Sunday, January 2, 2011

SJ 12 - 3 Buildings, 3 Concepts

Petronas Twin Tower

 This building is a Malaysian pride as the idea of this building is distinctive in its own ways. We Malaysians are known in the world because of the very existance of this eye of Malaysia. The concept of this one of a kind building comes from the interlocking of 2 squares which symbolises the Islamic pattern.

Petronas Twin Tower

Burj Khalifa

 The current tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, is Dubai's new urban masterpiece. The radial and spiral building is evocative of the onion domes prevailent in Islamic architecture when viewed from the skies. The concept of the building was derived from the abstraction of the Hymenocallis desert flower.

Burj Khalifa

Eiffel Tower

 The distinctive French building, the Eiffel tower, which was the tallest building in the world once until the rise of the Empire State building. The Eiffel tower is recognized as one of the symbols for Paris, and the engineering wizardry of the building made it almost air resistance. The concept of the Eiffel tower came from the idea of a simple pylon with four columns of lattice work girders, separated at the base and coming together at the top.

Eiffel Tower

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