Crystal Palace /i/22474226/p/286 127
Located in Hyde Park, London, England, the building area is about 74,000 square meters, with three floors and five spans. Designed by British gardener J paxton. It was a pavilion built by Britain in 185 1 for the first World Expo (then known as the "International Exhibition of Industrial Works"). Most of them are iron structures, and the exterior walls and roofs are glass. The whole building is transparent, spacious and bright, so it is known as the "Crystal Palace" and is the most representative building in19th century. 1936165438+1On the evening of October 30th, this famous building was destroyed by a fire, and the ruins remained until 194 1 year. Crystal Palace football team got its name from this.
Glass residence /i/22474226/p/286 135
Located in New Cannan, Connecticut, USA, it is a private residence designed by philip johnson and built in 1949. The building is a glass box, and a red brick column with a diameter of 3 meters contains a fireplace and a bathroom, which divides the internal space into three parts. The smooth and bright steel structure is as close to the inner surface of the glass as possible to reduce shadows and increase transparency. This is an important work that Johnson enjoys a high reputation in the construction industry.
Sike Mansion /i/22474226/p/286 163
Located in the center of new york, USA, with 40 floors and a height of 158m. Designed by Ludwig Misvandro and Philip Johnson, completed in 1958. This is the first pure glass skyscraper, which uses the dyed heat-insulating glass curtain wall just invented at that time. Amber glass accounts for 75% of the external wall area.
The bronze panes are inlaid with bronze, which is elegant and luxurious in many high-rise buildings in new york. The details of the whole building have been carefully scrutinized, concise and meticulous, highlighting the aesthetic quality of materials and techniques.
Pacific Design Center /i/22474226/p/286 167
César Pelli, who is located in Los Angeles, California, USA, created the classic works of "Silver School" at 197 1. The blue building abstractly depicting the theme of the ocean was completed in 1975, which was nicknamed "Blue Whale" by people, and formed a whole with the green building completed in 1988 and the red building completed in 2006. The building area is1200,000 square feet, including 130 exhibition hall, a theater, a conference center and a museum of contemporary art. The smooth glass surface is like a wide screen, reflecting the city scenery on it, and the whole building is like a glass sculpture of abstract art.
Agba Mansion /i/22474226/p/286 175
Located in Barcelona, Spain. Height 140m, with 135 floors above ground and 4 floors underground, with a construction area of 39,000m2. Designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and completed in 1987. The outer wall is wrapped with nearly 60 thousand transparent and translucent glass shutters, which shine like the shell of reptiles at close range; From a distance, it looks like a crystal liquid with endless color changes. Out of the ground, straight into the sky, like a towering tree. At night, the sky is brightly lit, and the whole building is colorful and dazzling.
Glass Pyramid of Louvre /i/22474226/p/286 190
Napoleon's courtyard in the Louvre in Paris, France. The height is 2 1.6m, and the bottom is 35.4m I.M. Pei designed, 1989 completed. The glass pyramid is concise and prominent, and the all-glass wall is transparent and exquisite. Surrounded by a square pool, the mirror-like water surface and the crystal clear pyramid complement each other. There are three small glass pyramids with a height of 5 meters in the south, north and east, which together with seven triangular fountains form a unique beauty of plane and three-dimensional geometry.
Glass image outline /i/22474226/p/286 196
Bernard tschumi, located in Groningen, the Netherlands, designed a temporary building for his music film festival in 1990, which later became the permanent collection of Groningen Museum. The building is a very simple rectangular box, using only one material-glass. Buildings are used to display abstract electronic images, and the internal display forms a changeable facade, and then the glass reflects various illusions, suggesting infinite space.
The glass dome of the German Reichstag
Located in Berlin, Germany. The main building of Parliament Building was built in 1884, designed by German architect Paul Vallot, with classical style. 1933 On February 27th, the building caught fire and the dome was destroyed. From 65438 to 0999, a famous British architect norman foster designed and built a dome with steel as the skeleton and glass as the curtain wall. This dome, nicknamed "English Egg", is concise and powerful, which embodies the style of contemporary architectural aesthetics and is also a technical masterpiece.
Parliament House in Wales, UK /i/22474226/p/2862 12
Located in Cardiff, on the third floor, designed by Richard Rogers. The building is located by the water, with clear and elegant lines, exquisite design and strong sense of modernity. Most walls are made of glass. From the outside, the interior space is very clear. The whole building pursues "as transparent as possible" and shapes the image of an enlightened government. 1988 the selected scheme was put into use in 2006, and the long wait did not disappoint the world.
Burj Dubai /i/22474226/p/2862 16
Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it is 8 18m high and * * * floor 162, designed by SOM architectural design firm. Burj Dubai is the tallest building in the world, attracting the attention of the whole world. It is estimated that 330,000 cubic meters of concrete, 39,000 metric tons of steel and 6.5438+0.42 million square meters of glass will be used.
Compared with the height of more than 800 meters, glass is no longer the outstanding feature of this building, but for a long time, it is the tallest glass curtain wall building in the world.