Seagram building

Seagram building is a skyscraper of offices in New York.

AUTHOR:
The architects of this building are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Born in Germany in 1886, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe broke new ground with his architectural designs. He started out as a draftsman before striking out later on is own. During World War I, Mies served in the German military. He then became a well-known architect in Gemany, creating such structures as the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona Exposition. In the late 1930s, Mies emigrated to the United States. There he created such well-known Modernist works as the Lake Shore Drive Apartments and the Seagram Building. He died in 1969.
Philip Johnson: Philip Johnson was an architect and theorist who esigned his own home,the Glass House, New Canaan, ct, on principles of space unification derived from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with whom he designed the Seagram Building skyscraper, New York City (1945). Further works include the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, TX (1961) and the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center (1964). He was the inaugural winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979.

PERIOD:
Seagram building is 157 metres tall and it has 37 floors. It was started in 1954 and it was completed in 1958.

STYLE: 
The Seagram building has an international style and íts architecture is modern.

LOCATION:
 It is located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. 

MATERIALS:
The Seagram building was built of a steel frame, from which non-structural glass walls were hung. Mies would have preferred the steel frame to be visible to all; howeever, American building codes required that allstructural steel  be coveed in a fireproof material, usually concrete, because improperly protected steel columns or beams may soften and fail in confined fires. Other materials they used for this building were marble for the plaza benches, travertine for the lobby walls and floor, tinted glass and bronze for thr curtain wall.

SHAPE RELATED: 
The skyscraper is prism-shaped.I think it is a huge and an elegant building.

This work is from Celia Bobo 3ºD

TEMPLE OF CONCORDIA

• AUTHOR

Ancient Greeks built this temple

• PERIOD

It was built between 440-430 a. C.

• STYLE

Its style is Greek Style: They used principally stone, they used elements such as columns…

• WHERE IS THIS BUILDING?

This building is a Greek temple of the city of Agrigento, an old Greek city called Akragas that now belongs to Italy, in the Valle dei Templi or Valley of the Temples, an archaeological site where there are many temples.

• ITS FUNCTION

Its function was, as it´s a temple, religious. Archaeologists doesn’t know yet to who was it dedicated.

Now it can be visited, so its function is cultural function.

• MATERIALS USED

Stone, wood (for the beams).

SHAPE RELATED TO

Its prism-shaped (the structure of the temple), cylinder-shaped (the columns, which are cylinders) and it´s also pyramid-shaped (Its roof, that is a pyramid)

• MY OPINION

I chose this building because I like history and I also like Greek Mythology, so I think It´s a very interesting a beautiful building. It´s old and well-balanced; and I also think it´s an elegant temple

CELIA BOBO RODRÍGUEZ-NORIEGA 3RD D

BASILICA OF SAINT PETER

In the construction of the basilica some of the most renowned architects in history worked, such as Donato Bramante, Michelangelo and Bernini. Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio, known as Bramante was an Italian painter and architect, who introduced the style of the first Renaissance in Milan and the High Renaissance in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti, known in Spanish as Miguel Ángel, was an Italian Renaissance architect, sculptor and painter, considered one of the greatest artists in history both for his sculptures and for his paintings and architectural works. He developed his artistic work over more than seventy years between Florence and Rome, which was where his great patrons lived, the Medici family of Florence and the different Roman popes. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor, architect and painter. He worked mainly in Rome and is considered the most outstanding sculptor of his generation, creator of the baroque sculptural style. Its construction lasted from the Renaissance to the modern age so its styles are Renaissance and Baroque. It is located in the Vatican City in St. Peter's Square. It has a residential as well as a religious cultural function. Its shape is like a cube the base and a hemisphere the dome, so I think it is amazing, original, huge and elegant, since I personally like the classic rather than the modern

JULIA P. PÉREZ-HOLANDA 3rd D

Puerta de Europa (KIO towers) - Torre del Oro

     Puerta de Europa (KIO Towers): Puerta de Europa are two twin skycrapers inclined offices with a height of 114 meters and 26 floors located in the Plaza de Castilla in Madrid. The towers have a parallelepiped shape and an inclination of 14.3 degrees. They belong to Bankia and Realia. They were built between 1989 and 1996 by Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas mainly of glass, granite and metal, the architects were Philip Johnson and John Burgee. It belongs to the post-modern architecture style. In spite of all the problems found by this two towers, either targets of attempted attacks or of the economic crisis, the KIO Towers are still in perfect condition to the present.




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     Torre del Oro: The Torre del Oro is a tower that forms part of a fortified area on the banks of Guadalquivir. It was buit by order of the Almohad governor of Sevilla, Abù l-Ulà between the years 1220and 1221 in an almohad style with stone, probably sandstone. It has got a duodecaedric cylinder floor. It was the most important defensive building of the Almohad city defensive system in it's begginings but after Sevilla was conquered by the christian army, it were used first as chapeland then as prision. The legend claims that it was also used as a store of silver and gold because it is located near Casa de la Moneda but it is compleatly false. I It was owned by many different empires in the history, ven thought it's shape is still almost the same.

Gonzalo Torrente Bermúdez - 3rd A

The Luxor Hotel Building

​By Sara Iravedra, Laura Bonhomme and Inés Carvajal.

It is a very famous hotel and casino situated in the southern end of Las Vegas, Nevada (EE.UU). It was renovated in 1998, 2007, 2008 and 2009, and now it has around 4000 bedrooms. It is pyramid-shaped, so it has four equal faces that are triangles, because it seems to be an Egyptian pyramid and all the hotel is decorated for looking that way. The name of the hotel comes from the Egyptian city of Luxor.
It started to be built in March 1992 and it opened in October 1993 (25 years ago) for a crowd of 10.000 people. As we said before, there were many renovations in the hotel. The one of 2007 was because a vehicle exploted in the garage of the building and a man died because the hotel and casino weren ́t evacuated.
We think it is a very large sculpture, very tall and very curious to be a hotel, we think it is a modern sculpture and very interesting, the colors make it very elegant, it is also very curious that it is in the middle of the city.

Building of China Media Groups

By Sara Iravedra, Laura Bonhomme and Inés Carvajal.

It is in Pekin, the capital city of China. It is used as the headquarter of the China Media Groups (CMG). In spanish it is called “Sede de la Televisión Central de China”. Its shape is formed by the union of six prism-shaped blocks, and depending of the perspective it can look like a square or many other kinds of shapes ( always depending of the perspective).
It was started to be built the 1st June 2004 and was finished the 16th May 2012, but there was a problem because in 2009 a fire appeared because of some fireworks, so after that, it had to be renovated.
We think that the building is not well-balanced because it is huge and its structure is so complicated (because it has many sides and faces). It is also very curiuous for looking at it from different perspectives. This building is not classic or elegant because it is used for television, so in fact it is a very modern construction.
It has 44 floors, it has 473.000 squared meters and it is 234 meters high, and it cost 850.000.000 €.

Arco de la defensa by Pedro Biain

Is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche. A 110 meter high cube, La Grande Arche is part of the perspective from the Louvre to Arc de Triomphe. The distance from La Grande Arche to Arc de Triomphe is 4 km.

Its oviously cubed shaped in the middle and with strange rectangular shaped in the outside

It was created by 4 architects:

Otto von Spreckelsen

Paul Andreu

Erik Reitzel

Peter Rice

It was built from 1985 to 1990 and its situated in the west of paris taking part of the business neighbourhood

His function is only for business.

In the low part its made of concrete to support 300 000 t of the building. Then the rest ist mainly marble with some glass or aluminium

                      

National Library of Belarus By Héctor Prieto from 3rd D

National Library Of Belarus

By: Héctor Prieto 3^rd D

The National Library of Belarus its located in Minsk, It  was founded on September 15, 1922, and is the third library in the world for books in Russian language. It is the legal deposit of all works published in the Republic of Belarus. Its a rhombicuboctahedron-shaped building, to entertain and attract tourists thanks to its beautiful and interesting shape. The construction of the building started in November 2002 and completed in January 2006. The height of the building is 73.6 metres (241.5 feet) and weight is 115 000 tones (not including books). The building has 23 floors. The National Library of Belarus is the main information and cultural centre of the country. Its depository collections include about 10 million items of various media.

 

The Pentagon by Daniela Escudero

The Pentagon (Arlington Country, Virginia) is the headquarter of the United States' Department of Defense. As a symbol of the U.S military, the phrase The Pentagon is often used to refer to that.
The building was designed by American architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain.
The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m²) of space, of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m²) are used as offices. Some 23,000 military and civilian employees, and another 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi (28.2 km) of corridors. The central five-acre (20,000 m²) pentagonal plaza is nicknamed "ground zero" on the presumption that it would be a prime target in a nuclear war.

KIO TOWERS

This work is presented by: Julia Azcano, Ainhoa Alvarez and Daniela Prieto

KIO TOWERS:

The Gate of Europe towers, also known as KIO towers, are twin office buildings near the Plaza de Castilla in Madrid, Spain. They are the second tallest twin towers in Spain after “Las Torres de Santa Cruz”. In the towers there are lots of offices. The building is made up of two towers prism-shaped that are inclined and symmetrical. They are made of crystal, metal and granite. Together they form a kind of futuristic door. It was built between 1990 and 1995 and it was designed by Philip Johnson y John Burgee.

Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an American architect. He is best known for his works of Modern architecture, including the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and his works of postmodern architecture, particularly 550 Madison Avenue which was designed for AT&T, and 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago. In 1978, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize.

John Burgee (born August 28, 1933) is an American architect noted for his contributions to postmodern architecture. He was a partner of Philip Johnson from 1967 to 1991, creating together the partnership firm Johnson/Burgee Architects

In my opinion this building is very modern and huge, because it is 115 meters tall. Also I think it was difficult to build because it seems the towers are going to fall down.

EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS

Author:  Philip Johnson y John Burgee.

Name: Torres Kio

Where is?: In Plaza de Castilla (Madrid)

Materials: glass, granite and metal

Age: Start in 1989 and finish in 1996

Polyedra-shaped: parallelepiped

Opinion: I like this building because is the first building with this form and also is in the capital of my country (Spain)

Author: Guglielmo, Fernando di Vincenzo,  Tommasso di Andrea Pisano

Name: Torre de Pisa

Where is? : In Pisa(Italy)

Materials:plaster, stone, ceramic, lime, polymers, glass, composite materials, recycled materials, wood, cement and concrete

Age: 1173

Polyedra-shaped: cillinder

Opinion: I like this building because is a very iconic building from Italy and the building have very interesting history 

Author: Norman Foster,  Ken Shuttleworth and Arup

Name: The Gherkin

Where is? : The City(London)

Materials: steel and glass

Polyedra-shaped: like a rocket

Opinion: This building is very interesting building because is an ecological building and also is in my favorite city  

Author: Renzo Piano

Name: The Shard

Where is? : In London

Materials:  concrete, steel and glass

Polyedra-shaped: Pyramid

Opinion: I like this building because is very beautiful and impressive

Author:  Jean Nouvel and b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

Name: Torres Glories

Where is? : In Barcelona

Materials: Concrete, steel and glass

Polyedra-shaped: Like a rocket

Opinion: This building is my favorite because I love the form and the colors of the building