the architecture, Richard Rogers

Buildings which are full of light, which are light in weight, which are flexible, which have low energy, which are what we call legible, you can read how the building is put together. That’s how we get rhythm and poetry out of it.

Richard Rogers

Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito is the winner of the architecture competition for the Opera House to build in Taichung, Taiwan. Irregular geometries give the structure a continuous fluidity, it reflects the idea of theatrical arts.

“Architecture has to follow the diversity of society, and has to reflect that a simple square or cube can’t contain that diversity.”

Toyo Ito

Taichung Metropolitan Opera HouseTaichung City

Taiwan

COR, Oppenheim

A dynamic synergy between architecture, structural engineering, and ecology.

Oppenheim
architecture + design
COR
Miami, Florida

Aquatics Centre, Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid Architects won the competition in February 2005. With its spectacular, sinuous S-shaped roof inspired by the flow of water, and certainly make it as a London landmark, made Lord Rogers, of the Richard Rogers Partnership, who co-chaired the Panel that vote the design said, “this building has an exceptional sculptural quality that will make it a wonderful building to visit, attracting people to East London. It sets the standard for architectural quality in this key regeneration area.”

“The architectural concept of the London Aquatics Centre is inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment in sympathy with the river landscape,” Zaha says as her reaction to lighten and brighten up what has been a very dark and dreary area of London.

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Rove Z Car , Zaha Hadid

The Z Car, or Zaha Car, is a two seater urban concept. The car is in its infancy but there is intended to be a working prototype in the not too distant future. The vehicle was designed by globally reknowned architect Zaha Hadid and will hopefully be followed by models by other key designers.

With a variable wheelbase to allow the car to sit more upright in town, the Z Car is certainly an interesting vehicle. We look forward to the next stage in its development.

“Her buildings are elegant vessels that cut through space...The choice was simple and obvious, but the best things usually are. Good design blurs distinctions about genre, and all her works have movement built into them. The design for a car is an obvious conclusion to the work that preceded it.”

Schachter

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Rem Koolhaas

The office of Rem Koolhaas is on the seventh floor of an unremarkable office block in Rotterdam – a city “without any demands, without any scene, without any culture, without any temptations,” he says. “we live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.”

"architects have never been the main authors of cities. And to the extent that they are, they have only been able to do that in the case of extreme authoritarian systems. And that is a fantastic paradox or tragedy of the architect, that our better impulses are connected to the utopian, but the utopian only works when connected to power. But I think that in any case and with the size of cities now, no one is in charge.”

Rem Koolhaas
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Potsdamer Platz, Richard Rogers

“The completed buildings are striking expressions of the rise of an eco-architecture on a grand urban scale.”

Kenneth Powell

Richard Rogers Partnership
Daimler Chrysler
Potsdamer Platz
Berlin, Germany

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