Japan creates some of the mot advanced structures in the world that are capable of surviving most acts of nature. Take a look at these highways that make use of limited space and might make it tough for someone not familiar with the are to get around. If you are afraid of heights I would probably avoid driving on these highways.
The Crystal Cathedral is located in Garden Grove, California. It is a Protestant sanctuary that was built between 1977-1980 for a cost of nearly $17 million – $11 million over budget. However the structure, which consists of 10,000 glass panels, attracts nearly 250,000 visitors each year. I guess for the cost it is still on great investment.
Bridges are one of the ways that many major cities distinguish themselves. Here are some of the more impressive architectural feats done using bridges.
Some of these may have been featured here before, but there are many more to share here. Cool, strange, quirky designs of buildings from all around the world.
Very interesting building that is apparently found in San Francisco. Anyone care to share more details?
Junya Ishigami designed this workshop at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology just outside Tokyo. This is a building designed by the architect to almost disappear if you don’t look carefully. Ishigami explains the rationale behind his design, which left me scratching my head but nevertheless:
I wanted to make a space with very ambiguous borderlines, which has a fluctuation between local spaces and the overall space, rather than a universal space like that of Mies” says Ishigami. “This allows a new flexibility to emerge, revealing reality rather than shaping it.
Who would build a house from just anything in the world. Here is an example – a bottle house built either as some art project or just for fun. Anyway, that’s crazy!
United Arab Emirates is now trying these days to create Venice in Dubai by building an artificial canal. Aside from the staggering US$11bn tag price on the Arabian Canal, its developers promise it will be the largest and most complex work of engineering in the Middle East since the construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt in 1859.
Orestad College is the new danish school, built around an open area that can be seen from almost every floor. It looks like a big mall. It offers fields of study in science, social science and human science. The purpose of the college is to realize the 2005 reform’s aims to strengthen and renew the student’s professional capabilities, to prepare the students better for university and to enhance the science aspect. The school has wireless internet everywhere and every student receives a free laptop. It even has some orange pillows for students to relax, talk and work on the computer.
This is the school of my dreams!
The big island belongs to Canada, while the smaller one is part of the US. Thus, it appears that the bridge between them is international and the smallest in the world.
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