The World Trade Center on Manhattan Island in new york is the largest trade organization in the world and the highest in the world.
One of the buildings.
The World Trade Center in New York covers an area of about 6.5 hectares. It is a building consisting of six buildings, costing 700 million dollars.
The group includes a customs building, a hotel, and two dedicated to important government trade institutions and international commodity exhibitions.
Nine-story building and two main buildings-1 1.5m high 1 10-story tower. Both buildings are square columns,
The appearance is exactly the same. Each side is 63.5 meters wide, and each tower covers an area of 466,000 square meters, with a total area of 93.
More than ten thousand square meters. The outer wall of the building is densely arranged steel columns, and the outer surface is covered with silver aluminum plates. The building is under great wind pressure.
Force, under ordinary wind, the roof swings 2.5 cm, and the measured maximum displacement is 28 cm. The whole world trade
There are 50 thousand people working in the center. There are 80 thousand guests every day. There are 46 high-speed elevators in two buildings, and the area is 1 14.
There are eight elevators and eight freight elevators. A passenger elevator can carry up to 55 people. The elevator can go directly to the parking lot that can accommodate 2000 cars.
It is also connected with the subway, which can quickly evacuate the staff and tourists coming and going to the World Trade Center in all directions.
Pompidou Art and Culture Center in Paris, France (1977)
Architects: Rogers and piano.
The total cost of Pompidou Art and Cultural Center is about 480 million francs, with a total area of about 65.438+10,000 square meters, with six floors above ground and underground.
The next four floors. The building has an industrial design center, an institute of music and acoustics, and a museum of modern art and public information.
Knowledge library and corresponding service facilities. The whole building is surrounded by criss-crossing pipes and steel frames, which is nothing like it.
Our common museum looks like a complete chemical plant. This art and cultural center is Italian architect R.
Piano and British architect R Rogers designed it together. They think that modern architecture often ignores the decisive role.
Structure and design. In order to change this old concept, the structure and equipment are particularly prominent and celebrated, with six floors.
Steel structure, elevator. Cables, water pipes and ventilation pipes are hung on the facade, painted in red and green.
The architect intends to design this building as a device similar to a mechanical frame and make the interior a spacious and barrier-free space.
Allow flexible changes to the internal layout. This center is a masterpiece of high-tech architecture in this century.
East Pavilion of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, USA (1978)
Architect: I.M. Pei
For I.M. Pei, the expansion of the National Art Museum is not to create a simple building on the base, but to be influenced by the base.
Conditions, coordination with the original building, status in Washington, demand for architectural plans, etc. , are arduous.
Challenge.
The East Pavilion of the National Gallery of Washington, 1978 was completed, including the exhibition hall and the art research center. Under discussion.
Between the building and the White House, it is the last clearing in front of the White House, and its location is very important. But the shape of this land is not complete.
Inclined wedge (trapezoid). Because the East Pavilion is a part of the whole art museum, its gate must face the year 194 1.
The old museum (neoclassical building) was built. At the same time, the requirements of exhibition hall and research center are combined.
Each has its own entrance and exit, which usually brings some troubles: setting two doors on one surface will make people feel if it is not handled properly.
One is the gate and the other is the "dog hole". The designer divided the trapezoid into two triangles: a large isosceles triangle,
Be an exhibition hall; A smaller right triangle, as the research center. The entrance of the exhibition hall is located at the bottom of the isosceles triangle.
On the side, the small door of the research center is located in the concave seam between two triangles. The whole idea of this building is composed of triangles.
Changed out, there is no ordinary rectangular space. Modeling is casual, concise and solemn and elegant. The center of the exhibition hall is a
Multi-storey space, connected by vertical and horizontal overpasses, with a glass skylight at the top of the central hall and a trestle or pick in the middle.
And a four-way porch. When tourists walk in it, the scene changes with the pace, and the spatial scene changes endlessly. Dongting and classicism
The old museum is adjacent to the nearby U.S. Capitol, which is cooperative in comparison. President Carter personally cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony.
He praised this building as the best art gallery in the world.
Atlanta Museum of Sea Art (1983)
Architect: R. Meyer
American architect R. Meyer is famous for being good at designing art galleries. The external modeling of the Hai Art Museum is complex and changeable, with changeable contours.
Vivid. R Meyer's architectural works are white, and under the sunlight, the light and shade levels are very rich. There is a fan in it.
A-type atrium, the internal space flows continuously horizontally and vertically, and there are thousands of scenes.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Building, China (1985)
Architect: n foster
This is the work of British architect N Foster. Steel columns and steel trusses are obviously exposed in the shape of the building and become facades.
The protagonist. The bottom of the building is completely open, the escalator extends downward from the second floor, and people enter the building from the escalator.
The internal space is also as open as possible. This building shows the achievements of modern science and technology everywhere, belonging to the "high-tech" architectural style, among which
Although this kind of building is not decorated, the actual cost is quite expensive.
Lloyd's of London, UK (1979 ~ 1986)
Architect: Rogers
Richard rodgers, who is good at showing his "high-tech" style with his exposed structure, is today.
One of the most famous architects in the world. The Lloyd's headquarters building he designed in London includes 12 floors.
An insurance business hall that can accommodate 10000 people at the same time and an office building with stepped wings. Architects consider
Considering the possibility of the continuous expansion of the company and the phased expansion of the building, it is planned to adopt the stair tower and main tower wrapped with steel plates in the design.
Main pipes and structural components are exposed in the building. This innovative approach has made many architects
Surprise. It embodies the new image given to the building by the highly developed level of industrialization, making the building sustainable.
Possibility of "growth"
Extension Project of Louvre in Paris, France (1988)
Architect: I.M. Pei
The Louvre expansion project completed in 1988 is an important work of the world famous architect I.M. Pei. Bainite will expand.
Part of it was placed under the Louvre, avoiding the difficulty of narrow space and the conflict between old and new buildings.
The entrance of the extension is located in the center of the main courtyard of the Louvre. One side of this entrance is designed to be 35 meters long. high
2 1.6m glass pyramid. This is I.M. Pei's experience in studying the surrounding buildings, which also confirms I.M. Pei's design and
The close relationship between the environment. The base of the pyramid is 35.4 meters long, and the base is parallel to the building, that is, to the azimuth and Egypt.
The layout of the pyramid is also the same, which strengthens the relationship with the environment. The pyramids are simple and prominent, while the all-glass walls
Clear and bright, no serious congestion. At first, many people opposed the plan, but after the completion of the pyramid, it was widely welcomed.
Approved. Around the glass pyramid, there is a big pool on the other side. The pool turns 45 degrees, and the west triangle is cancelled.
The open space is reserved as the entrance square, and the three corners face the building, forming three triangular small pools adjacent to each other.
The triangular pool of the pyramid looks like a mirror. When the clouds are light and the sun is shining, the glass pyramid reflects the pool and the environment.
This combination adds another side to the building and enriches the landscape. In the corner of the rotating square pool, next to another one.
Four triangular pools of different sizes form another square, which is parallel to the pyramid building. The water in each triangle
There is a huge cylindrical fountain in the pool, which sets off the crystal glass pyramid like a huge crystal column. In Napoleon Square, I.M. Pei will
Architecture and landscape are integrated.