Saturday, May 7, 2011

Back to the future. Some urban ideas.

World population is growing rapidly, and the land we live on is becoming more and more scarce. Architects and scientists are constantly trying to find more ways to build upwards instead of outwards. They are also trying to combine comfortable standard of living with energy and environment friendly designs. 
I will be showing you here a couple of truly innovative ideas and solutions on how our future urban landscapes might look like.

  It was hard to fit this – Hamburg Skyscraper – into City of Hamburg strict set of municipal laws and guidelines, but, architects: Julia Hoins, Arnd Klasing, David Blezinger and Nikolaus Türk, seem to have done just that. It is a mixed-used complex that combines hotels, housing and offices in one place. Together with comfortable public space and design that keeps it isolated from the traffic noise, this impressive building is showing a lot of future potential.

 Here is one very interesting concept envisioned to be built in Brazil. Tomas Kozelsky, Patrick Bedarf, and Dimitrie Andrei Stefanescu have worked out a way on to build a laminated wood skyscraper in the heart of Amazon forest. It is an elegant and sustainable design.










Lee Dongjin, Park Jinkyu, and Lee Jeongwoo envision a “vertical farm” to be built in South Korea. With spiraling platforms of grass fields, this design will combine urban functionality with the serenity of farm life. And yes, those are cows! xD









And here are a few housing solutions that keep us occupied currently;

Yes, it's the German Reichstag!





One man built a pyramid, triumph gate, roman senate - then opened a coke and feelsgoodman.

33 comments:

  1. Wow, very fascinating buildings.

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  2. Hahahaha, very interesting article but i wasn't expecting minecraft caps to come up! That was awesome :D

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  3. yeah, we should all live under the sea!

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  4. Thats freaking fantastic! + I love the minecraft pics.

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  5. all of these concepts looks amazing! this 3rd one is crazy :O

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  6. Really interesting architecture. I look forward to more environmentally friendly construction.

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  7. I saw the German Reichstag on youtube some time ago, still havent realised how big it is!

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  8. this is not exactly true. We have plenty of space, even resources are plentiful. Its the allocation of resources that is the problem

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  9. Minecraft is the best for making creative things like this... it's like digital legos

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  10. In the future, everything will be built like minecraft! lol.

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  11. I love looking at architectural concepts, great fun ^___^

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  12. I love this futuristic architectural designs, hope I live to see them one day.

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  13. We will be long dead I bet before we see that stuff.

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  14. Building a skyscraper in Amazon = deforestation , but that's a cool design

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  15. these buildings look really interesting, let's see what the future brings us

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  16. Love the hyper-futuristic starting pictures and then the descent into minecraft.

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  17. First sculpture is astonishing, it seems so futuristic yet unique.
    Also, those last two are some epic buildings in MC, must of taken lots of time and mining materials to build.

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  18. I love the vertical farm. It would make gathering up the cows a fun process.

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  19. The Minecraft Reichstag is really impressive

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  20. Very cool, awesome minecraft buildings at the end too haha.

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  21. Great blog!

    I'm your follower nr 100! You should blog about me now :D

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  22. @Pappa Pulli -I promise, tomorrow! :) thx

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  23. It's amazing what the future of architecture holds for us.

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  24. It'll be interesting to see what the future holds for architecture. The vertical farms definitely seem to be a popular idea. The main problem I see is that, well, dirt is quite dense! But by that time, I'm sure the buildings will be strong enough to support such large quantities.

    Also, love those Minecraft creations.

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  25. Some of that minecraft stuff probably took a long time to do legit.

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  26. Minecraft has a lot more potential than it's showing. I'm still waiting for team death matches and things of that caliber.

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  27. For a second, I thought that first pic was a shot from Thor

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  28. Does that cow one actually exist? That would pretty sweet. Unless the cows all jumped off the edge... Fail

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  29. I have a feeling in the future a lot of architecture ideas are going to be done in minecraft!

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  30. The concepts look amazing. Nice job on Minecraft as well. :P

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  31. very cool stuff, especially the korean park
    +followed

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