10 BANGUNAN TERUNIK DIDUNIA

Ni dia 10 gedung terunik di dunia... kalo di perhatiin yang unik tu adalah dari segi bentuknya... memang architect yang gila-gila aja yang buat

kita mulai aja.


1. AQUA TOWER USA

Bangunan ini akan berisi 55.000 kaki persegi (5.100 meter persegi) dan eceran ruang kantor, di samping hotel 215 kamar (lantai 1-18), 476 unit hunian sewa (lantai 19-52), dan 263 unit kondominium dan penthouse (lantai 53-80) .. Aqua juga akan membangun pusat kota pertama untuk menggabungkan kondominium, apartemen dan hotel. Strategis Hotels & Resorts telah setuju untuk mengakuisisi pertama hotel 15 lantai ruang setelah selesainya bangunan, tetapi diakhiri dengan $ 84 juta kontrak untuk ruangan pada Agustus 2008, dengan alasan perubahan signifikan dalam lingkungan ekonomi.

Nama 'Aqua' ditugaskan untuk gedung oleh Magellan Development Group LLC. Ini sesuai dengan tema bahari bangunan lain di Timur Lakeshore pembangunan, dan diturunkan dari gelombang-seperti bentuk balkon; menara dekat dengan di tepi Danau Michigan juga mempengaruhi namA.


2. Chicago Spire, USA

puncak Chicago akan menjadi bangunan tertinggi Amerika pada akhir 2010. Ini telah dirancang oleh Santiago Spanyol terkenal arsitek Calatrava. Bangunan 150 lantai sedang dikembangkan oleh Garrett Kelleher dari Shelbourne Development Group Inc dan diharapkan akan selesai pada tahun 2010. Akses ke menara akan dari Lower Lake Shore Drive untuk mengurangi dampak pada lalu lintas di lingkungan - menara diharapkan untuk menambah satu mobil menit dengan pola lalu lintas lokal. Dalam waktu tiga bulan pengumuman gedung, 800 orang telah menghubungi pengembang ingin membeli apartemen di dalam bangunan.


3. Markas Besar CCTV, Cina

Markas Besar CCTV merupakan sebuah pencakar langit di Beijing Central Business District. . Bangunan ini kantor pusat China Central Television.. Terobosan terjadi pada tanggal 22 September 2004 dan fasad bangunan selesai pada Juni 2008. . Rem Koolhaas dan Ole Scheeren dari OMA adalah arsitek yang bertanggung jawab untuk membangun, sementara Arup memberikan desain teknik yang kompleks.. Berdiri pada 234 meter (768 kaki) dan memiliki 54 lantai.

4. Regatta Hotel, Jakarta

Mengambil tema bahari, para pengembang mengatakan 10 menara kecil merupakan kapal berlayar sementara gedung yang lebih besar adalah 'MERCUSUAR'. mercusuar INI yang mencuri menunjukkan bagi kita, mungkin struktur tampak paling luar biasa kita lihat untuk waktu yang lama. Jika akhirnya mencari sesuatu yang dekat dengan gambar-gambar ini kita akan terkesan. AKHIRNYA NEGARA YANG KITA CINTAI INI MASUK HITUNGAN INTERNASIONAL JUGA HE! ^_^

5. Songjiang Hotel, Shanghai

Atkins telah memenangkan kompetisi internasional untuk merancang sebuah hotel resor bintang lima set dalam sebuah tambang yang berisi air yang indah di dekat distrik Songjiang ke Shanghai di Cina. Konsep desain yang menakjubkan Its terinspirasi oleh air alami dan fitur lanskap tambang imajinasi hakim meniadakan persaingan dari dua perusahaan internasional lainnya.

6. Rusia Tower, Rusia

Rusia Tower merupakan sebuah pencakar langit supertinggi yang belum selesai, pembangunan yang dibatalkan, di Pusat Bisnis Internasional Moskow Moskow, Rusia. Konstruksi dimulai pada bulan September 2007, dan direncanakan akan selesai pada tahun 2012. Luas total struktur akan mencakup 520.000 m2 (5.600.000 sq ft), dimana 38% (sekitar 200.000 m2 (2.200.000 sq ft)) akan terletak di bawah tanah. Menara ini akan berisi 118 lantai, 101 elevator, dan parkir bawah tanah untuk menampung 3.680 mobil. toko-toko eceran Komersial akan terletak di dasar gedung. Kapasitas maksimum bangunan diproyeksikan akan sekitar 30.000.

7. Penang Global City Centre, Malaysia

Asymptote desain untuk kompleks PGCC berpusat pada gagasan menciptakan citra baru dan kuat untuk kota Penang dan initatives baru yang terkait dengan pengembangan Koridor Utara Malaysia. Desain elegan dan mencapai kedudukan melalui pelukan simultan dari pemandangan alam dan urbanisme kontemporer. The PGCC akan menjadi daerah baru penting yang melengkapi dan meningkatkan karakteristik unik yang melambangkan Penang sebagai pulau metropolis yang luar biasa.

8. Gazprom Headquarters, Rusia

warna ini, raksasa api 300m kaca bangunan tinggi akan rumah Markas di St Petersburg Gazprom, kerdil semua struktur di sekitarnya, itu tampaknya akan berubah sampai 10 kali per hari tergantung pada posisi matahari. Bangunan ini telah dijuluki 'jagung' oleh penduduk lokal tidak bahagia.

9. Khalifa Burj, Dubai


Burj Dubai adalah struktur buatan manusia tertinggi di dunia. Burj Dubai memiliki nama resmi berubah menjadi Burj Khalifa selama grand opening untuk menghormati presiden UAEHH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Air kondensasi dikumpulkan dari A / C sama dengan sistem sampai 20 kolam renang ukuran Olimpiade per tahun dan pada gilirannya, digunakan untuk lansekap. Lebih dari 330.000 meter kubik beton dan 31.400 metrik ton baja rebar digunakan pada penyelesaian menara. Menara ini terletak di sebuah danau buatan yang dirancang untuk membungkus di sekitar menara dan untuk memberikan pandangan yang dramatis itu.

10. Residence Antilia, India

konstruksi telah dimulai pada antilia tinggal meskipun penentangan dari orang-orang yang melihatnya sebagai 'berlebihan' desain di kota di mana lebih dari 65% penduduk tinggal di daerah kumuh. politik samping dan setelah Anda pulih dari kekagetan melihat sebuah pencakar langit yang menyerupai rak IKEA cd, bangunan itu benar-benar terlihat seperti itu mungkin berhasil sebagai sebuah karya, menakjubkan unik, hijau arsitektur.

Sick of Being Sick

While the world wakes up around me with the lovely sounds of spring, and the sun begins to warm up the over frozen ground, I am going back to bed. After a miserable time of nursing my Gramma back to semi-health from pneumonia a couple of weeks ago, I picked up whatever virus has been keeping every bed at every hospital in town full. Let me just state the obvious: I'm not having fun!

My doctor told me I was in for at least ten days of hell, and although I thought at the time it really wasn't helpful to be told such a thing, I guess it has kept me from panicking too much. I still don't feel a whole heap better at ten days than I did on day one. Alas, I did get one house call out of him, an extra-ordinary circumstance, to be sure. He was afraid I had contracted meningitis, but because the hospitals are so over-run, he came over to my house. I am happy to report, I do not have meningitis. Plus, I now am the proud possessor of antibiotics, something he doesn't give lightly.

Anyway, there isn't much fun to report here, nor do I have the brain power, filled as it is with all assortment of bugs and drugs, to write anything too delightful for your reading pleasure just now. So, I have opted to link you to a few places where my work has recently been published in hopes you might enjoy a poem or two of mine and some of the fine writing of others.

I was honored recently when my grad school professors invited me to publish some of my work on the Goddard Blog along with their own writings and some of the incredible talents of alums and current students.

Yet another poem has been published in The Canary this month by Hip Pocket Press. The editor, Gail Entrekin, has been fabulous to me, and I will be eternally grateful. You don't want to miss reading some of the back issues of this journal if you are a fan of poetry and prose.

Last, but certainly not least, I am linking you to an old article in the Lynchburg News and Advance about the Art Box move to its new location, because this is where you can find the new Art on 12th Studios and Galleries. I rent studio number one with my business partner, Terri Miller. We will be having our first opening to the public on Sunday, April 18th from 2-4:30 pm.

The paintings I chose to share are a couple of my new works in progress, which have been created since moving into my fabulous new space on January 1st of this year. We are excited to finally be officially opening the renovated upstairs spaces to the public. We being myself and a dozen other artists living and working in Lynchburg.

If you live in the area, come on down to the new Art Box on the corner of Grace and 12th Street in downtown Lynchburg, and check out all the great stuff Anne has for sale. Sign up for some of the ongoing classes by several resident artists in a number of media, and by all means, wander upstairs and visit the artists at work. We look forward to seeing you!

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Caribbean Sun Cures Snow Overdose!

Today, I was supposed to be driving to Vermont for my grad school residency. Romantically, I thought it would be lovely to go to Vermont in February. I am always reminded of Bing Crosby and Danny Kay. "Vermont must be lovely this time of year, all that snow and all." I mean lets face it, we never get any snow down here in Forest, Virginia. Oh, the mountains get snow, but here in the valley we get maybe one good snow a year if that. I never dreamed that I would be going to Vermont to get away from the snow. Jeez.

Now, with the promise of Plainfield's mild winter weather (balmy 22 and very little snow on the ground), I can't get to Vermont no matter what I try. Why? Because there may not be snow in Vermont, but there's so much freaking snow in every state between here and there that most of the interstates are closed and all of the airports in the north east as far west as Chicago don't plan on flying any time soon.

Instead, I am stuck in my house, which thankfully has heat and electricity (don't think I'm not grateful), and I must wait until the snow stops. We have not seen green grass for the whole winter. It is buried under several feet of snow. The wind is blowing so hard out there that it sounds like it will tear the roof off, and even the inches of ice on top is not stopping the drift. The garage door is frozen closed, and I might as well move back to northern Indiana.

So, in the interest of fighting the winter blues, I would like to share a few pictures from my recent cruise of the Caribbean. We dubbed the vacation the "Mom and Me 2010 Cruise." My two girlfriends and all of our mothers went with me on the Carnival Legend for all kinds of fun in the sun. Our stops? Grand Caymans, Cozumel, Belize, and Roatan in the Honduras. It was fabulous. Perhaps the sunny images will lend some warmth to our frigid winter hearts...

First, we have the fabulous stingrays of our stingray encounter in Grand Caymans.















The face of the Tulum Ruins in Mexico




















Can you find the hidden Iguana?















Mexican crab in Playa del Carmen.















The view from the top of Altan-Ha Temple in Belize














Oh I loved the Voracious Insect Bats in Belize too!















Alas, the sun must set on all good things.

Thumb Cat Enjoys Snowpocalypse

Ike the Thumb Cat inspects the local snowfall. With his thumbs he can probably make snowballs.

Extended Vacation

The month of me was spectacular, perhaps a bit too good since it translated into my extended vacation from blogging and writing anything beyond my research for graduate school. Actually, the real excuse is a heavy paper dealing with ethics in the making, valuation, and sale of art. This is a subject which brings up horrible memories of a controversial time at Randolph College. I have been reticent to say anything about it for reasons I won't go into here. Suffice it to say, it has been a difficult, complex, and heart wrenching task of reliving an unpleasant past. Although the writing of it is important to my graduate work, and I would not shirk its necessity, it has taken a bit of the joy out of writing for me in the process. Now that the semester is over, and the initial draft is complete, I begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps when I finish my paper, I'll be less cryptic and share my feelings on the events and the subject here. Right now, I am ready to walk away from the whole thing and enjoy my extended vacation. On that note, I leave today for a cruise of the Caribbean. Woohoo!

Anyway, instead of talking about ethics, the environment, and art, lets talk about me. Specifically, the month of me. I promised I would tell you all about it, and then I got selfish and took several months off. I am prone to selfish acts. I'll admit it. Anyway, the month of me was spectacular and I think I may have had the best fortieth birthday of anyone on record in the history of humanity. I'm not even sure I remember everything I did during the month, but the highlights were exceptional.


I started out with a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the National Gallery and the Hirshorne museum. We stayed at the Marriott Courtyard right beside the National Portrait Gallery. Apart from the typical frustration of driving in the convoluted streets of that city and the ridiculous cost of parking, we had a fabulous time walking the streets, enjoying art, eating great food. I got spectacular photos. My favorite is of the amazing sculpture pictured above by Ron Mueck at the Hirshorne and the New York fan who was equally awed by it.

Next was the highlight of my month, Shakori Hills music festival and an entire weekend with many of my dearest friends camping, enjoying and making music, and dancing till our feet ached. My lovely zoo peeps all came out to help me celebrate, as did my partner in crime and art making, Terri, who drove all the way from Lynchburg with an injured back to join the mayhem. She was a great sport! Nikki baked me a cow cake which made me laugh and laugh. Another story for another time. Pete dressed me up like a princess in tiara and jewels, to which Terri added a really cool scepter that lit up and played magical sounds. We sat around camp fires, listened to fantastic music and generally laughed until our sides ached.

But, I haven't even gotten started. My dear friends Kimmy and David cooked up some serious surprises for me along with the rest of my friends in Donna the Buffalo, the best band in the world. So, not only did they bring me fun decorations for the campsite and lovely gifts both in the bag and in their presence, they also had my favorite songs added to the Saturday night set list, dedicated a special version of my all-time favorite song, Conscious Evolution, to me and had my all-time favorite guitarist, Jeb Puryear, wish me a happy birthday, not once, but twice during the show. Wow! I was really floored. Now, you'd think the month of me would end there. I mean, how much more fun can one girl have? Oh, I haven't even gotten started.

After Donna ended what I now think of as my birthday set, we all waltzed on over to the dance tent to dance for several more hours to my second favorite band in the whole world, The Duhks. Maybe it was just the rosy glow of my party, although I really didn't drink that much, so I don't think so, but I feel like that particular set was one of the best I have seen by this talented band. I lost my magical scepter at some point during the show, but the magic seemed to stay with me regardless.

After, Leonard and several of my friends in the band hung out and closed down the dance tent. Then Christian, the drummer, David, and Kimmy and I ended up finished out to rest of the night, literally, laughing until the sun came up over at their campsite. I'm fairly certain the laughter alone lifted several years off my life. So, my actual birthday party ended with three dear friends and partners in mayhem watching the sun come up over the sheep field and wondering at the manliness of those big-boy sheep. They are really quite spectacular in ways we shouldn't discuss here.

As it turns out, the scepter went on to have its own fabulous party and found the perfect home away from me. Apparently, my friend Kath's daughters found it and had all kinds of fun playing with it until they tried brandishing it over the guy in the chicken suit who drives the hay ride tractors around the park. I guess they were trying to turn him into a frog. It didn't work, but he ended up with the magical instrument of birthday power and carried it around the rest of the weekend threatening the unruly children with it. I kept hearing the squeals of delight that followed it's funny electronic sounds, and I figured it was right where it belonged, spreading the magic of joy and laughter throughout the park.

But, fear not. I was still not without its magical powers because the magical fun did not end with the party, as one might expect. No the next day, after one short hour of sleep, as the campers began to rise from their warm sleeping bags, I woke unable to fall back to sleep. Feeling bleary, I opted for a shower and some coffee. So, I dragged myself out of bed, and took care of business. Once I had coffee in hand, I was beginning to feel mildly human again as the sounds of Keith Secola drifted across the main stage field with the unmistakable guitar riffs of Jeb Puryear wandering along the scale. Like a bee to honey, I followed the music and stood near the stage drinking in the sounds, letting the music wake me up.

Perhaps five minutes passed before I was being pulled by one of my herd friends, Gail, towards the stage steps, and led right up onto the stage to become one of the fry bread backup singers for the band. Suddenly, I am on stage directly in front of Jeb with a microphone in front of me singing. How did this happen? I had to laugh. So, I sang along, and danced and generally tried to make myself smaller since I figured most people would rather see Jeb play his guitar than me dancing around and pretending to be a professional singer. Still, it was amazing, a new perspective on the festival and perhaps one of the most fun things I've ever done at Shakori Hills. Thanks Keith. If you ever need a full-time singer, look me up.

Oh, and I cannot forget to mention the best dancing at Shakori every year in the dance tent when Preston Frank takes the stage. That man knows how to play some Zydeco. Put him together with Donna the Buffalo as his band, and you have some of the finest dance music ever played. So, we danced and we danced and we danced for the rest of the day.

Although the weekend was swiftly drawing to a close, I still had one more wonderful thing to come. David's son Riley, who is twelve, decided he wanted to play the drums with his dad's band for the first time during the Friends of Donna the Buffalo ritual closing concert of the festival. Can I tell you, he rocked the house. The musical talent in that family will indeed live on in Riley McCracken. I'm personally looking forward to many years as one of his groupies. We were all very impressed, including Tara, and I get the sense she does not impress easily. Christian Dugas of the Duhks also sang a lovely ballad, but not from his comfort zone behind the drums, but rather in front of the band. Although he seemed a bit nervous about it before the fact, he was impressively composed onstage and sang a hauntingly lovely song for the crowd. It was a spectacular birthday party to be sure. Thanks go out to all my fabulous friends and family who made my birthday one to remember. I love you all!


Photos appear courtesy of Bill Davis. Thanks Bill!

The Month of Me

So, this month I turn forty. I'm actually rather excited about it, not at all freaking out like I did when I turned thirty. This time, I feel like I'm entering the best years of my life. Anyway, as a gift to myself, the month of October has been designated the month of me. This year, I'm doing it up in a big way. Wait until you hear about all the stuff I have planned to celebrate. I'll be blogging about it as I go. After the really shitty end to the month of September, things can only go up from here.

You see, Mom was reading the paper a few nights back, and there in the obits was a photo of one of our dearest friends, Bill Spruill. This man was a constant in our lives, one of those people who could show up unannounced, let himself in the house, and make himself right at home. One of those people you hoped would do just that. Every time he showed up, the world seemed a little bit brighter. Maybe this was because, like the photos, he was always wide open, always laughing, always so full of life. I don't even have a picture where he isn't grinning, head thrown back, eyes all squinted. And, most every picture of him also means everyone else around him is laughing too like the picture above. I cannot believe he's gone.

So, today, I begin the month of me at his memorial paying my respects to one of my favorite people. This might sound a bad way to start the month, but here's the thing. I plan to make a promise to Bill today to live my life as he lived his, like every day was the most important, like the present is all I have , so I'd best make the most of it. Then, after his memorial, Mom and I will take off for DC. We will wake our friend tonight with a fabulous meal in some swanky restaurant, perhaps enjoy their best champagne, raise a glass to him, and tomorrow we will hit the art museums, maybe shop in the village. Bill would have loved that. He would have joined us and soaked up every second. Although I will miss him terribly, its a comfort to know he'll be smiling down on us where ever we go.

Happy trails Bill! May your journey be sweet, and may you see all the things you missed down here on earth. I love you and I'll miss you! Until we meet again...