The New 7 Architectural Wonders

I have always been fascinated with any kind of architectures showing so much artistic talents and magnificent minds...especially those that have been built in a manner of...hmmmm...just a short period of time. Home Architectures as my favorite, for that matter...for my dream house I guess...ahahaha!

Now let me share to you some of those eye-catching creations that the world consider as some of the top-most architectural man-made facilities...nyahahah...wala na gd ah...toinks... ^_^

From the tall tower in Dubai to a contemporary art museum on New York's Lower East Side, noteworthy architecture is springing up around the globe. Conde Nast Traveler's April issue picks seven designs as the "New seven wonders of the architecture world".

They are:

-Cumulus, an exhibit hall at Danfoss Universe, a science and technology museum in Nordborg, Denmark. The building has an irregular roof, all curves and angles, like a bite taken out of a cloud.

What makes this special?...hmmm... The building has an irregular roof, all curves and angles, like a bite taken out of a cloud. Wohoo!...Not so kind of weird for an exhibit hall in a museum, I guess. But sure it does look peculiar.. ^_^

-Burj Dubai, is a skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure on Earth. Construction began on September 21, 2004, and it is expected to be completed and ready for occupation in September 2009. As of 12 May 2008, Burj Dubai has reached a height of 636 m (2,087 ft), with more than 160 completed floors. The final height is a secret (due to its competitors who are trying to plan and propose similar structures of some sort) but its developer, Emaar Properties, has previously said it will stop somewhere above 2,275 feet and will exceed 160 floors.

Burj Dubai's final milestone will be to surpass the Warsaw radio mast in Konstantynów near Gąbin, Poland (which stood at 646.4 m (2,121 ft) until it collapsed in 1991) to become the world's tallest structure of any type ever built. Burj Dubai has been designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that will include 30,000 homes, nine hotels such as the Burj Dubai Lake Hotel & Serviced Apartments, 0.03 km² (0.01 sq mi) of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 0.12 km² (0.05 sq mi) man-made Burj Dubai Lake. The silvery glass-sheathed concrete building will give the title of Earth's tallest free-standing structure to the Middle East — a title not held by the region since 1311 AD when Lincoln Cathedral in England surpassed the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which had held the title for almost four millennia.

Just look at how the hunger for competition could blow up the universe with these colossal architectures! Wont these make the planet so overweight? haha..Maybe it's now starting to fall down since it's not only these architectures are growing up in numbers...Imagine earth to be this over populated and over...of everything...bohooo...so scared to think of what's gonna happen...

-London's new Wembley Stadium, s the new stadium in Wembley, located in the London Borough of Brent in London, England. It is owned by The Football Association (FA) via its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Limited, and its primary use is for home games of the England national football team, and the main English domestic football finals. It is also used for pop concerts and other sporting events. The stadium seats 90,000 with no obstructed sight lines. A massive 436-foot-tall, 1,000-foot-long single arch braces the retractable roof. The stadium will be a centerpiece of the 2012 Olympics.

- The New Museum of Contemporary Art, designed to resemble an
off-kilter stack of silvery rectangles, located on the Bowery on Manhattan's once-seedy, now-trendy Lower East Side.

The original museum of Contemporary Art was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world. Over the past five years, the New Museum has exhibited artists from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom among many other countries.

In December 2007, the New Museum opened the doors to its new location on 235 Bowery, at Prince Street. This new facility, designed by the Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA and the New York-based firm Gensler, has greatly expanded the Museum’s exhibitions and space.

-Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., a curved roof made from a patterned grid of glass and steel above shallow pools in the courtyard of the Old Patent Office Building, also known as the Reynolds Center.

The Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, with its elegant glass canopy, was designed by the world-renowned architectural firm Foster + Partners. It is a signature element of the renovated National Historic Landmark building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. The enclosed courtyard provides a distinctive, contemporary accent to the museums' Greek Revival building.

-Red Ribbon, Tanghe River Park, in Qinhuangdao, China, about 180 miles east of Beijing, a steel bench that runs a third of a
mile through a riverbank garden and ecological oasis.

According to the architects, the 20-hectare (50-acre) park is sited on "a river corridor at the outskirts of the fast developing city of Qinhuangdao, with lush vegetation and diverse species but occupied by deserted irrigation structures and garbage dumps." Their aim of preserving the natural habitats along the river while inserting recreational and educational uses was accomplished via the red ribbon and its adjacent boardwalk.

-The Crystal, a controversial new entryway and exhibit space at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, whose sharp, even jagged angles have not been universally loved by the locals. It was designed by Daniel Libeskind.

The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM, is a major museum for world culture and natural history in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The ROM is the fifth largest museum in North America, containing more than six million items and over 40 galleries. It is also the largest museum in Canada. It has notable collections of dinosaurs, Near Eastern and African art, East Asian art, European history, and Canadian history.

The Libeskind design, selected from among 50 entrants in an international competition, saw the award winning Terrace Galleries torn down and replaced with a Deconstructivist crystalline-form clad in 25 percent glass and 75 percent aluminium. The building is named after Michael Lee-Chin, who donated $30 million towards its construction. It houses the new main entrance to the museum, a gift shop, a restaurant (C5 Restaurant and Lounge), a cafeteria (Food Studio), seven additional galleries and Canada's largest temporary exhibition hall in the lower level.

The overall aim of the Crystal is to provide openness and accessibility. It seeks to blur the lines between the public area of the street and the more private area of the museum. The goal is to act as an open threshold where people as well as artifacts animate the spaces. The main lobby is a three-story high atrium, named the Hyacinth Gloria Chen Crystal Court. The lobby is overlooked by balconies and flanked by the J.P. Driscoll Family Stair of Wonders and the Spirit House, an interstitial space formed by the intersection of the east and west crystals, intended as a space of emotional and physical diversion.

But not just these....I also happened to watch the National Geographic Channel and they were able to present some of the most jaw-dropping architectures ever built. Those buildings may have not surpassed the heights of the ones included in the seven wonders but I am sure that they would also leave you breathless. I hope you enjoyed exploring this awesome piece of information that I was able to share to you.. 'Till then.. ;)