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Three Beijing buildings on Time magazine´s best list
BEIJING, Dec. 18(Xinhuanet) -- Three architectures in Beijing are on the list of 10 best architectural marvels (new and upcoming) selected by the Time magazine to be published on the Dec. 24.
The list:
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No.1 Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins, Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo. Steven Holl Architects
No.1 Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins, Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo. Steven Holl Architects
Adding a new wing to a neoclassical museum, Holl devised a spectacular update on classicism: an irregular series of volumes that cascade down the museum's lawn and glow from within. The effect against the nighttime sky is nothing short of magical.
No.2 Federal Building, San Francisco Morphosis
No.2 Federal Building, San Francisco Morphosis
This government office building is not only a smashing addition to the skyline, it's also green to the core. For one thing, its steel-mesh scrim is both a sunscreen and a design element that steps in sharp accordion folds at plaza level. A cutting-edge building, in all ways.
No.3 Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Weiss/Manfredi
No.3 Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Weiss/Manfredi
The Seattle Art Museum decided to put its sculpture park on an old industrial site crossed by a busy road and a railway line. Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi made the most of it with an intricate switchback pathway that draws nature, art and the city into a dynamic force field.
No.4 IAC Headquarters, New York Frank Gehry Partners
No.4 IAC Headquarters, New York Frank Gehry Partners
Gehry's exuberant building is an undulating, white glass mesa that uses his characteristic whiplashing lines in a subdued and legible way. The sculptural silhouette is actually a clear expression of the interior floor plates. They just happen to be madly inventive floor plates.
No.5 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Sanaa
No.5 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Sanaa
The New Museum is on the Bowery, a grimy but gentrifying stretch of lower Manhattan. So Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa gave it a home that's part funky, part shimmery, an asymmetrical stack of boxes covered by a honeycomb of aluminum.
UPCOMING
No.6 Olympic Stadium, Beijing
No.6 Olympic Stadium, Beijing
Athletes at the Summer Games will compete in a nestlike venue by Herzog & de Meuron.
No.7 CCTV Headquarters, Beijing
No.7 CCTV Headquarters, Beijing
A tetrahedronal structure by Rem Koolhaas will be the most radically reimagined tall building in the world.
No.8 Linked Hybrid, Beijing
No.8 Linked Hybrid, Beijing
Steven Holl's retail/ office complex will have sky bridges connecting each of its eight towers.
No.9 Heathrow Five, London
No.9 Heathrow Five, London
Richard Rogers' firm is giving Heathrow a big new terminal under a vast, column-free arch.
No.10 Caja Madrid Tower, Madrid
No.10 Caja Madrid Tower, Madrid
Norman Foster's oil-and-gas-company headquarters will have rooftop wind turbines.
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