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

[muppet]

Lloyds of London, all stainless steel, air vents, piping, lifts zipping up and down the outside - in short a building turned inside out. This was one of the first 'Hi-tec' buildings, industrial chic and all that par excellence, by Richard Rogers.
Can you believe this was designed in the 1970s? It was unimaginably unlike anything going up at the time, and a big embarrassment when completed - it was everything intended to look like an oil platform just landed in the heart of the city. Of course its become a listed building now and one of Londoners most loved icons. Coming here at nighht and seeing it rise up, all lit up with halogen lights and Bladerunner lifts zooming up and down, truly is spectacular.






detail: every single thing on the building is uniquely designed, even the screws.




the level of detail in a modern building is unsurpassed





hair raising liftshafts, lit eerily up at night (employees loathe and love the experience/ ordeal in equal measure)

[john_mclark]

is there some law out there that says museums have to be so weird looking?

[Exodus]

Refinery deco ?


Marathon wants their design back


I found a couple more pics of that building.




OOPS! Sorry, that's a refinery

[Goody]

Originally Posted by marmorek

Add another one ...





687 Howe R.I.P.

Is that getting built or not?

Because if its not, I think we should take that bitch stretch her out to 1100ft and bring to Boston, Winthrop Square, ugh I would cream my pants if it looked like that.

[Coyett]

Right, here are my picks.

Toyo Ito: Taichung Opera House
http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh77/


CDI Aoyama: Iceberg, Tokyo


Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue: Santa Catelina Market, Barcelona


Peter Cook: Kunsthaus Graz


Reiser Umemoto: 0-14, Dubai


Atelier Tekuto: Lucky Drops, Tokyo

[Exodus]

Originally Posted by ArchWatcher

this guy has a website that has tons of
models he made in this style..
i lost the url but have these few pics...
sooo futuristic (not like Antonio Sant Elia)

I actually like the idea of this one. You get high density housing, but people don't have to share walls. It's almost like having a single family home, but in a multi unit complex. Damn near the best of both worlds for someone who likes high density living. It even looks as though it was designed so that every home has its own private elevator. Very progressive design in the layout alone. Whoever designed this gets the from me.

[Eigenwelt]

Originally Posted by coddat

Hands down....

Yeah, hands down one of the ugliest things I have ever seen in person. The decent look of the glass cladding was the only thing that made me not want to claw my eyes out in protest.

Maybe it's because I am a sculptor, but I find this building's form morally repugnant. I don't have a problem with buildings_as_sculpture, but I'd like it to done right.

And yeah, I know people love this building. To each their own.

Now the Dongbu Finance Building in Seoul... now that's a functional sculpture that I both like and looks futuristic to me.

[muppet]

Originally Posted by Exodus

Refinery deco ?


Marathon wants their design back


I found a couple more pics of that building.




OOPS! Sorry, that's a refinery

OI ya boob, stop taking the mick! Yes, its meant to look industrial, meant to look like an oil platform just landed in the centre, and piss off the clean city suits.

Richard Rogers and Norm Foster designed the iconic HSBC building in Hong Kong, then split up. Rogers went on to do the Pompidou Centre with Renzo Piano, much on the same lines as the other industrial buildings, whilst Foster heavily watered down the industrial content but kept the functionalism, into what you can see now - 40 years later - in the post pomo stylee. Both architects were at one point in the 90s fighting for position as the worlds best architect (then Rogers went and designed the Millennium Dome).

In other words Lloyds, the ultimate in industrial can be seen as the true in-yer-face functionalism, bored with aesthetic. When it was completed most people just didnt get it, said it didnt fit, was too bold. What it is is a factory to finance workers, think Metropolis or Bladerunner.

[Exodus]

^ Actually I would feel right at home working in that building. I used to work in a refinery, and as a matter of fact the one in the pics I posted. I've always thought all the towers lit up at night looked like a mini skyline.

[i_am_hydrogen]

Le Centre Pompidou





Spertus Museum in Chicago is somewhat futuristic. It's under construction.

[olga]

Great thread!

I immediately came to think of Peter Cook's Kunsthaus in Graz, already posted by taiwan ren:



Then, of course, we have Etienne Louis Boullée. Classical and futuristic at the same time:

[Goody]

Originally Posted by taiwan ren

Peter Cook: Kunsthaus Graz

love it

[M.K.]

Well, the topic here is coming very interesting. I like the buildings at all. The Lloyd's one is quite old but I still liked it, because is something uncommon as the appearance is not that good, while it is too industrial. It has something in the complex how the total building is, it is great. The Pompidou Museum in Paris I see too industrial like a factory. For its time was interesting. As museum it is ok like the one in Bilbao also very strange and futuristic. We can not say a futuristic project is wrong, as we don't know how the future will be. The organ in Graz is pretty different one, I like. It is something life organ in middle of the boxes cities, uncommon.
I like the green one and I don't agree much with the sculptor, as sculptors buildings are expensive and difficult to use.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by ArchWatcher

this guy has a website that has tons of
models he made in this style..
i lost the url but have these few pics...
sooo futuristic (not like Antonio Sant Elia)

looks like the venus project.

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.html

[muppet]

Kunsthaus Graz looks like an excised heart. Of an alien.

[ArchWatcher]

Totally is!!
Thanks, this man is futuristic!

jacque fresco

[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.

[Lost Island]

I assume these are starting in the next couple of years, although I don't see much news about them lately. Criterion Place -- proposed for Leeds.

[CGII]

[GVNY]

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