Futuristic architecture amazes many with its amazing and unusual design. The most interesting of futuristic buildings (some of them are still under construction, or their construction has not even begun) are collected in this ten:
10. Khan Shatyr
Khan Shatyr is already a reality! This is a huge transparent tent in the center of Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan. The building serves as a cultural center and a place for communication among city residents. The climate in Astana is quite harsh - in winter temperatures drop to -35 degrees Celsius.
9. Museum of Modern and Nuraghi Art
The Museum of Modern and Nuragic Art in Cagliari, Italy, held a design competition for their new building. The winner of the competition was a stunning 12,000 square meter project by architect Zaha Hadid.
8. Waves of Hangzhou
Hangzhou Waves is a five-star hotel and office project in Hangzhou, China. The project includes two buildings that complement each other.
7. Crescent Tower
Of course, Dubai couldn't help but make it onto this list. Crescent Tower is a concept design for a building in Zabeel Park that would represent the modernity of Dubai. The tower will have a library, conference rooms, restaurants and an open-air observation deck. Just don't forget about sandstorms!
6. Hotel in Songjiang
This striking hotel is to be built in a flooded quarry at the foot of Tianmashan Mountain in the Songjiang district of Shanghai. The hotel design is such that the original shape of the quarry will remain intact.
5. Nexus Media Center
The Nexus Media Center is another concept project for the United Arab Emirates, which is at the forefront of futuristic architecture. The building will primarily serve as information storage, but will also include a media center, exhibition spaces, offices, apartments and gardens.
4. Beijing International Airport
The third terminal of Beijing International Airport is amazing. Its construction was completed in 2009 - a little later than it was needed: it was originally planned for the Olympics in China. Occupying an area of 986,000 square meters, the terminal became the largest in the world.
3. Gardens by the Bay
Gardens by the Bay is a city park in Singapore. They already exist and accept visitors. The gardens were voted the best building in the world in 2012.
2. Lily
In an attempt to prepare humanity for a possible severe climate change scenario, a Belgian designer has developed a Floating Eco-City (also known as Lily) that will serve as a refuge for those affected by climate change. The city can float and is made up of three “mountains” that can accommodate 50 thousand people (it is not clear what to do with the rest of the people). The fact that the city can float on the surface of the water will help it withstand the consequences of continents being flooded with water from melting glaciers.
Futuristic architecture is a style of architecture that originated in Italy at the beginning of the twentieth century. Its characteristic features were anti-historicism, strong chromaticism, movement, lyricism, and long dynamic lines.
This direction in architecture is part of Futurism, an artistic movement created by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
It is worth noting that futurism is not so much an architectural style as an approach to architecture, a way of behavior and thinking. Today, this direction in architecture for most people is associated with strange architectural forms. Such famous buildings as the Space Needle (Seattle), Dean (Florida) and the Transamerica Pyramid (San Francisco) were built in a futuristic style. Also a striking example futuristic architecture is the Tumorrowland project (Disneyland, Anaheim).
The later group of Futurist architects included the Italian Antonio Sant'Elia, who was able to transfer Futurist ideas into the framework of urban construction. Since 1912, this architect began to create a series of his famous design drawings “New City” (“Citta Nuova”), in which he showed how, in his opinion, urban planning should look like in the new “technical” age. The most famous sketches of Antonio Sant'Elia were a sketch of a station for trains and airplanes (1914), and a drawing of an automobile plant in Lingotto (1928).
- Futuristic architecture is a form of architecture that appeared at the beginning of the 20th century in Italy. It was characterized by anti-historicism, strong chromaticism, long dynamic lines suggesting speed, movement, urgency and lyricism.
Futurist architecture is part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who wrote the first Futurist manifesto in 1909. The movement also attracted a number of architects. Futurist themes included the cult of the machine age and the glorification of war and violence.
The later group of Futurist architects included Antonio Sant'Elia, who translated the Futurist vision into urban forms. Between 1912 and 1914, he began a series of famous design drawings "New City" (Italian: Città Nuova), in which he created a unique, outstanding image of ideas about new technical age. The famous “Manifesto of Futurist Architecture” (Italian: Manifesto dell'architettura futurista) was published by the architect in August 1914.
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Since 2006, the American architectural magazine eVolo, specializing in publishing materials about modern technologies, innovations and developments in design, has been holding an annual competition of giant structures, Skyscraper Competition 2012. Architects, students, engineers, designers and artists from all over the world can take part in the competition . Today, this is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of high-rise architecture.
This is a forum that primarily examines the relationships and connections between giant structures and the surrounding natural world, people, and cities.
There are no restrictions for competition participants in choosing the location and size of their structures. Maximum freedom and the absence of strict requirements allow the creative ideas of the participants to reveal themselves most clearly.
eVolo magazine intends to continue to stimulate the imagination of designers around the world. Participants in the competition propose innovative architectural ideas that address economic and environmental issues, evoke different emotions and, perhaps, ultimately, can solve many of the problems that modern people face.
714 projects from all five continents and 95 countries took part in the Skyscraper Competition 2012. A competent jury consisting of famous architects, landscape designers, ecologists and winners of previous years selected 25 works by voting, three of which became winners of the competition.
3rd PLACE
Monument to Civilization (Project "Monument to Civilization")
Project authors: Lin Yu-Ta, Anne Schmidt (Taiwan)
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The “Monument of Civilization” project can be called terrifying, surprising, and making a deep impression. But other things in cities are also impressive, says the project designer: “Take, for example, New York - if in the area usually occupied by one skyscraper, we put all the garbage that the city produces annually, then we will get a 1300-meter building, which about three times taller than the Empire State Building (450 meters). Doesn't that look impressive?"
The ever-increasing number of landfills located on lands adjacent to large cities creates a potential threat to public health and significantly worsens the environmental situation. The need to review waste storage technologies is long overdue.
In addition, the accumulated waste can be reused and serve as a good source of energy (for example, gas released during decomposition). “Monument of Civilization” proposes to fill a hollow tower with garbage, which will be installed in the city center, and use the cheap energy released during decomposition for the needs of the city.
The tower can also serve as a reminder of the wasteful lifestyle of our society: “Gradually and constantly growing, the tower should encourage self-reflection of citizens and thus lead to a reduction in waste,” says the designer. “Looking at the size of such a tower, it will be possible to evaluate how well the residents of the city lead a correct lifestyle and how much they care about their future and the future of their children. I would like such towers to be installed in all cities, and perhaps someday major cities will compete to see which of them has the shortest garbage tower..."
2nd PLACE
Mountain Band-Aid (Mountain Band-Aid Project)
Project authors: Yiting Shen, Nanjue Wang, Ji Xia, Zihan Wang (China)
Industrialization and high rates of mining are destroying China's nature, especially in the mountains, which are literally on the verge of destruction. These processes not only destroy the ecology, but also displace the inhabitants of these regions, separating them from their homes and also depriving them of their livelihoods (many in these rural areas work as farmers). The Mountain Patch project aims to restore the natural ecosystem, allowing the mountain Hmong people to return to their former place of residence and work to further restore the ecology in the vicinity of Yunnan Mountain.
Chinese designers have developed a project for a two-layer structure. The outer layer is a skyscraper that stretches across the surface of the mountain and provides the indigenous people with the necessary housing. The interior sections of the unusual house are organized according to the traditional way of life of the Hmong people, which was in the villages before they were resettled from these places. Placing dwellings on mountain slopes means that their height is mainly determined by the height of the mountains. The structure not only serves as a home, but also allows for the restoration of the environment: people living on mountains crippled by mining will not only be able to maintain the unique organization of space in their new “village,” but will also contribute to the preservation and restoration of the mountain’s environment, incl. by irrigating its slopes (reuse of domestic wastewater). It is this irrigation system that is the second - internal layer of the project. The irrigation system aims to stabilize the mountain's soil and grow plants.
The skyscraper is built in the traditional southern Chinese style known as Chuan Dou. Small residential blocks are used as a basis: the blocks are loosely organized, like the houses that were once in the village, but at the same time they represent a single organism
1st place Himalayan water tower
Winner of the Skyscraper Competition 2012
Competition website: http://www.evolo.us
authors
Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao, Dongbai Song (China)
The Himalayan mountains, on the slopes of which there are more than 55 thousand glaciers, provide 40% of all fresh water in the world. Due to climate change, ice sheets are melting faster than ever before, which could lead to dire consequences for the entire Asian continent. This is especially true for villages and towns located along the banks of seven rivers, which are fed by meltwater from the Himalayas.
The Himalayan Water Tower is a huge structure that can be reproduced in series.
The structure is located high in the mountains and is designed to regulate the uniform flow of melt water - a special mechanism collects water during the rainy season, purifies it, freezes it and stores it for further use during dry seasons.
The water distribution schedule depends on the needs of residents of settlements located in the Himalayas. The stored water can help during periodic dry seasons and can be stored for many years.
The lower part of the tower consists of six stem-shaped pipes that serve to collect and store water. Like plant stems, these tubes contain large numbers of water-retaining “cells.” The upper part of the structure - the part that is visible above the snow line - is designed to store frozen water. Four massive cores support cylindrical steel structures filled with ice. Between the sections there are mechanical systems that help freeze water when climatic conditions in the mountains do not allow this to happen naturally, as well as purify the water and regulate the distribution of water and ice in the structure’s reservoirs.
At the bottom of the building there is also a kind of transport system that regulates and delivers water to villages and cities.