Sydney Opera House (Estrella Castaño and Candela Tamarit 3ºA)

It is located in Sydney. It was designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon (1918-2008). It was inaugurated on 20 October 1973.

  Theater, ballet, opera or musical productions are performed in the building.

  It is formed by prefabricated concrete panels that rest on prefabricated ribs of the same material. It has a modern and expressionist style.

  In my opinion, this building is curious, elegant and huge.

Montreal Biosphere (Estrella Castaño and Candela Tamarit 3ºA)

It is located in Montreal, in Canada. It was built by Richard Buckminster Fuller. He was an American architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, systems theorist and futurist.

  It is 61 meters high, and it has a diameter of 78 meters. The volume it contains is so large that it fits comfortably into a seven-story exhibition building with the various programmatic elements of the exhibition.

  It was built in 1967. Dedicated to water and the environment. It is made of metal.

  In my opinion, it is modern, funny and complex.

BUILDINGS

LOUVRE-MUSEUM PYRAMID

Author: Leoh Ming Pei.

He is an american architect with Chinese origins. At the age of 18 he moved to USA and he succeeded at the Massachusetts Technological University. He also taught in Harvard. Usually, the uses abstract shapes and cold materials such as iron. Pei is won of the most important architects nowadays. He received the Pritzker Prize in honor to his work in 1983.

Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Period: 1989.

Function: To be the structure of one of the most important museum in the world. National and international reference. Tourist attraction.

Materials: 95 tonnes of iron and 105 tonnes of aluminium. Also of glass.

Shape and magnitude: Pyramid-shaped. Three small pyramids next to the important and big one. The base of the pyramid is 35,42 metres wide and 21.94 metres long. Also, when you access to the Louvre you enter through an upside down pyramid.

Opinion: I like a lot this structure because it is very elegant and transparent so it looks very modern. In my opinion it is original and I don´t find it boring. Maybe it´s a little extravagant but I think that it is good for calling the tourists attention.

GUGGENHEIM

Author:  Frank Gehry.

He is a canadian architect who now a days live in The United States. He has graduated in architecture at the University of Southern California when he was 26 years old. Years later he studied urbanism at the University of Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Paris with his wife and daughters to study the architectural works of European architects.Years later he returned to the United States where he began to design his first recognized architectural works. In 1989 he won the Prize pritzker.

Location: is located in Bilbao, Spain.

Period: in 1993 the design was presented and in 1997  the construction of the infrastructure was completed.

Function: to be the structure of an importante museum of art. Tourist attraction.

Materials: It is made up by the union of limestone and titanium.

Shape and magnitude: It has the shape of many amorphous cylinders together. The roof covers an area of ​​26,000 square meters and the museum has a maximum height of 50 meters.

Style: It uses deconstructivism and expressionist and contemporary architecture.

Opinion: I find this building very interesting due to it´s shape and I think it is very original and it looks very modern and elegant.

By: Juan Fern

BURJ KHALIFA

The Burj Khalifa is a building of Dubai in the Arabs Emirates designed by Adrian Smith .
They start douing it in 2004 and they finished in 2010. It has a comercial function .
It is 828 meters high and its made of steel . It has the ginnes world record of the highest building .

KIO TOWERS

WORK BY CLAUDIA HERRERO AND PAULA ALFAYA

“KIO TOWERS” OR “GATE OF EUROPE”

AUTHOR: Philip Johnson y John Burgee.

PERIOD: The “KIO towers” or “Gate of Europe” were built in 1996.

STYLE: They have a postmodern style.

LOCATION: This towers are in Plaza Castilla, in Madrid.

FUNCTION: Seen from the south, the tower on the left belongs to Bankia while the tower on the right belongs to real estate Realia. Between the towers runs the Paseo de la Castellana and is the transport interchange of Plaza de Castilla.

SHAPE RELATED: It is a parallelepiped shape.

OPINION: In our opinion this building is very beautifull and original.

      

Monument of washington

The arquitecs were: Robert Mills and Thomas Lincoln

Biography of Robert:He was borned the 12 of August of 1781 in

Charleston.

Thomas lincoln: He was borned the 10 of may of 1831 in New york.

The year it was made finished the 9 of October in 1888.

The style of this building is called Neoegip.

This beautiful monument is located in the street 2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, EE. UU.

Its function is obelisc and to Conmemorate the figure of George Washington.

I like this monument because it is very simple and in my opinion is beautiful because of its large and shape and its location i think influences in his imposing shape. By Alejandro Abel 3ºC

FLATIRON BUILDING

Work done by María González 3^rdC-ESO

Author:

Daniel H. Burnham was born in New York in 1848 and is regarded as one of the greatest American architects, a father of the skyscraper and one of the most influential minds behind early 20th century architecture.

Burnham moved with his family to Chicago in 1855 and graduated from Central High School. After failing entrance exams to Harvard and Yale, he became a draftsman for William Le Baron Jenney, but soon left for Nevada, where he took part in mining and politics. He returned to Chicago in 1870, joined the office of Carter, Drake & Wight in 1872, and started an architectural practice with John Root in 1873, which would grow to national prominence (Burnham & Root; renamed D.H. Burnham & Company in 1891).

His major works are the Union Station (Washington DC), the Reliance Building (Chicago) and the Flatiron Building (New York).

Period:

In 1899 Harry S. Black purchased the plot to build a headquarters for his prosperous contracting firm and he chose Daniel Burnham as architect. Once the foundation was set during construction, the floors went up at a rate of one floor per week. And once the steel frame was done, it only took four months to finish the building, which was completed in June 1902, with the building opening in November that year.

Style:

The Flatiron Building was designed as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling.

Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers emerging from heavy, block-like bases, the Flatiron Building represents the Chicago school conception: it is like a classical Greek column rising directly from street level and with a facade divided into a base, a central shaft and an elaborate capital.

Location:

It is located in 175 Fifth Avenue in the neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Function:

It was built as the headquarters of the Fuller Construction company but now it is a popular retail and office space and is home to many U.S. and international companies.

Materials:

It employed a revolutionary steel skeleton, which was incredibly strong and allowed for thin, graceful walls. The Flatiron Building is fronted with limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terra-cotta as the floors rise

Shape:

It is known for its triangular prism-shape. The building name derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.

My opinion:

I think it is a very original building and it is different from most of the skyscrapers. Although it looks like a bit extravagant because it has a strange shape it is at the same time elegant and well-balanced.

BY DIEGO CELORIO

CHRYSLER BUILDING

AUTHOR: William Van Alen.

William Van Alen was born in the neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in 1883. He studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and initially worked in the Clarence True studio. He subsequently worked for different New York companies until in 1908 he won the prestigious Lloyd Warren Fellowship prize awarded by the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York, going to Paris to study with Victor Laloux,which decisively influenced his designs upon his return to the United States in 1911, where he partnered with H. Craig Severance, building some of the most significant buildings in New York City. Already alone, Van Allen designed the Chrysler Building, a considered skyscraper the architectural icon of Art Deco.

PERIOD: It opened in 1930.

STYLE: The archiltectural style is Art Deco.

WHERE IS ?:  405 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York

FUNCTION: In the Chrysler building there are only OFFICES.

MATERIALS: It is constructed of a steel frame in-filled with masonry, with areas of decorative metal cladding. The structure contains 3,862 exterior windows.

SHAPE OF: The middle part is like a prism and the top of the building is like a cone formed by stepped domes  and it has a spire.

The Chrysler building is straight, well-balanced, it’s amazing and original.

With perceived lightness, it’s very huge and elegant.

The Chrysler is often described as New York’s Christmas tree and it can be seen twinkling in the darkness for miles around. Ironically, the metal spire was pushed through the roof and bolted down in just 90 minutes after architect William Van Alen discovered his rivals at 40 Walls Street were likely to top his tall building.

Burj khalifa

Work written by Nicolás Corripio

The Burj Khalifa its a building designed by the architect Adrian Smith and to do that building the budget was of 4.000.000 $ but at the end it cost more than 20.000.000$.

This building starts in 2004 and it finish in 2010.

Its located in Dubai, in the Arabs Emirates.

The function of this building is comercial so diferent arab buisness make their work here.

Its made of steel and it looks like a lot of triangles together.

It have win a guiness record of height of 828 meters high.

In my opinion this is a very good building for all the work it gives and the height it have, i like it a lot.

Work done by Marcos Lago and Adrian Candano: Gate of Europe

The gate of Europe:

The architect that design it was Philip Jonson:

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.

Builder: Fomento de construcciones.

It began to be built in 1989 and ended in 1996, in the post modern architectural era .

Where? The two towers are located on the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid

Uses: They are office buildings used by employees of bankia and realia.

Architecture:

They are parallelepipeds shaped, with an inclination of 14.3 degrees, with concrete counterweights; The central core is made of concrete and the facade is built with glass panels.

The two buildings have a lot of style and are very peculiar, it also highlights the inclination that they have to support it thanks to the counterweight .

Niemeyer

Done by: Daniel del Busto and Alejandro Moris from 3rd C
                                                                         Niemeyer

Niemeyers centre is a cultural place where many expositions from all over the world take place. It was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and opened in 2011. He was born in Brazil in 1907 and died 6 years ago. He was known specially for designing this building in this way, in that time architects used to search perfection, lines and inflexible things, however he decided to do it in a curved way. One of his most famous frases says that the world is curved, thats why I designed it like that.

  It is located in Aviles in a northen  city of Asturias, Spain and brings tourists from all around the world thanks to its etravagant and peculiar design.The building by itself its made of white concrete, which is very resistant to humidity, a very intelligent choice. Niemeyer is one of the strangest works in the world because he employed things that society used to think were imperfect. He decided to risk, and he succeded...