Lloyds Building London, UK
The Lloyd's building is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of London.
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Architectural style: High-tech architecture
Architect Richard Rogers
Office building
Construction started 1978
Completed 1986
Cost £75,000,000
Height Antenna spire 95.1 m
Roof88 m
Floor count 14
Lifts/elevators 12
Tjibaou Cultural Center Noumea, New Caledonia
The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, on the narrow Tinu Peninsula, approximately 8 kilometres northeast of the historic centre of Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, celebrates the vernacular Kanak .
Architect Renzo Piano
National Library of France Paris, France
The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.
Architect Dominique Perrault
The Water Temple is the residence of Ninnaji Shingon, the oldest sect of Tantric Buddhism in Japan, founded in 815. Few projects of Tadao Ando are better than this work; the architect's contribution to the culture of their country. More than just a building, it is a sensory experience that represents a radical change in the Millenary tradition of building temples in Japan.
Water Temple (Shingonshu Honpukuji) (Awaji Island) Japan
Architect Tadao Ando
London Waterloo station is a central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex in the London Borough of Lambeth.
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Layer for underground trains, 2 layers of service & facilities for passengers and a top layer for city trains and a basement car park
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roof that responds to the site
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cladded roof with glass
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serves 15 million passenger per year
Waterloo Station London, UK
Architect Hanz Hollein
Planning: 1981 - 1982 Completion: 1982
Juwelier Schullin II Vienna, Austria
Architects Renzo piano and Richard rogers
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In the 1970′s architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, both unknown at the time, collaborated and erected one of the most famous and radical buildings of our time, Centre Georges Pompidou. The cultural center in Paris, France turned our world inside out, literally. It all began with Georges Pompidou, President of France from 1969 to 1974, who wanted to construct a cultural center in Paris that would attract visitors and be a monumental aspect of the city. Receiving more than 150 million visitors since is completion thirty three years ago, there is no doubt that Pompidou’s vision became a successful reality.
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Their concept, depicted in one of their competition drawings as a collage, was portraying the museum itself as movement. The other concept in their design, and perhaps the most obvious, was exposing all of the infrastructure of the building. The skeleton itself engulfs the building from its exterior, showing all of the different mechanical and structure systems not only so that they could be understood but also to maximize the interior space without interruptions.
Pompidou Center Paris, France
Architect Nicholas Grimshaw
Architect Richard Rogers
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The Embassy Building, completed July 4, 1961, was two and one-half years in construction, at a cost of $1,500,000. All of the wooden furniture was made in Greece, from American designs, by the Sarides Company of Athens, which has made furniture for Embassies of many nations throughout the world. All the fabrics used in the upholstered furniture were created in the United States. Nearly 350 Greek engineers, craftsmen and workmen were employed during the construction of the building.
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Priority was given to the use of local materials. All the marble, cement, tile and plastering materials are Greek products. Most of the fabricated materials came from Western Europe. The items imported form the United States were mainly machinery, such as the air-conditioning, heating and ventilating equipment, pumps and transformers.
American Embassy Vienna, Austria
Architect Eva jiricna
Joseph took over a unit of three different sized floors, totalling 800 sq.m. The existing geometry was unworkable and incoherent, with limited shopfront in relation to the shop’s size. Also the existing spiral staircase was located in a position which neither assisted circulation nor complied with building regulations. Re-locating the stair to the centre of the ground floor was a device to ease circulation, free up previously constrained floor space, and act as a sculptural focus as well as creating a clear orientation link between all levels. A limited palette of materials was selected for the finishes, to achieve a neutral background against which the merchandise would shine.
Completed 1989
Joseph retail shops Staircase London, UK
1- Concepts and design elements
The concept of minimalist architecture is to strip everything down to its essential quality and achieve simplicity.
2- Influences from Japanese tradition
The idea of simplicity appears in many cultures, especially the Japanese traditional culture of Zen Philosophy.
3- Minimalist architects and their works
The Japanese minimalist architect, Tadao Ando conveys the Japanese traditional spirit and his own perception of nature in his works. His design concepts are materials, pure geometry and nature.
Minimalism architecture Evolution
Metabolism Architecture
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Fixed spaces It is fixed to use spaces and not a variable like Aquar movement, services, places of exchange
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Changing spaces And is used varies from time to time, such as housing units.
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Sustainability of buildings May
