21th Century Buildings

The works by 21th Century Architects can be truthfully characterized by the term “abstraction”. Their works involve abstraction within a light-motive that is the sign of architecture where they reflects the work’s characteristics that they finds less substantial. Abstraction can be also found in their work with basic geometric figures and in their register of the simple means of expression. 21th Century Architecture tries to distract from traditional metaphors as much as possible and prefers the artistic features of the geometric abstraction as well as the monumentality of the simple shape.

Poseidon Undersea Hotel in Istanbul

Located in Istanbul, this 7 stars hotel worked by Tanriverdi Holding and need $500 million to complete the project will give its guests a new view of the famous city of Istanbul. It is due to open in 2010, and will coincide with its Culture Capital of Europe nomination and lay down a gauntlet as a world capital of tourism.

Floating Houseboat in Dubai

This leisure home is built on top of two catamaran beams to make it stable, and the whole building covers 220 sqm of floor area mixing the use of a concealed kitchen, living room, an informal dining area, bedrooms, bathroom, steering cabin, and terrace.

Aerohotel, a hotel on any water area

Russian based architect Alexander Asadov offers deconstructivist concept called ‘Aerohotel’ that can be implemented anywhere in the world from reservoirs to oceans. Covering 200 m wide, the floating Aerohotel hotel supported by three ‘arms’ and mix the function of hotel, cafes, restaurants, and winter garden.

Transbay Transit Center Project in San Francisco

The Transbay Transit Center is a $4 billion project to replace the current Transbay Terminal with a multi-modal transit center serving ten transportation systems. Located in downtown San Francisco, the new terminal will serve both bus and rail and will include a 5.4 acre rooftop park.

Munch Museum in Oslo

The museum will be made visible in the city through a powerful intersection in the building structure. This intersection will be located in the Opera Street and connect the Station Common and the Akerselva Common. In this intersection the areas for the general public and some exhibition spaces will be visible; the museum’s interior will become a part of the city’s exterior. The intersection will also create a hall that will function as an arena for changing artistic events. The new Museum will present itself with accessibility and visibility of art/artistic events.

Multifunctional Building in Miami

The design of a highrise building has been proposed by Kobi Karp for Miapolis. Located in Miami, the building would be almost 200 metres higher than the current world’s tallest building ‘Burj Khalifa‘. When completed (though not sure when it would start), it would stand 975 metre tall to house an amusement park, observatory, restaurants, 1.96 million sq ft of shops, over 1000 apartments, 1 million sq ft office space and a 792 room hotel.

Sustainable and Comfortable Zero House

Designed by Scott Specht, the Zero House able to generate its own electrical power by utilizing solar panels. And it also deploys a rainwater collection plane to collects its own water so doesn’t need electric pumps that consumes much energy. Other features include organic waste converter and automatic controller.

Mobile Art Container in Hong Kong

The form of the Chanel Pavilion is a celebration of the iconic work of Chanel. The resulting structure is very much inspired by the work -elegant, functional, and versatile both in its overall structure and detail. The architectural structure of the Pavilion is a series of continuous arch-shaped elements, with a courtyard in its central space. The size of the Pavilion will be 29m x 45m, a total of 700sqm. The overall height is 6m, with the floor raised 1.00m above the existing ground surface. The Contemporary art container is set to travel across cities worldwide including Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, Moscow, London and Paris. In light of the extensive shipping between cities, each structural segment will be a maximum of 2,25m wide and the steel structure can be built in under one week, which is essential for an ephemeral pavilion. Reflective materials allow the exterior skin to be illuminated with varying colours which can be tailored to the differing programmes of special events in each city. The total fluidity of the Chanel Pavilion’s curvilinear geometries is an obvious continuation of Hadid’s 30-years of exploration and research into systems of continuous transformations and smooth transitions.

Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi

The dropping of the temperature to several degrees below zero in Jukkasjärvi marks the start of an ephemeral art endeavour. Using only frozen water form the Torne River, artists from all over the world gather in this small Swedish village, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, to create an exclusive art exhibition.

Mobile living

In this era, there are so many jobs that require frequency moving, and this condition challenging architects and designers to design a comfortable mobile housing or motor home. Other condition such as the high land prices also make the mobile housing is a great solution in certain area such as Southern California. And interestingly GMC submitted the GMC PAD design concept to the California Design Challenge . The GMC PAD is described as a mobile urban loft aimed to ease the difficulties of living in Southern California. And interestingly, the PAD coming with sustainable approach to reduce the cost of gas.

REN Building in Shanghai

Designed by Copenhagen based group of architects, BIG, the REN Building is expected to be a recognizable landmark for the 2010 World Expo in Shangai, China. As you can see in the image, the building is shaped by two buildings that unite on the water. The building will mix-use the function of hotel, sports and conference center.

Shimizu Mega City Pyramid in Tokyo

Such a city of the future is a so-called arcology – a construction built along architectural design principles aimed toward creation of enormous habitats (hyperstructures) of extremely high human population density. The word “arcology” derives from a combination of “architecture” and “ecology”, and refers to what architect Paulo Soleri calls a “hyperstructure”: a self-contained structure containing a variety of residential and commercial facilities, possibly economically self-sufficient. There are various types of arcologies, but the Shimizu Pyramid City Project in Tokyo is one of the most advanced and incorporates the whole set of innovative solutions: starting from special robots to construct those pyramids…

Space Architecture

UK Goverment encourages young people to prepare theirself to gain the skill and training in the field of space architecture. This field is predicted to be in high demand in coming years and likely to be a fast growing industry by 2030. But if you watch the movie James Cameron’s Avatar, I think we don’t need to touch anything in the Moon Pandora, it’s simply beautiful by nature.

Huaxi City Center in Guiyang, China

The masterplan of Huaxi City Center was designed by MAD. And to develop each part of the masterplan, MAD invited young international architect to collaborate with. It was happen last summer in three-day workshop with unique design approach and result. After 15 years of urban development in China, they want an alternative future for the next cities. One thing that they avoided is copying the skyline of Western cities such in Manhattan and Chicago.

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