11 Incredible Buildings From The Future

1.James Law Cybertecture International designed this 32,000 square-meter Cybertecture Egg, commissioned by Vijay Associate (Wadhwa Developers) for Mumbai, India.

2.Graft Lab's architects created this energy-efficient Vertical Village, to be built in Dubai, with the most advanced solar panels and cells to maximize solar energy production.

3.ACME, a design firm, submitted this stunning hive-like design to South Korea's design competition, which called for designs for a memorial space in a United Nations Peace Park. Individual cells are combined to form this cube structure.

4.Architect David Fisher designed a skyscraper made up of pre-fabricated floors that can each rotate independently, resulting in a tower whose shape is able to constantly change. Each floor can complete a full rotation in 90 minutes. Residents, if they own the entire floor, are able to control the speed and direction of the rotation by voice command: wake up watching the sunrise, have dinner watching the sunset.

5.Vincent Callebaut's architects designed the "Dragonfly" vertical farm for the New York City skyline. The 132-floor, 2,000 foot-tall structure (resembling a dragonfly's wing) would contain residences, offices, farming space, and even areas dedicated to growing and studying both produce and livestock.

6.Atkins' five-star resort hotel set would be set inside a water-filled quarry in the Songjiang, China. The 400-bed hotel would include underwater public areas and guestrooms. An extreme sports center, offering rock climbing and bungee jumping, would be suspended over the quarry.

7.Crescent Hydropolis, currently being constructed in Dubai, will be the world's first luxury underwater hotel. To enter the 200 submarine suites, guests will arrive at a land station, then be transported via train to the main area of the hotel offshore. The 1.1-million-square-foot area will include a shopping mall, restaurants, movie theaters, and missile-defense system, all 60-feet underwater.

8.Part rumor, part legend, the Cobra Tower is a vision for a twisted skyscraper that would adorn Kuwait's cityscape.

9.Design Act designed this incredible building, made up of permutated cubes, for the World Expo 2010 Singapore Pavilion competition.

10.Daniel Libeskind conceived this striking skyscraper for Gazprom City, St. Petersburg.

11.Zaha Hadid's Performing Arts Center will form part of a multi-billion dollar cultural district in Abu Dhabi. Hadid describes the structure as a “biological analogy”, with branch and leaf-like components that are “transformed from these abstract diagrams into architectonic design.”

ARCHITECTURE, "the most useful of the fine arts and the finest of the useful arts," may be defined as the art of ornamental construction ; not ornamental in the sense of decorated but in harmony of distribution of mass, in beauty of proportion. For all its vast variety, it is based on three simple constructive principles.

The first is the lintel, in which two uprights support a crosspiece, the form seen in the majestic temples of Egypt and the classic beauty of the art of Greece.

The second is the arch or vault, the use of which was perfected by the Romans and which is characteristic of Roman architecture and its derivatives for the spanning of large spaces.

The third principle is the truss or compound beam, made up of several subordinate members, each one of which is intended to resist a particular stress, which is seen in its highest development in the modern steel bridge.

These three principles have guided the development of the art in every land, but their incorporation in the typical architecture of each nation has been influenced by the three great formative factors of race, climate and religion.

These factors have conjoined to produce certain well defined styles, or varied phases of the art, which are commonly taken as the basis for architectural classification. The architecture of Egypt is the oldest now extant, and with it the story of the art in this little book opens. Almost contemporaneously with Egyptian architecture another style arose in Mesopotamia, and both of them influenced the architecture of the Greeks.

The Romans in turn applied the Greek details to the arched construction of the Etruscans. After the division of the Roman Empire the Byzantine school arose in the East and inspired the Mohammedan or Saracenic style, which swept westward through northern Africa into Spain and eastward into India.

In northern and western Europe, meanwhile, an evolution from the Roman basilica culminated in the Gothic style of the Middle Ages.

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Gothic gradually gave place to the Renaissance style, a revival of Roman forms. Other styles arose in India, China and Japan, and among the Aztecs and Incas of America, but they have had little influence on the modern electric architecture of the West, which is based almost entirely on the styles which had their origin in Europe.

What is Architecture?

Architecture is the imaginative blend of art and science in the design of environments for people. People need places to eat, work, live and play. Architects transform these needs into concepts and then develop the concepts into building images that can be constructed by others. These projects can be as small as an entrance way and as large as an entire college campus—and everything in between.

An architect serves in a leadership role to bring together the design and budgetary requirements set by the client, restraints of a site (where the building will be constructed), needs of the building’s users, and the limitations of materials into a unique and balanced design solution. Decision-making, team leadership and creativity are the key elements of making architecture.

Succinctly put, an architect is a licensed professional with specialized skills who designs buildings and cityscapes and helps make real the unique vision of their clients and communities.

The Colosseum

The Colosseum or, The Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering

Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum its construction started between 70 and 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81–96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).

Capable of seating 50,000 spectators,the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, execution, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical Mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medievel era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a forteruss, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.

Although in the 21st century it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome. It is one of Rome's most popular tourist attraction and still has close connections with the Roman Catholic church, as each Good Friday the Pope leads a torchlit'Way of the cross' procession that starts in the area around the Colosseum.

Burj Al Arab Tower of the Arabs '7-star' hotel

Architect:Tom Wright of Atkins
Location:Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Date:1994-1999
Constuction:321 m The Burj Al Arab is the world's tallest hotel. 5 stars* No. of rooms 202. The hotel cost $650 million to build.
Type:Hotel

The Burj Al Arab (Arabic: برج العرب, "Tower of the Arabs") is a luxury hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates managed by the Jumeirah Group and built by Said Khalil. It was designed by Tom Wright of WS Atkins PLC. At 321 metres (1,053 ft), it is the tallest building used exclusively as a hotel.[2] However, the Rose Tower, also in Dubai, which has already topped Burj Al Arab's height, will take away this title upon its opening in April 2008. The Burj Al Arab stands on an artificial island 280 metres (919 ft) out from Jumeirah beach, and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. It is an iconic structure, designed to symbolize Dubai's urban transformation and to mimic the billowing sail of a boat.

Burj Dubai the tallest tower in the world

Achitect:Architect Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Location: located at the "First Interchange"

Date:21 September 2004 completion 30 December 2008

Constuction:818 m (2,684 ft) Floor count 164 [1]

Burj Dubai (Arabic: برج دبي "Dubai Tower") is a supertall skyscraper currently under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. When it is completed in late 2008, it is predicted to be the tallest man-made structure in the world, as well as the tallest building by any measure. Scheduled for occupancy in September 2009, the building is part of a 2 km² (0.8 sq mi) development called 'Downtown Burj Dubai' and is located at the "First Interchange" (aka "Defence Roundabout") along Sheikh Zayed Road at Doha Street.

The building is being built mainly by a South Korean company Samsung, along with the Belgian company Besix and the UAE company Arabtec. It was designed by American Adrian Smith before he left Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) of Chicago to start his own independent practice, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in October 2006. However, SOM continues to lead the architectural, structural engineering and mechanical engineering of Burj Dubai. The total budget for the Burj Dubai project is about $4.1 billion US and for the entire new 'Downtown Burj Dubai', $20 billion US.