Tuesday, April 6, 2010

21st Century Architectural Marvels..

Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper
on Monday, January 4, 2010.
The building,
which was originally named Burj Dubai,
was renamed the Burj Khalifa


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The Physalia, aka the "floating garden"
was designed to help allievate water pollution.


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The vessel actually produces more energy
than it consumes.


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Pictured above is a view from the "water garden",
which is part of the main entrance of the Physalia.


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This 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center
in China, completed in 2008,
soars into the clouds at 1,615 feet high.


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This pod-shaped structure in New Zealand,
which houses a restaurant that seats 18 diners
(open for business in 2009),
sits more than 30 feet in the air
in a towering redwood tree.


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A tree house is built a restaurant in one

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Diners get to the restaurant
via a tree-top walkway - "an adventure in itself,"
the architect's Web site boasts.


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The Taipei 101,
also known as the Taipei Financial Center,
is the second largest skyscraper in the world,
standing 1,670 feet high.
It boasts 101 floors above ground
and five floors underground
and was completed in 2004.


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