Showing posts with label Buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buildings. Show all posts

10/20/2014

Antilia — The Most Expensive House in the World

Wealth and special status of the person should be expressed in all: in the presence of exclusive Swiss watches on hand in buying huge yachts, ultra supercar, and even such unnecessary, but insanely expensive things like gold vacuum cleaner . However, there is nothing that will stress the innumerable dimensions of your capital, as the house in which you live. 

Antilia — The Most Expensive House in the World
© Jonathan Becker

10/06/2014

Holland's Largest Indoor Market — Largest Covered Marketin In The Netherlands by MVRDV

Hard to imagine such a huge volume vaulted building turned out to be a farmer's market. Of course, if you go inside the hall, the entire wall with vegetables and fruits on the roof will obviously tell you, "Yes, this is indeed a very large Market!"

This building is located in Rotterdam by the internationally renowned architectural firm from local MVRDV designed residential and farmers market is a combination of new urban complex architecture, but also Holland's first indoor farmers market. 

Holland's Largest Indoor Market — Largest Covered Marketin In The Netherlands by MVRDV
© Nico Saieh

9/25/2014

South Indian Movie Theatres by Stefanie Zoche

Indian films began in the late 19th century. Is the world's major film production areas. Film production in India is the highest in the world, mainly to cope with the huge domestic demand. Bollywood is the largest film production bases in the world, with hundreds of millions of viewers. At the same time there are a large number of Indian films in the country live in Indian immigrants are also very popular.

So you can see the movie in this form of entertainment in the lives of Indians has a pivotal position. Bollywood movies like colorful pictures, these cinema building in southern India also looks like peacefulness, reminiscent of those gorgeous colorful movie screen. These photos of the photographer from Munich, Germany Stefanie Zoche. 

South Indian Movie Theatres by Stefanie Zoche

1/10/2014

Twisted Torso | The twirled spiral skyscraper, Sweden

The unique skyscraper "Twisted torso", which was built in Sweden 2005, the project is the most extravagant contemporary architect of Santiago Calatrava.The basis of the project is based on a unique conceptual sculpture by the author in the form of a stylized ancient thrower. Shifted relative to each other cubes were supposed to symbolize the athlete in motion. This principle, Calatrava moved on its building, which later became a landmark for the country.

Twisted Torso | The twirled spiral skyscraper, Sweden
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The twirled spiral skyscraper, impresses and is admired by ordinary citizens. In its filling, the building is a residential complex with apartments placed here, offices, conference room, jacuzzi, gym and its own wine cellar. As for design, it is a complex system consisting of nine blocks pentagonal shape, they have 5 floors. These segments are strung on a single powerful core and bonded to each other steel framing farm.

That would give the form of dynamics, the blocks are rotated relative to each other facing clockwise. As a result of this "twist" is formed by a spiral, where the upper tier is rotated relative to the lower floor to 90 degrees. "Twisted Torso" - became a kind of Sweden starting point for the development of the construction industry of the area, and the implementation of such a complex and unique project showed worldwide technological capabilities ultramodern construction.