Exterior view from the bay
SYDNEY OPERA
Jorn Utzon y Ove Arup
Sidney.Australia.1959-1973
The Sydney Opera House is considered a masterpiece of great beauty internationally. An essential symbol for the Australian nation.
A series of white shells, juxtaposed and erect, recall the sails of ships. something new, imaginative and also very suitable for the location in which the building was to be located, in the Bay of Sydney. The building houses several theater complexes, all organized on central axis and axiality. where roofs are covered by a number of over one million pieces of ceramics, changing color depending on sunshine, creating a multicolored mosaic that attracts visitors .
Photography:Fran Correa Ramos
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Section and Elevation.
The special volume space of the nave
IGLESIA DE Bagsvaerd
Jislandrn Utzon
Bagsværd, Copenhagen, Dinamarca.1976
This work is the first work of Danish architect after the conclusion of its work for the Sydney Opera House on his return to his homeland from Australia.
It is a work of exquisite sensitivity in handling and space scales. White concrete use for a particular building vaults inverted inside gives this particular materiality, guiding the low northern light to generate a highly spiritual environment.
Its shapes recall some drawings by the author in expressing allegorically poetic relationship between landscape and clouds, earth and sky.
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View large arc from one of the ponds in the park
JEFFERSON MEMORIAL NATIONAL PARK
Dan Kiley y Eero Saarinen
Saint Louis. Missouri. USA, 1965
The Gateway Arch, or Gateway to the West Arch, designed by Eero Saarinen 1947 is one of the most significant monuments of the city of St. Louis. Relive the epic expedition of Lewis and Clark at the point from which it departed to the Pacific. It is a metaphor for the city as a gateway to the American West with a huge symbolic arch is the tallest structure in the city
It is part of the Jefferson National Memorial, whose park designed by Dan Kiley repeatedly expand and modify associated landscaping, finishing the set in 1965. The treatment of space is characterized by the division of land into four quarters that reforestarían. The major areas include two separate ponds that allow the monument perception retired relaxed about the city adjoining.
Photography: Schromann, Flickr
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General plan of the park
Source: Jefferson Memorial
Extract from general management plan of the city
PLAN FOR THE CITY OF CHANDIGARH
Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeaneret
Punjab. India, 1966
Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India responsible this urban design to Le Corbusier, to mid-twentieth century. It is an example of integrated urban project for a new capital city in order to represent the culture of the nation nascent newly established.
The plan of Chandigarh as an arises functionally orthogonal road network, orderly and hierarchical, in which penetrate leaves forming vast natural spaces and organizing linear parks and neighborhood units ordered large superblocks. The set is complemented by a high quality monumental architecture as the building to the assembly.
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The “open hand” of Chandigarh
Aerial view of the configuration of the new city as we propose Owen
COMUNIDAD utopian NEW HARMONY
Robert Owen
Posey County. Indiana, USA. 1825
New Harmony was an experimental urban approach to the development of a new form of organization of human life in common. With the precedent of the community New Lanark in Scotland, Owen would implement their utopian social ideas in this implementation that remains to this day but in a different way to the originally intended. These proposals would be a reference for the further development of socialism.
In this case, the new city would be developed as a huge building that would house premises, leisure and work for its occupants. His promoter and a modern look to foster cooperation and increase artisanal loyalty and solidarity among members of the community.
Image: Engraving of F. Bat, 1838
View from Gran Via
CAPITOL BUILDING
Christopher Vicente y Luis Martinez Feduchi
Great Via.Madrid.España.1933
The Capitol building is one of the great landmarks of Gran Vía Madrileña, based on New York skyscrapers, German Expressionism and the building has 14 plants 54 meters, dedicated to service includes a residence hotel 64 apartments, offices, cinema, cafeteria and hall. Noted for its technological advances,was the first building in Madrid with installation of air conditioning.
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Exterior View
BUILDING BANKINTER
Rafael Moneo
Walk Castellana.Madrid. Spain 1976
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This work is to solve the difficult fit between the palace sheltered housing and buildings after their forced servitude. Moneo solves the problem very simply, with respect for the urban context, to not overwhelm any of these two constructs,. The subtlety with which the building bends and opens on its rear face, visible from the street Marques de Riscal, is a precious gesture which summarizes some of the constructive nature of Moneo, away from always spectacular and unique architecture to prefer.
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TORRES WHITE
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
Avenue America.Madrid Spain 1964
Brief Description
The building, of 71 meters, is a cylinder structure based around its perimeter surrounded by wooden lattice balconies. It has twenty plants, intended for home and office, plus two additional floors on top of the building. An intermediate plant is reserved for general facilities and a rooftop pool meandering. Oíza The claim was to build a unique residential building, high-rise, to grow organically, as a tree, stairs vertically tour, lifts and facilities, like the tree wood vessels and terraces curves as if they were clustered branch leaves.
Photography:Federico Garcia Barba
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Exterior View
Main space dedicated sports
WONDERS SCHOOL GYM
Alejandro de la Sota
Joaquin Costa, 21. Madrid. Spain, 1961
With an area of 20 seven meters trusses type "bridge" in steel, resting on pillars fine occur at intervals transversely 6 meters ,freeing up the internal space of the court.
Using trusses, within whose songs would include a recessed classrooms, did not touch the facade and windows closed to let in light to the gym and received while inside. With this ingenious De la Sota solution solves the location of different uses in the same space.
The adjectival characteristic pavement drawing the square space
CAPITOL PLAZA DEL
Miguel Angel Buonarroti
Via del Teatro Marcello
Rome, Italy. Begun in 1536
This square is at the top of the Capitoline Hill, is one of the summits of the universal urban design. It, Buonarroti pose an enclosure turns his back completely to the neighboring Imperial Forums.
Chaired by the bronze equestrian statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, is one of the most sublime of Italian Mannerism. Su trapezoidal layout framed by them facades of palaces remain so, purchase makes a great theatrical solemnity and grandeur visitors accessing the large stepped ramp leading up from the Via del Teatro Marcello.
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