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Comparative Architecture
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KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Environmental Design
Department of Architecture
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Eden Project
Eden Project is a huge environmental industrial complex in England. Is a
complex of several domes each of which simulates a particular biological
environment containing numerous varieties of plants from different parts of
the world. Domes made up of hundreds of parts hexagonal shape with some
parts pentagonal shape. Domes made of Material Alatvee plastic. First those
domes mimicked the environment tropics.
Construction of the project took two and a half years, until it was opened to
the public on March 17, 2001. Today, the Eden Project has become one of the
most parts attract visitors in Britain.
Jean-Marie Tjibaou cultural cente
The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, on the narrow Tinu Peninsula, approximately 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) northeast of the historic
centre of Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, celebrates the vernacular Kanak culture, the indigenous culture of New Caledonia,
amidst muchpolitical controversy over the independent status sought by the Kanaks from French colonial rule. It opened in June
1998 and was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and named after Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the leader of the independence movement
who was assassinated in 1989 and who had a vision of establishing a cultural centre which blended the linguistic and artistic
heritage of the Kanak people.
The Kanak building traditions and the resources of modern international architecture were blended by Piano. The formal curved axial
layout, 250 metres (820 ft) long on the top of the ridge, contains ten large conical cases or pavilions (all of different dimensions)
patterned on the traditional Kanak Grand Hut design. The building is surrounded by landscaping which is also inspired by traditional
Kanak design elements. [2] [3] [4] Marie Claude Tjibaou, widow of Jean Marie Tjibaou and current leader of the Agency for the
Development of Kanak Culture (ADCK), observed: "We, the Kanaks, see it as a culmination of a long struggle for the recognition of
our identity; on the French Government's part it is a powerful gesture of restitution.
Richard Rogers master plan of majorca
Parc Balearic Information Technology (ParcBIT) is an initiative by the Balearic Government,
as part of the ExpoCities Project under the European Union Thermie Programme, to
generate a new approach to living and working environments. Drivers of the scheme are
the provision of leading edge telecommunications links, a modern, sustainable and efficient
infrastructure, and a high quality built environment After winning an international
competition in 1994, the practice was commissioned to plan a mixed use live/work community
for some 5,000 inhabitants on a site that lies 12 km north of Palma. Located on agricultural
land next to Mallorca’s university campus, ParcBIT, is bounded to the east and west by
development but by open country to the north. An existing Finca (farm house) which is
preserved in the new plan is sited on the prow of the ridge in the centre of the site,
between two torrent valleys which take water run-off from the mountains to the sea.
Getty Center
The Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is a campus for the J. Paul Getty Trust
founded by oilman J. Paul Getty. The $ 1.3 billion center, which opened on December 16, 1997, [2] is
also well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The center sits atop
a hill connected to a visitors' parking garage at the bottom of the hill by a three-car, cable-pulled
tram. The center draws 1.3 million visitors annually.
It is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. This branch of the museum specializes in "pre-
20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts;
and 19th-and 20th-century American and European photographs". [3] Among the works on display is the
painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh. Besides the museum, the center's buildings house the Getty
Research Institute (GRI), the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the administrative
offices of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which owns and operates the center. The center also has outdoor
sculptures displayed on terraces and in gardens. Designed by architect Richard Meier, the campus
includes a central garden designed by artist Robert Irwin. GRI's separate building contains a research
library with over 900,000 volumes and two million photographs of art and architecture. The center's
design included special provisions to address concerns regarding earthquakes and fires
British Library
The British Library is the national library of the
United Kingdom. The library is a major research
library, holding over 150 million items from many
countries, in many languages and in many formats,
both print and digital: books,manuscripts, journals,
newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings,
videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps,
stamps, prints, drawings.The Library's collections
include around 14 million books, along with
substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical
items dating back as far as 2000 BC. British Library
is one of the two largest libraries in the world, the
other being The Library of Congress.
As a legal deposit library, the British Library
receives copies of all books produced in the United
Kingdom and Ireland, including a significant
proportion of overseas titles distributed in the UK.
It also has a programme for content acquisitions. The
British Library adds some three million items every
year occupying 9.6 kilometres (6.0 mi) of new shelf
space.
The library is a non-departmental public body
sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and
Sport. It is located on the north side of Euston
Road in St Pancras, London (between Euston railway
station and St Pancras railway station) and has a
document storage centre and reading room at Boston
Spa, Wetherby in West Yorkshire.
The library was originally a department of the
British Museum and from the mid-19th century
occupied the famous circular British Museum Reading
Room. It became legally separate in 1973, and by
1997 had moved into its new purpose-built building at
St Pancras, London.