TOP 10 Greatest Architectural Past 10 Years

The British edition of the Guardian to submit its selection of the ten most impressive buildings and architecture of the last decade.

Millennium Dome, London, 2000.




Exhibition Complex Millennium Dome (Millennium Dome) - a giant "flying saucer", built on the banks of the Thames in the London area.


Blur Expo 02, Yverdon-les-Bains, 2002.




Blair House (Blur Building), designed the pavilion for Swiss EXPO 02 in Yverdon-les-Bains.

Serpentine Pavilion, London, 2002.




Serpentine Pavilion, London, 2002.

30 St Mary Axe, London, 2003.






Tower Mary-Ex, 30, or St. Mary's Ex 30 (born 30 St Mary Axe) - 40-storey skyscraper in London, whose design is made in the form of the retina with a central bearing base. Interestingly unfolds before him the panorama of the city and unusual view of central London. Living in a greenish tint glass and a characteristic shape known as his "cucumber", "gherkin» (The Gherkin).
Located in the financial center of London. Is the headquarters of the company Swiss Re. The first claim to the title of environmental skyscraper. The lower floors of the building are open to all visitors. On the upper floors is a lot of restaurants.

European Southern Observatory Hotel, Cerro Paranal, Chile, 2003.




European Southern Observatory, located in Chile.

Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, 2008.





Beijing National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest» (Bird's Nest), was built for the opening of the Summer Olympic Games-2008.

St. Pancras Station, London, 2007.




St Pancras - the railway station in central London, north-east of the British Library and west of the nearby Kings Cross station.
Named after the nearby church of St. Pankratov. Station building, erected in 1865-68 years. - One of the most striking examples of English neo-Gothic architecture of the Victorian period. After the reconstruction of November 14, 2007 is a terminal for the Eurotunnel. It also trains to the north of England (in particular, in Yorkshire).

Le Viaduc de Millau, Aveyron, 2004.





Millau Viaduct (Millan) (Fr. le Viaduc de Millau) - cable-stayed road bridge that passes through the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France (department of Aveyron). The bridge is the last link in the route A75, providing high-speed traffic from Paris through Clermont-Ferrand to the city of Beziers.

This is the highest traffic bridge in the world, one of its pillars has a height of 341 meters - slightly higher than the Eiffel Tower and only 40 meters lower than the Empire State Building. The bridge was inaugurated on December 14, 2004, and for the movement - December 16, 2004.

Neues Museum, Berlin, 2009.




Cemdesyat years stood closed New Museum (Neues Museum) in Berlin, famous for its Egyptian collection, reopened to visitors on Oct. 17, 2009.


Burj Dubai.





Dubai Tower (Arabic: برج دبي - Burj Dubai) - skyscraper resembling the stalagmite, is almost completed and will be ready for habitation on Jan. 4, 2010 in the largest city in the United Arab Emirates - Dubai.
On July 21, 2007 - the tallest building in the world. C May 19, 2008 - the highest ever building which exists in the world (before this record belonged to the fallen in 1991, the Warsaw radio mast). The exact final height of the buildings still unknown, and the estimated amounts to 818 m (with the number of floors - more than 160). Construction is almost complete.

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Completely Transparent Nokia Cell Phone Concept

Carrying on the trend of awesome transparent gadgets, Colombian designer Juan Carlos Garzon has concocted a phone design for Nokia that adds some transparency to all of your conversations. The touch interface gives a simple and clear view of which buttons you’re mashing, while all of the electronics bits are stored below in the white enclosure.
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Creative transparent house concrete art

A meeting of transparencies that heightens the senses,On occasion of Milan Design Week Italian company Santambrogiomilano showcased the evolution of the Simplicity project, which in 2009 set itself an ambitious goal: architecture. Glass, the absolute protagonist, shapes the load bearing beams, floors, roofs and the colorless walls, the material principle justifies the conception of the whole habitat. The glass reflects the flash of the flame, the green of the vegetable garden, the pink of the seafood, the red of the cuts of meat.

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Top 10 strangest things space

Mini-Black Holes

If a radical new "braneworld" theory of gravity is correct, then scattered throughout our solar system are thousands of tiny black holes, each about the size of an atomic nucleus. Unlike their larger brethren, these mini-black holes are primordial leftovers from the Big Bang and affect space-time differently because of their close association with a fifth dimension




Cosmic Microwave Background

Also known as the CMB, this radiation is a primordial leftover from the Big Bang that birthed the universe. It was first detected during the 1960s as a radio noise that seemed to emanate from everywhere in space. The CMB is regarded as one of the best pieces of evidence for the theoretical Big Bang. Recent precise measurements by the WMAP project place the CMB temperature at -455 degrees Fahrenheit (-270 Celsius).




Dark Matter

Scientists think it makes up the bulk of matter in the universe, but it can neither be seen nor detected directly using current technologies. Candidates range from light-weight neutrinos to invisible black holes. Some scientists question whether dark matter is even real, and suggest that the mysteries it was conjured to solve could be explained by a better understanding of gravity.




Exoplanets

Until about the early 1990s, the only known planets in the universe were the familiar ones in our solar system. Astronomers have since identified more than 190 extrasolar planets (as of June 2006). They range from gargantuan gas worlds whose masses are just shy of being stars to small, rocky ones orbiting dim, red dwarfs. Searches for a second Earth, however, have so far turned up empty. Astronomers generally believe that better technology is likely to eventually reveal several worlds similar to our own




Gravity Waves

Gravity waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. The waves travel at the speed of light, but they are so weak that scientists expect to detect only those created during colossal cosmic events, such as black hole mergers like the one shown above. LIGO and LISA are two detectors designed to spot the elusive waves.




Galactic Cannibalism

Like life on Earth, galaxies can "eat" each other and evolve over time. The Milky Way's neighbor, Andromeda, is currently dining on one of its satellites. More than a dozen star clusters are scattered throughout Andromeda, the cosmic remains of past meals. The image above is from a simulation of Andromeda and our galaxy colliding, an event that will take place in about 3 billion years.




Neutrinos

Neutrinos are electrically neutral, virtually mass-less elementary particles that can pass through miles of lead unhindered. Some are passing through your body as you read this. These "phantom" particles are produced in the inner fires of burning, healthy stars as well as in the supernova explosions of dying stars. Detectors are being embedded underground, beneath the sea, or into a large chunk of ice as part of IceCube, a neutrino-detecting project.




Quasars

These bright beacons shine to us from the edges of the visible universe and are reminders to scientists of our universe's chaotic infancy. Quasars release more energy than hundreds of galaxies combined. The general consensus is that they are monstrous black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies. This image is of quasar 3C 273, photographed in 1979.




Vacuum Energy

Quantum physics tells us that contrary to appearances, empty space is a bubbling brew of "virtual" subatomic particles that are constantly being created and destroyed. The fleeting particles endow every cubic centimeter of space with a certain energy that, according to general relativity, produces an anti-gravitational force that pushes space apart. Nobody knows what's really causing the accelerated expansion of the universe, however.



Antimatter

Like Superman's alter-ego, Bizzaro, the particles making up normal matter also have opposite versions of themselves. An electron has a negative charge, for example, but its anti-matter equivalent, the positron, is positive. Matter and anti-matter annihilate each other when they collide and their mass is converted into pure energy by Einstein's equation E=mc2. Some futuristic spacecraft designs incorporate anti-matter engines.

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