Shanghai's Trinity
Chrysler Building's crown is one of the most beautiful architectural piece ever designed and constructed. It's a much better looking tower than that boxy ass Empire State.
Coop Himmelb(l)au: BMW Welt looks spectacular as well
Actually, I love a lot of deconstructivist architecture.
Daniel Libeskind: Royal Ontario Museum
^I really love how they incorporated that fragmented design to the already existing traditional structure. A great juxtaposition of the old and new
Zaha Hadid: Port House Antwerp
Rem Koolhaas: Beijing CCTV
^I can already imagine the headache he gave to structural engineers when he presented his design...haha
Frank Gehry: Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
I also love traditional buildings, I especially love Bahay-na-Bato, which is a colonial style architecture in the Philippines that mixes European and native architecture.
It's kinda sad that efforts to restore and save some of these buildings are almost non-existent. Imagine if a lot of Manila have these sort of architecture, I think it would certainly distinguish itself to many other cities and be in the likes of Paris, Rome, London for having such quaint architecture. Unfortunately, Manila's skyline is dotted with boring boxy concrete twin towers.
I would love to live in a minimalist house that mixes rustic, organic and modernist design.
