VISUAL ELEMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY

ARCHITECTURE
 1. ZIGZAG WINDOWS
Donald Reiff's mesmerizing Rittenhouse Hotel design

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Philadelphia, USA
https://centercitycondos.com/high-rises/rittenhouse-hotel/
2. TENT-STYLE ROOF
Clark Expo in Pampanga, formerly the Philippine National
Centennial Exposition center or Expo Pilipino
3. SKIN + BONE AESTHETICS
Selfridges Department Store, Birmingham,UK
Seattle Central Library, by Rem Koolhaas of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture,
1999-2004
Seattle Central Library, by Rem Koolhaas of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture,
1999-2004
4. COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
5. IRREGULAR FORM/FREE FORM

Figure 4. Free form type of high-rise buildings: (a) Aqua Tower (Chicago, core and
outrigger system), (b) Burj Al Arab (Dubai, composite frame system with diagonal
steel trusses), (c) Flame Towers (Baku, Azerbaijan, frame tube system) and (d)
Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort, Zhejiang, China (Huzhou, core system)
THE WORKS OF ZAHA HADID
Clad in reinforced concrete and polyester, the 619,000-square-foot Heydar Aliyev
Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, is known for its swooping façade.
Capital Hill Residence was Zaha Hadid's only private residential
design. Located in a forest near Moscow, the $140 million project is
half submerged into the ground.
The Riverside Museum, an addition to the Glasgow
Museum of Transport in Scotland, cuts a striking
figure with its zigzagging zinc-clad roof.

Photo: Allan
Baxter/Getty
Images
Guangzhou Opera
House
1 Zhujiang West
Road
Zhujiang New Town
Tianhe District
Guangzhou
Guangong Province
510623
People's Republic of
China

Zaha Hadid 2010

Guangzhou Opera House, night landscape
he Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) is home to the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design, and the
Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation.
STYLES OF CONTEMPORARY
ARCHITECTURE
• China Wharf by CZWG Architects, 1988 Kindergarten Wolfartsweier by Tomi Ungerer and Ayla
• Bermondsey, London, England Suzan Yöndel, 2002
Karlsruhe, Germany

POSTMODERNISM – Eclectic, brash, diverse,

humorous and colorful architectural style
Feature Animation Building, Walt Disney Company, Burbank, California
RIBA Ref No RIBA3205-45

Architect/Designer Stern, Robert A. M. (1936-)

Artist/Photograph
Blower, Damien
er
Country United States
City Burbank
Subject Date 1994
Image Date 1990
View Exterior
Style Post Modern
Medium Digital image
Library Reference RIBA3205-45
Orientation Landscape
Colour Info Colour
Credit Damien Blower / RIBA Collections

Subject Postmodernism: Playfulness ; Office buildings

 POST MODERNISM

Ting 1 by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor, 2013 Robot Building by Sumet Jumsai, 1986, Bangkok
Örnsköldsvik, Sweden Tailand
NEOVERNACULAR – Reinterprets the “vernacular”, uses
modern material and processed indigenous materials.

THE COCONUT PALACE

GREEN
ARCHITECTURE –
create structures that have
a low impact on the
environment

THE EDGE – AMSTERDAM

Amsterdam's The Edge, which is

being called the world's greenest
building. British environmental
rating agency BREEAM indeed
saw fit to award it the highest
sustainability score it had ever
given out, which is quite the
applause.
ZUELLIG BUILDING- MAKATI
HIGH TECH – AMAZON SPHERE
HIGH TECH – APPLE PARK
 DECONSTRUCTIVISM- characterized by fragmentation
and disunity, with sections and walls colliding at odd angles.

MAXXI, by Zaha Hadid Architects (Rome, Italy)

Completed in 2009 in Rome, Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI is the first Italian public museum devoted to contemporary arts and
architecture. The building coils and turns like a snake, providing visitors moments of architectural surprise on all sides of the
structure. Hadid’s design was selected in an international competition, beating out 273 competing bids. The Iraqi-born
architect often used to say, “There are 359 other degrees, why limit yourself to one?” Visitors to Rome can see that creed
displayed at the MAXXI.
DECONSTRUCTIVISM
• De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde (School of Design
and Arts) is one of the extraordinary pieces of art that stand
out in Manila, Philippines. Seeing for the first time its façade,
it can turn your head upward and wandering every details it
have that is why it can be describe as the most amazing
building in this country because of its uniqueness.
ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE