--- The Most "Futuristic" Buildings ---

[LMich]

Originally Posted by STR

Interesting that almost everyone has picked buildings built in the last 10 years. Honestly, if I were to do this thread, I'd explicitly disallow recent buildings, as everyone is going to think they're the future, until the next style comes around and makes it look like yesterday.

People in this thread (myself included) are lacking perspective on new buildings. I can guarantee most of the buildings posted here will be as dated as RenCen in 10 years.

Post an example of what you mean.

[Comrade]

Though it was never built, the Social Hall Center in Salt Lake City:



It was proposed in the early 00s, the location for the site was all ready to go and then it fell through!

[bryson662001]

This is my town's most futuristic.....Cire Center in Philly......although I am partial to Detroit's Ren Center in this catagory because of it's contrast to the rest of the city.

[vid]

ayearineurope

Antoni Gaudí's Casa Batlló, 101 years old. I kinda like it... It was futuristic at the time.

More on Art Nouveau

[LosAngelesBeauty]

Disney Hall





Westin Bonaventure





Pacific Design Center







Prada Flagship







Caltrans District 7 Headquarters







Theme Building @ LAX

[M.K.]

For museums and Opera Houses, theaters, cinema, there are a lot of examples. The Kunsthaus in Graz is a very good example how different could be. Also the Gaudi bldgs for its time were something different, as different is also example of futuristic, as uncommon comparing with the most bldgs looks like in the same city. So, considering that The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is a good example for sculptor-surrealistic-futuristic
also the Opera House in Sydney is still futuristic in some views as it is very strange, shells from nature pointed at beach

I particularly see Gaudi Buildings not that futuristic, but surrealistic like Salvador Dalí in Bldgs, because the Buildings of Gaudi are Sand sculptors like these ones castles we usually make on the beach in coast. They are not physical bldgs in appearance, they seem to be fluid in some way among the fingers of God, constructing buildings of sand and water. A type of coloids ones. It is like the Oscar Niemeyer buildings. They are big sculptors to be use as bldgs, as they really are more artistic than functional ones. I don't know. So, I do not see Gaudi and Oscar Niemeyer bldgs as futuristic. They are only too different for its time, but I do not see Star Wars, Jetsons, Babylon 5, Alien or Startrek constructions on them....
When the form of the bldg calls organs, nature shapes and all different than boxes of concrete, glass and square harmonic forms, we call something different-futuristic in some timeline...
Artistic, not futuristic: Gaudi ones

Oscar Niemeyer ones

[svs]

How about the library at University of California San Diego? It gas stood in for the Klingon capitol in one of the Star Trek movies and is named after Dr. Seuss, really.

[Hed Kandi]

[bryson662001]

I really hope this thing doesn't get built. Saigon's skyline is becoming confused enough without sticking a giant watering can in the middle of it.

Originally Posted by Hed Kandi

[Goody]

Originally Posted by CGII

Yummy Kidney


Really though, I think that building is wicked bad ass, that is so fucking neat. I dont think its ugly I think its awesome, I really like the angle in the other shot Olga has.

[Magnus1]

Originally Posted by GVNY

What a terrible piece of architecture that is. That city should be ashamed.

no kidding. someone built a sea urchin in the middle of a ultra historic city.

Future buildings will remain functional. The overly arty stuff will remain reserved for museums. Organic looking buildings (such as the one planned for le defense) will continue to be the laughing stock of the general population.

[Xelebes]

Originally Posted by Hed Kandi

Built, Approved, Proposed - Let's See Them !

My Pick...





... And of Course, More to Come !

WORMS!!!!!


*chomp* *gulp*

[olga]

Originally Posted by Goody

I think that building is wicked bad ass, that is so fucking neat. I dont think its ugly I think its awesome

Agreed!

Originally Posted by Magnus1

no kidding. someone built a sea urchin in the middle of a ultra historic city.

I think the location of this building is a huge part of it's awesomeness.

[Magnus1]

still crap.




nice location. what a shame.

[Junctionist]

I'd say Ontario Place in Toronto deserves a mention:

[Goody]

Originally Posted by olga

I think the location of this building is a huge part of it's awesomeness.

Me too, its totaly different, and fresh.

[Happy Valley Freak]

Originally Posted by Hed Kandi

Built, Approved, Proposed - Let's See Them !

My Pick...





... And of Course, More to Come !

wow! I like it!

[STR]

Originally Posted by LMich

Post an example of what you mean.

Look through the thread. With the exception of Transamerica and the Renaissance Center, no building in this thread is very old. Once this period of Neo-Modernism (or whatever the hell you want to call it) is over, how many of these pieces will remain futuristic and timeless as the two older buildings cited above? How many will become dated period pieces?

I firmly belive than deconstructivism will date itself very soon. It just isn't that shocking anymore, and with that gone, its reason for existance goes away as well. Most deconstructivists are media whores, which will only quicken the abandonment of the style.

[malec]

I'm wondering though, which buildings that are being built today do people think will remain great in the future? Sure, a lot will become dated but surely there'll be some that won't.

[vid]

Taipei 101 comes to mind... It's starting to look dated already. Depending on how Burj Dubai turns out, it could face the same fate.

I'd say a good majority of new office buildings in China will look dated soon.