Zumthor designed the 2011 Serpentine Park Pavilion in London, England. The black rectangular structure introduces itself in the human-built natural setting as a timber framed structure of gauze and black Idenden over …
David Chipperfield designed the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate UK, completed in April 2011. Snøhetta was the original architect but their plans were scrapped after the location and cost were criticized. It was moved away from the harbor and the …
(yellow book– flickr/creative commons license) Arne Jacobsen designed St Catherine’s College in the University of Oxford, near Cherwell river. Alan Bullock established the college in 1962 with these glass and concrete Modernist buildings. Attention to detail extended to furniture and …
These illustrations of the Early English Gothic Cathedral in Peterborough England were drawn by Clavell Ingram in the book Peterborough cathedral by Herbert Railton. It was published in 1894… See book here…
(Reading Tom– flickr/creative commons license) Allies and Morrison architects designed the Blue Fin Building on 110 Southwark, London England. It was completed in 2008 near the Tate Modern. It has 2,000 blue fins as shading devices on the exterior facades. …
(mattbuck4950– flickr/creative commons license) Nicholas Grim Shaw and Arup engineers designed the National Space Center in Leicester UK. Minimal aluminum structure is covered by three EFTE layers. The cushy pillows are transparent to showcase the larger than life rockets inside. …
(Hunky Punk– flickr/creative commons license) The Early English Gothic Cathedral Church of St Peter in Peterborough England was first built in the 12th Century after an Anglo-Saxon church there was destroyed by Vikings. The original tower built in 966 gave …