María Carriles 3ºA

United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel

The Chapel of the United States Air Force Academy is a religious building completed in 1962 in the Cadet Area, north of Colorado Springs, in the area known as El Paso County, Colorado, United States.It has 46m of height, 85m length and a wide of 26m. It was designed by Walter Netsch, of Skidmore Owings and Merrill. It was named National Historic Landmark of the USA. UU in 2004.

The building is composed of 17 glass and aluminum needles, each one composed of 100 tetrahedra, which envelop the entire roof.

The tetrahedrons that make up the needles are covered by triangular aluminum panels, while the tetrahedra that are generated between them are covered with a mosaic of colored glass with aluminum frame.

The building has 3 churches, one protestant, another catholic and a third jewish.

I find this building very interesting because of the shape it has, and the function it performs, I was also surprised when I saw it because of its very strange shape.

BMW TOWER

                                              

The main tower was built between 1968 and 1972. The building rises 101 m high. The shape of the exterior is supposed to mimic the tire of a racing car, with the garage representing the cylinder cover. Both constructions were designed by the Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer.

The tower consists of four vertical cylinders standing side by side. In particular, these cylinders are not on the ground; they are suspended from a central support tower. The tower has a diameter of 52.3 meters. The building has 22 occupied floors, of which two are basements and 18 serve as office space. It was declared a historic building in 1999. It was built of concrete.

This building seems fun to me at the same time as elegant, because the shape it has makes it a bit strange, but it is totally linked to what this company is dedicated to manufacturing. I think he's very curious

FROG QUEEN

It is located in Graz, Austria. It was built by the company Splitterwerk in 2009.

The shape of the building approximates a cube, measuring 18,125 x 18,125 x 17m, wrapped in the four elevations with a pixelated pattern of square panels. From a distance, these panels appear to be painted in a range of ten gray-tone values, dematerializing together the volume of the building against the trees of the surrounding site and the clouds and sky. Therefore, the cubic building is both monumental in its objectuality in the open landscape and, however, completely non-iconographic in its general form.

 Each facade panel is in itself almost square, measures 67 x 71.5 cm, and is made of powder coated aluminum, with serigraphy with the different images.

It is dedicated to engineering, in which we find laboratories and spaces for technical experimentation.

This building is, without a doubt,  the one that I like most of all, because it creates optical effects, both outside and inside, and it seems to me, impressive as well as amusing that someone has thought to build this building.