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Architectural Wonders 2006
images.businessweek.com — The past year's marvels of architecture include innovative green office buildings, Apple's showcase store, and the world's longest over-sea bridge.
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- Doozee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Wow!
- rmaus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare.
- Aggaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The welsh national assembly looks like something out of War of the Worlds. Orson Welles would be happy.
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I've heard that many Frank Lloyd Wright building are structural/maintenance nightmares.
- sabarsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Engineers may think architects are crazy, but they still manage to make the architects dream come true through determination and smarts.
- bSimms, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Pretty cool stuff. I will show my fellow Arch students here at PSU.
- wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare."
Everything on that list was pretty buildable and conventional (structurally), with the exception of maybe the bridge, and all the curving wood members in National Assembly for Wales.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I visited number 10 at Janelia Farms. It looked futuristic and technologically refreshing, but "wonder"?
- neolarthytep, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Hearst Building uses natural air for HVAC most of the year.... Since this is new york I wonder if they get all the goodies in the air that new yorkers breath in everyday on the street like all the cancer causing things emitted from cars... lol. What will they think up next?
- Lyph4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, someone should invent a high efficiency particulate air filter to keep all the nasties out of the air..
This type of air filter could theoretically remove at least 99.97% of dust, pollen, mould, bacteria and any airborne particles with a size of 0.3 micrometres (µm) at 85 litres per minute (L/min). If only someone would invent it!
GET WITH THE ***** PROGRAM, DUMMY!
- Lyph4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, someone should invent a high efficiency particulate air filter to keep all the nasties out of the air..
- ReallyChili, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25The Apple Store being on there is *****. Not an anti-Apple flame, but it's not in the same league as the others. Besides, the Hayden Planetarium in NYC was a bigger and better example of the glass cube in architecture and it was completed years ago.
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12My understanding of what makes the apple store so relvolutionary, is that it sacrifices a lot of potentially lucrative retail space overhead, to give the public a space to congregate and hang out and eat and meet up and wahtnot,. thus giving back to the city, while at the same time drawing people near their store and generating business. i think that is what is revoltionary. For such a high profile company to build something with the customer so passionately in mind
- Aggaman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Where's Flag564 to digg this article down because it mentions Apple?
Is he ill? - flag564, on 10/12/2007, -9/+10"Where's Flag564 to digg this article down because it mentions Apple?"
Dude, get a life.
I actually do study architecture and ready many architecture related publications, and no the Apple store is far from an Architecture Wonder. Their are buildings in China and the U.A.E., even single family homes in Tokyo that blow that thing out of the water.
Honestly this isnt the best list they could have done. - zang74, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3@flag564:
Perhaps you missed the part where these were pieces of architecture built in 2006. But, I guess if there's an opportunity to take a dig at Apple, you don't even bother to RTFA and instead just skim over the pictures. - flag564, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Perhaps you missed the part where I wasn't talking about buildings not built in 2006. But I guess as soon as you saw my post you just had to rush in and add nothing to the topic as long as you can talk about Flag.
And if you were able to read this thread, you would also have seen that the OP mentioned me first. Or did that fly over your head too.
And I stand by my original point. Pick up an issue of Architecture, Architectural Digest, Dwell, or Metropolis and you will see tons of better examples of buildings, made in 2006, that are true wonders. some of these are good examples. The Apple store isnt in the same league. Maybe a good store design, but NOT an "architectural wonder". - zang74, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Flag, I doubt you've said a single positive thing about Apple on all of Digg. Your anti-Apple bias is flagrant and blatant and is quite frankly famous amongst the users of Digg. You would have commented on this article regardless of whether someone mentioned you or not, I guarantee it.
Here's hoping Digg adds some sort of karma system in the next update, because then we may finally see the end of Flag564's insults, lies and intolerance. - zaren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8One of the resident Apple fanboys here. I completely agree, that's not an architectural marvel, that's a glass box. It's absolutely nothing compared to some of the other items on the list. It's afwul purdy, but a marvel? Meh.
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1a lot of amazing buildings are designed on macs so i don't know wtf flags problem is. on the other hand a lot of those buildings mentioned aren't that great and the apple store is one of them (i have an architecture degree, and i've been to the store), my top building which was out of the running by two months is the Phaeno Science center by Zaha Hadid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeno_Science_Center
The work by Rogers was also quite impressive - wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ Really Chili
What sets the apple store apart from Hayden Planetarium is that glass is used as the structure itself, so there is no reinforcing steel frame holding a curtain wall of glass, like the planetarium. - adragons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@zang74
The funny thing is, flag's bias of apple has cause you (and others), to become biased towards flag in a "flagrant and blatant" and hypocritical way.
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12My understanding of what makes the apple store so relvolutionary, is that it sacrifices a lot of potentially lucrative retail space overhead, to give the public a space to congregate and hang out and eat and meet up and wahtnot,. thus giving back to the city, while at the same time drawing people near their store and generating business. i think that is what is revoltionary. For such a high profile company to build something with the customer so passionately in mind
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Just feel sorry for people who work at that first building...All those mirrors just suck the energy outta the whole place. This is not Feng Shui by any means... NOt to mention that you will probably never ever EVER come into work with a hangover again once you've had your first one walking through that hallway....
- ReallyChili, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@baxtermaddux
That's hardly revolutionary. It's a wonderful space, I'm not denying that. But to put it in league with the Hearst Building et al is a joke. I hope you aren't trying to argue that this is the first retail space with space to congregate and hang out, hardly. I fail to see anything revolutionary here. - madmac66, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@ReallyChili
The point I think baxtermaddux is trying to make is that "sacrifice" is the key word here. Yes, there is a Starbucks in almost every Barnes And Noble for people to hang out. nothing new in that. But the fact that Apple chose to SACRIFICE high profile retail prescence in favor of aesthetics, community or whatever is somewhat a revolutionary concept in this "in your face" retail age. Can you imagine going to any other retailer with the artist rendition and plans for a new store..."Look. its a big glass cube with NOTHING in it...." Most clients would laugh you out the room. Simple, bold, genius. - madmac66, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2not a chance in hell you could get me on that bridge!!!
- zaren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My first thought on seeing it:
What happens if there's an accident on that bridge? Multi-car pileup? Jack-knifed semi? Unless there's some backup road system built into that thing, it'd be a traffic jam of epic proprtions.
- zaren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My first thought on seeing it:
- grantski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nice to see 3 out of the 11 are in the UK. Regarding Wembley Stadium - the quote "visible for all parts of London" is a slight exaggeration.
- flag564, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The fact that they took down the stadiums old towers is a disgrace.
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's such a boring design, the arch is the only distinctive part, while the rest is generic. It's a shame that something like beijings olympic stadium wasn't built.
- loconet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2exaggeration indeed.
They describe it as "the largest soccer arena in the world". One has to be careful to note that arena means enclosed. According to wikipedia, it will be the largest "roofed" stadium in Europe.
However, as far as "regular" football stadiums, Saltlake Stadium in Calcutta, El Azteca in Mexico City, and Jornalista Mário Filho (El Maracanã) in Rio, are still the biggest football stadiums in the world.
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For Business Week to rate "architectural wonders" is akin to Consumer Reports doing driving tests. Some of those were interesting, but hardly ground breaking in terms of architectural merit.
- thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1what a worthless exit sign
- tarkam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If Kevin sells digg he should move into number 8 on the slide show!
- qbyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This website is making Vista prompt me to install something when I visit. Just a heads up for all of you running previous versions of Windows that lacks this sort of warning system.
- machambi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2or should it be a warning for users running previous versions of Windows to not upgrade to Vista ??? Humm !
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