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Kevin
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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject: best new buildings since 2000? |
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We're planning to add a few of the very best recent buildings, a handful for each of the years 2001 to 2007, to the Great Buildings Collection, aka GreatBuildings.com:
http://www.GreatBuildings.com/
What buildings from these recent years do you love the most? What new buildings seem to be most worthy of broad and long-term appreciation?
GreatBuildings is a curated collection of a thousand great, beautiful, instructive structures from around the world and across history, and also the web's most visited general architecture web site with a million visitors a month. Buildings at GreatBuildings deserve to be known by architects and architecture fans everywhere.
Probably many of the likely candidates can be found somewhere among these articles:
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/articles/design_articles.html
And maybe in here:
http://www.architectureweek.com/articles/news_articles.html
Anyway, what are a few buildings you think are among the best of the last six years? |
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Landy
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I still have to check the actual dates when this buildings opened but here is a list of what I consider some of the best building I've seen in person.
from #1 best to #10 most popular
#1 American Folk Art Museum by Tod Williams and Billy Tsien
#2 The Gugenheim Museum in Bilbao by Frank O. Gehry
#3 The World Bank Headquarters by Kohn Pedersen and Fox
#4 Palacio de Congresos Kursaal by Rafael Moneo
#5 Burj Dubai skyscraper, SOM
#6 Prada flagship store in SoHo NY by Rem Koolhaas
#7 Burj Dubai Hotel "sail boat", United Arab Emirates
#8 The Palm at Jumeirah "land reclamation" United Arab Emirates
#9 Armed Forces Recruiting offices Broadway, NY by ARO
#10 Ronald Reagan Airport anex Washington DC, Cesar Pelli |
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mx2
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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I pick:
Bigelow Chapel designed by Joan Soranno.
It's simple, innovative in use of material and yet quietly elegant. The first time I read about it I was in...spired.
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lekizz
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:56 am Post subject: |
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The Senedd/Assembly Building by Richard Rogers, in Cardiff Wales (completed 2005) has to be an absolute must for inclusion
Edit: the Architecture Week article is incorrect. The National Assembly for Wales is the governing body of Wales, not the name of the building. |
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