Architecture Student Chronicles

Here is a list of some of the most radical post-modernist designs done by leading Architects in the world…

St. Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo

• Architect :   Kenzo Tange
• Date : 1963
• Speciality :   Up-sweeping hyperbolic paraboloid roofs.
• The plan of the building is in the form of a cross, from which the walls, eight hyperbolic parabolas, rise up at an angle.

HSB Turning Torso

• Spanish Architect : Santiago Calatrava
• Place: Malmo, Sweden
• Date : June of 2001 to November 2005
• Speciality : The tower’s design uses nine five-story cubes that twist as it rises.
• The top-most segment is twisted ninety degrees clockwise with respect to the ground floor

Weisman Art Museum

Weisman Art Museum

• Architect : Frank Gehry
• Date:   1993
• Place: University of Minnesota in Minneapolis
• Speciality: Often called a “modern art museum,” the 20,000+ image collection

Disney Concert Hall

Disney Concert Hall

• Architect : Frank Gehry
• Place : Los Angeles, California
• Speciality : Made of Stainless Steel. It required a $90,000 extra money to dull down its shine.
• Date : October 23, 2003.

Shanghai World Financial Centre

• Architect : Kohn Pedersen Fox
• Date : 1997 to 2008
• Height : 101-story tower, 492 meters
• Speciality : Tallest building in Mainland China
• It is a mixed use skyscraper which will consist of office spaces, hotel rooms, conference rooms, observation decks and shops on the ground floors.

Transamerica Pyramid

Transamerica Pyramid

• Architect : William L. Pereira
• Date : 1972
• Height : 260 meters, 48 floors
• Speciality : Tallest building in San Francisco.
• The building is a tall, four-sided pyramid with two “wings” on opposite sides of the building. The building’s façade is covered in crushed quartz, giving the building its pure white color.

Celebration- Town Hall, Florida

• Architect : Philip Johnson
• City: Celebrations in Florida, USA
• Building: Town Hall
• Speciality: Instead of a symmetrical row of imposing round columns, thin pillars crowd together beneath a pyramid-shaped roof.

Louvre Pyramid

Louvre Pyramid

• Architect : I. M. Pei
• Date : 1989
• Location : Paris, France
• Speciality : The Louvre Pyramid is a large metal and glass pyramid which serves as the main entrance to the Musée du Louvre and has become a landmark for the city of Paris.

Valencia Opera House

Valencia Opera House

• Architect : Santiago Calatrava
• Date : October 2005
• Place : Valencia, Spain
• Type :  Opera House
• Speciality : The opera house resembles a ship with round portals, or the cracked shell of an egg in which the main auditorium itself is the yolk.

Torre Marenostrum

• Architect : Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue
• Location : Barcelona, Spain
• Specialtiy : A horizontal building projects out of the tower between the 5th and 10th storeys, lending the building a strong personality and which from an architectural point of view enables the skyscraper to integrate into the entire complex and the surrounding city.

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