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Amaravati, part ii

Architect: Norman Foster

Architectural Style: High-Tech, Sustainable

Andhra Pradesh, India

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To break my hiatus I’ve decided to try something different. Rather than create an image collage for one architectural feature, I’ve touched upon an entire city designed by one architect.

This post is a two-parter. Below I’ve included a video covering the design focus by the firm, and I’ve briefly described the sustainable approach Foster + Partners are touting. If you are interested in learning more, check out the links to articles covering this massive endeavor. 

The goal is to give Andhra Pradesh, India’s 8th largest state, a completely renewable and cutting-edge city capital. Amaravati’s center is a ‘green spine’ laced with sustainable waterways funneled from the Krishna river. It is to be populated with electric water taxis. Other transportation will include electric trains, buses, and bicycles. The architect, Norman Robert Foster, is known for his high-tech design approach. He is a Pritzker Architecture Prize winner which is one of, if not ‘the’, most distinguishing awards in his field.

Further Reading:

Architects Journal,  Times of India, India Today, dezeen, inhabitat

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Espaces d'Abraxas

Architect: Ricardo Bofill

Architectural Style: Neo-Historicism

Noisy-le-Grand, France

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Marin County Civic Center

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Architectural Style: Modernism*

San Raphael, California, US

*Wright’s architectural style changed throughout his life, so it is difficult to clearly identify one singular style to the MCCC. Although designed in 1957 and built contemporaneously with the Guggenheim museum in New York (within the International style), he drew greatly from his own Broadacre City concept of 1932. If we can narrow the style of the MCCC down past the monolith that is ‘Modernism’, one may choose organic architecture, although the straight shape and hard geometries of the building somewhat complicate his philosophy. 

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Sprawling Antarctic Port Mimics Jagged Ice Formations Along Frozen Coast

Sergiu-Radu Pop, an architecture student taught by Zaha Hadid (link) at Studio Hadid Vienna, unveiled development plans for the Earth’s final frontier with his proposed Transformable Antarctic Research Facility. The project envisions a sprawling center for vital research as well as environmental tourism, filled with spaces like exhibition halls, exercise rooms, accommodation, conference chambers, observation decks, and port transportation stations.

The influence of Pop’s mentor, Hadid, is clear in the building’s soaring, futuristic design. Located on a rugged coastline, the dynamic structure juts out over the water while also extending upwards with a curved glass tower. The architecture student’s primary design tool was biomimicry, as shown in the way the facility’s sweeping shape mimics the jagged, asymmetrical edges of ice formations along the Antarctic coast.

Source:  http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/sergiu-radu-pop-transformable-antarctic-research-facility-project

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Galaxy SOHO

Architect: Zaha Hadid

Architectural Style: Neofuturism

No.7A Xiaopaifang Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

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Nakagin Capsule Tower

Architect: Kisho Kurokawa

Architectural Style: Metabolism

Shimbashi, Tokyo, Japan

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Kyoto International Conference Center

Architect: Sachio Otani

Architectural Style: Metabolism

Takaragaike, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan