In 2017 around 150 buildings of more than two hundred meters have been completed in the world.Only from that data, it is easy to understand the complexity of making a list with the most influential buildings of the year .The experts of the prestigious magazine Architectural Digest get to work every year, in search of the most Inspiring of the most important names in architecture and some rising stars.This is your selection.
Chaoyang Park Plaza.MAD Architects.Pekin
MAD Architects architects were inspired by looking in classic Chinese landscape paintings to design the new Chaoyang Park Plaza, a new 220,000 m complex Etros opened in 2017.They paid attention to traditional Chinese ink paintings and concentrated on creating a suggestive atmosphere where nature and architecture could blend in.The scheme is a complex of 10 buildings designed with black and white curved organic shapes.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi.Jean Nouvel (UAE)
The new museum opened in Abu Dhabi is one of the most spectacular cultural bets in the world this year.By the way, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi has announced the acquisition of the masterpiece Salvator Mundi, by Leonardo da Vinci.The work, considered one of the most prominent artistic rediscoveries of the last 100 years, will be shown in n the Louvre Abu Dhabi, together with another da Vinci masterpiece, La Belle Ferronniere, which is a current loan from the Musee du Louvre.
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Lascaux IV.Snø hetta (Montignac, France)
The real-size replica of the cave of Lascaux, a masterpiece of rock art located in central France, has been a true public success, with almost 500,000 visitors since its opening a year ago.Opened on December 10, 2016 and open to the public a few days later, Lascaux IV received the visit of half a million tourists, mostly Europeans, but also Americans and Asian.Operators expected 400,000.
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.Thomas Heatherwick (Cape Town, South Africa)
The Zeitz MOCAA building in Cape TownCreated by Thomas Heatherwick, founder of the London-based design studio that bears his last name, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art (Zeitz MOCAA) houses its galleries in a converted grain silo of 1920.Heatherwick's biggest challenge was to design a museum that would encourage him to visit it.Instead of demolishing this abandoned building, the architect decided to build on it and allow it to become part of the final design.From the top of Zeitz MOCAA, visitors can see Robben Island, the prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.
Yves Saint Laurent Museum.Studio KO (Marrakech, Morocco)
Located in Marrakech, the Musee Yves Saint Laurent renders home Naje to the famous designer born in Algeria.Designed by Studio KO, the building is near Jardin Majorelle, the home acquired by Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge.It was built with terracotta, terrazzo and wood, as a tribute to the city that inspired the creator.
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Victoria and Albert Museum, and AL_A (London)
A new space was opened last summer at the Victoria and Albert Museum from London, designed by Amanda Levete, of the London firm AL_A.The project took six years to develop.It was about transforming the old boiler yard into the great cultural artery of London.For this a bold new design was used that contrasts radically with the traditional red brick museum.The Exhibition Road Quarter consists of a new entrance, a courtyard and a gallery specially designed for temporary exhibitions.
Apple Park.Foster + Partners ( Cupertino, California)
Lu new Apple headquarters , inaugurated in spring, is in the Californian city of Cupertino and has an area of 70 hectares.The central building, which is shaped like a ring and occupies 26 hectares, has the largest curved glass panels in the world, according to the The Steve Jobs Auditorium houses a thousand seats and is located on a hill overlooking the meadows and the main building.Apple Park, which was designed next to the Foster + Partners studio, also has a visitor center, an Apple Store ( Apple store), 3.2km of green areas for walking, a gymnasium of 9,290 square meters for employees and a pond in the center of the main building.The building (which costs more than 5,000 million dollars) is prepared against earthquakes and surrounded by 9,000 drought-resistant trees.
Tianjin Binhai Library.MVRDV (Tianjin, China)
The Tianjin Binhai Library, rated the most beautiful« in China» ;, houses 1.2 million books strategically placed along a spherical auditorium in Waving shelves of white color.The interior of the space stands out, in addition, for its great luminosity thanks to a large circular opening that provides light and invites to take a seat and surrender to reading.The futuristic library is located inside a large gallery, crowned by vaulted arches in the shape of a cathedral, which meanders throughout the whole scheme.In total, they are 33,700 square meters.
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LEGO House.Bjarke Ingels Group (Billund, Denmark)
Four years has It took a while to raise the LEGO House in Billundla, a Danish city where the iconic brick was invented.With a design by the BIG architecture firm (Bjarke Ingels Group), the house consists of 21 white bricks stacked one on top of the other and its facade looks covered of tiles, giving the illusion that the whole building is made of toy bricks.On the ground floor, there are three restaurants, a brand store, a conference room and the LEGO Square of 2,000 square meters.
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Maggie' s Center.Steven Holl Architects (London)
Steven Holl He is an atypical architect, say the experts at Architectural Digest.When he designs, he mainly uses watercolors unlike most architects who use lapi zo pen.The different perspective of watercolors can be seen at the Maggie's Center, a center for cancer patients recently opened in London.Multicolored glass panels look along the facade.
Beirut Terraces.Herzog&Meuron (Lebanon)
Beirut is one of the most active and vibrant cities in the region.But this is an island of peace.It is a building of several layers of 119 meters high.The stratified structure is distinguished by the projection or delay of living areas that generate terraces and projections, light and shadow, places of refuge and exposure.As a result, each unit is unique and variations in the design of the apartments in each layer carefully form a new neighborhood.The impressive Beirut terraces created by Herzog&de Meuron are proof that skyscrapers do not need to be huge masses of metal to which we are accustomed.
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