Amazing Architecture: 11 Incredible Buildings From The Future (PHOTOS, POLL)

An underwater luxury hotel. A farm suspended over New York City. A rotating skyscraper.

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Design Act designed this incredible building, made up of permutated cubes, for the World Expo 2010 Singapore Pavilion competition.

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[lapennyn]

ignoring context is good, passive heating/cooling should be seen as a waste of time, like the curves on that one, definitely site specific, great junk

[ramblingjohnny]

The ACME United Nations Memorial Borg cube! lolll

[ChristopherAtom]

Prepare for assimilation!

[expat50]

We just finished building a 10 room hotel in Northern Sonora, Mexico. I guess I blew it by not including a missile defense system. And you know retrofitting it will cost more than if it was in the original plan.

[RepugsOut08]

Some are interesting, and some, like the skyline-destroying farm building in NY, are just too strange for their intended location.
The underwater resort might be fun to visit, but I'd be too nervous to sleep soundly in an underwater building that also needed a "misslile defense system."

[aspelling]

While some of these buildings are not much more than design fantasies, we as a nation will soon need to abandon our cookie-cutter-plywood-and-plastic inefficient suburbia homes and live in much more compact and energy efficient cities. Peak oil and peak energy is real and coming.
I would like to live in a city with bright and imaginative architecture rather than gray and cheap-to-build NY style condo complexes.

[twotrees]

I would have liked to see some of Jaqcues Frescos's work in this list.

http://www.thevenusproject.com/

just my .02

[nammy50]

Arts and cultural center in Abu Dabai? Is that an oxymoron?

[PresidentRobertBooth]

Incredible

[pflickner]

ACME United Nations Memorial Space: "We are the Borg. Resistance is futile."

[OxamsRazor]

I know that a lot of people don't like these designs (personally, I love this kind of stuff, but to each his own), but am I the only one who was looking at those and thinking: "Why is Ground Zero still a hole?"

[anothergreenbus]

48. This drawing titled, "The City of the Captive Globe" was also published in the 70's by in the book “Delirious New York.” It is a vision of architecture antithetical to what Walter Gropius envisioned at the Bauhaus. Koolhaas describes the modern condition of the city in this way:

"The city of the Captive Globe is devoted to the artificial conception and accelerated birth of theories, interpretations, proposals and their infliction on the World. It is the capital of Ego, where science, art, poetry and forms of madness compete under ideal conditions to invent, destroy and restore the world of phenomenal Reality."

[anothergreenbus]

Hey slow down!!! This was posted before I edited it - so forget the Gropius part:

"The City of the Captive Globe" from "Delirious New York" - Rem Koolhaas

"The city of the Captive Globe is devoted to the artificial conception and accelerated birth of theories, interpretations, proposals and their infliction on the World. It is the capital of Ego, where science, art, poetry and forms of madness compete under ideal conditions to invent, destroy and restore the world of phenomenal Reality."

[DrCalif]

All gigantic beyond ordinary human proportions. Jung called this "giantism." The Greeks called it "hubris."

[MadHeart]

We haven't even learned that "bigger is not better" yet. And neither is "more".

[NorthSide]

And most regular guys call it baloney....

[chensamabindicka]

Bzzzzzt.Bzzzzzzzzt... In which part of the hive to we eat? Sleep? Procreate? I'm guessing the unglassed walls are where the insectoids ...uh...bee pea?

[misterstudebaker]

These buildings are obscenities. They are not designed for people - they are designed for the vanity of architects and their elite clients. These horrendous structures should be dismantled and their materials put to better use.

[NorthSide]

We don't have to dismantle these buildings.. they only exist in artists drawings for the moment. Apparently a few might be built, but with the current world economy even Dubai is cutting back.

[magicmary]

Why does the "future" have to look so completely divorced from nature? I think this futurism as design concept idea is archaic. It belongs to the 1950's or thereabouts when futurism was big. We're in a green revolution now. I'll take a Taliesin (either one) any day over yet more steel and glass and more fancy a$$ high tech cr@p that only people with huge ego's can appreciate. Why can't buildings be an intimate part of the natural landscape? To me, the future should be about a return to our wonderful natural world. Do no harm, few footprints and all that. Use technology structurally to enhance the strength of a building within it's environment but for god sake don't make technology the design concept!

[NorthSide]

Although Wright's Taliesen complexes have their attractions, I might point out that Wright also designed a mile-high skyscraper for Chicago, the Illinois Building. He thought it would need atomic-powered elevators. I don't think he ever took the idea seriously, but even so....

The atomic elevators would have been cool, though.

[ohiodem250]

In fact, the use of steel, glass and other fabricated materials is that the use of those resources is a much smaller footprint as compared to things like clay, brick, stone, marble, etc. Not to mention, use of materials like wood, brick, clay, rock, etc. usually require the plunder of other nations' resources, meaning the loss of domestic jobs and the usual mistreatment of the foreign nation's workers and natural environment. In fact, most of the structures pictured are probably more harmonious to the natural environment than a Taliesin (who is also very good, too).

[misterstudebaker]

Smaller footprint? Are you high? Steel: dig ore out of the ground. MELT ROCK. Then pass giant magnetic current to pull out the iron. Pour molten iron off into pig iron. REMELT the iron and mix it with carbon and vanadium and nickel (which you get from MELTING MORE ROCK) and then form it into the steel parts you need. Then transport these huge pieces of steel how? Oh that's right - by train and truck. Which are also made out of steel.

And the glass? MELT SAND and then form it into glass.

Now let's see - oil production is flat, but the population keeps going up, so demand is only slacking because of the collapsed economy from the greedy thugs who run the banks.

So, oil prices are due to rise, making steel more expensive and harder to produce.

Then: bricks: form mud into rectangular objects, and at a comparatively low temperature, bake them. Wood? Cut the tree with a saw. The energy for nails is miniscule compared to a girder.

Stones? Smash them into a rough form and make up the difference with cement.

No, sorry to burst your techno bubble but glass and steel towers are thing of the past, and will be FOREVER. So, just deal with it.