Aldo Van Eyck designed Burgerweeshuis as an orphanage and community feel for kids outside of Amsterdam in 1960. It included sleeping quarters, a kitchen, a gymnasium, library, and administrative rooms. It is Van Eyck’s vision of balance in community. This design earned him recognition from other architects internationally and he got to establish his humanistic virtues within the project. The building held a capacity of 125 children.
Another building designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown was the Children’s Museum of Houston. This was completed in 1992 and it shows the vibrant and playful designs. This great mixture of fun and classical architecture gave kids in the Houston area classrooms, art studios, and fun places to learn.
Robert Venturi and his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, designed an extension to London’s National Gallery. They are known for putting a contemporary aspect on the design to this building. The extension they designed was 120,000 square feet and opened in 1991. This is a picture of the Gallery and shows the contemporary design that they went with.
The final building, we are going to discuss is The Vancouver House in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This building finished construction in 2016. The design of this building is based on a triangle then when you go up the building the triangle becomes more rectangular. Until you get to the top where it becomes a traditional rectangular housing layout. Every unit has a balcony protruding out making the exterior of buildings look like a honeycomb. The category of the building is neo-futurist style to it.
The third building created by Bjarke Ingles. The building is referred as the VM Houses. Once again, this building is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. The house project consists of two adjacent apartment buildings. The reason why they are called “VM Housing” is because, one was shaped like a V and the other was a M. The VM Houses was one of Ingles’ first building at this scale. The triangular structures protruding out of the building are courtyards the reasoning behind why they were triangles was because that’s all their budget could pay for.
The next building made by Bjarke Ingles. This architectural masterpiece is called Mountain Dwellings also in Copenhagen, Denmark. Each apartment has their own “back yard” with a lawn, but there is a twist. It’s on their roofs. The building is placed on top of the diagonally built parking garage. He made this diagonally because he wanted to create an artificial mountain facing south. The total number of penthouses located in this building is eighty the layout of the apartments is L-shaped.
The architect I got was Bjarke Ingles. This building is called The Big 8, and it is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It gets its name from it particular figure-eight build to it. The building is huge with a square footage of sixty-one thousand. It is a mixer of businesses and housing residency. Housing being at the top floors and businesses being on the bottom floors. The benefits of having residential at the top are the view, sunlight, and fresher air.
The Pinecote Pavillion, which is located at the Crosby Arboretum in Picayune Mississippi, differs from the other landmarks created by E. Fay Jones that I have discussed. Instead of creating a church-type building, Jones decided to attempt to create a simple gathering building. People do not travel here to get married, but simply to discuss important things, socially gather, and use it as a starting point for nature walks as it is built in a beautiful area. All wood is stained and the metal painted in colors that harmonize with the earth and plants.
The final piece of my selection from architect Jean Nouvel is the Nation Museum of Qatar. This museum is by far the coolest looking work by Nouvel in my opinion. The way the clean lines of the circles meet each other to make such cool shapes with windows and doors exemplify how cool Nouvel can get with his art. Once again, this building is in Qatar so I’m not surprised by the amount of luxury and beauty associated with a national museum but this one is really the cherry on top. The museum hosted over 450 thousand people within a year of opening (2019) and it is a very, very cool work of art.
The Anthony Chapel is very similar to the other works of E. Fay Jones in both the ideology, the structure of the building, and the location and use. It is located in the Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the same state and general area his other chapels I have mentioned are located. However, this particular chapel varies from his others in that it was built by his partner, Maurice Jennings.
