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This plugin was done almost two years ago.

This is done almost two years ago. It's a pity that pixel drawing can not show its beautiful detail

OMA designed a fully diagrammatic architecture where theaters of three sizes, small, medium and large, are combined. The medium and large spaces can connect and merge into an extra-large venue

Herzog & de Meuron created a box in Basel, and the exploration of how to innovate with the facade has gradually become an enduring motif for the architects.

The reason why columns in high-rise buildings are usually designed to be massive is not primarily due to the magnitude of vertical loads, but rather due to the building’s height. As height increases, columns are subjected to significant shear forces and bending moments, which are typically addressed by enlarging their cross-sections.
Kerez’s approach allows the columns become as thin as possible, while shear forces and bending moments are transferred to steel tension cables located at the building perimeter. This structural strategy results in extremely slender columns and a refined core structure.

Kerez created a parking garage version of the Jussieu University Library in Bahrain, where the fully curved floor slabs form a kind of topography. The boundaries between levels are dissolved, creating a continuous continuum. Of course, this approach also has structural intentions—otherwise, how else could the beams be eliminated?

Several exhibition halls in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, designed by SANAA, are clustered like a village under a circular roof, creating free and fluid spaces between them.

This is an Chritian Kerez's scheme for Guangzhou Art Museum. It failed, however.

The Centre Pompidou in Paris is an iconic example of high-tech architecture, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Its exposed structural elements, including brightly colored pipes and steel frameworks, create a striking, industrial aesthetic. The building’s skeletal exterior reveals the inner workings of the structure, emphasizing transparency and functionality. This innovative design challenges traditional architectural norms, making the Centre Pompidou a symbol of modernity and technological advancement.

Kolningin Julianaplein is a TOD scheme by OMA in 2002.

This time, OMA did not defeat UNStudio, but they left Singapore with an excellent tensile-structure-based housing solution.

This is an OMA scheme for Guangdong Baosteel Building. But it failed. However, it is still a great work.

Le Corbusier's cruciform residential skyscraper in Plan Voisin. It appears that they appear everywhere.

The Seattle Central Library, designed by OMA and LMN Architects, is a striking glass-and-steel structure completed in 2004, known for its angular, geometric form and innovative interior layout, including the iconic Books Spiral.

The John Hancock Tower in Boston, now 200 Clarendon Street, is a 60-story glass skyscraper and the tallest building in New England. Designed by Henry N. Cobb, it reflects Boston’s historic surroundings with its sleek modernist style.

It takes me 5mins to walk to their from my college. What a great masterpiece, by Morphosis.

Penzoil Place, by Johnson & Burgee, a very elegant modernism design.

It includes Farnsworth House (Mies van der Rohe), Glass House (Phillip Johnson), Maison in Bordeaux (Rem Koolhaas), Margaret Esherick House (Louis Kahn), Maison Ozenfant (Le Corbusier), Sky House (Kikutake Kiyonori), Weissenhof Seidlung Villa (Le Corbusier), Vanna Venturi House (Robert Venturi).

Price Tower, Frank Lloyd Wright's only realized skyscraper, is a 19-story masterpiece in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, completed in 1956. Known as "the tree that escaped the crowded forest," its cantilevered design and triangular plan reflect Wright's organic architecture.