21st Century Buildings That Look Like Alien Spaceships



We may still be a long way from putting a human colony on Mars, but that doesn’t mean we can’t live like spacemen here on Earth. These 18 trippy buildings — all built since 2000 — look like they’re from another world entirely.

The City Hall of Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, 2002. Architect: Erick Van Egeraat.


The Selfridges store, Birmingham, UK, 2003. Architects: Future Systems.


The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 2003. Architect: Frank Gehry.


Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2005. Architect: Zaha Hadid.


The National Theatre, Beijing, China, 2007. Architect: Paul Andreu.


The Worrell, Weekes and Walcott stand at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, 2007.


The “Mobile Art” exhibition pavilion in Hong Kong, 2008. Architect: Zaha Hadid.


The Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009. Architects: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects


The Guangzhou Opera House, Guangzhou, China, 2010. Architect: Zaha Hadid.


The Flame Towers in Baku, Azerbaijan, 2012. Architects: Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum.


The new Festival Hall in Erl , Austria, 2012. Architects: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects.


The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, 2012. Architect: Zaha Hadid


Galaxy Soho, Beijing, China, 2012. Architect: Zaha Hadid.


The EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012. Architect: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects.


Pierres Vives government department, Montpellier, France, 2012. Architect: Zaha Hadid.


The Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2012. Architect: Zaha Hadid.


The Peoples Meeting Dome, Allinge, Bornholm, Denmark, 2012. Architects: Kristoffer Tejlgaard & Benny Jepsen.


 

0 comments:

Post a Comment