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| Source: Foster + Partners |
Canary Wharf Underground Station, London, UK, 1999 designed by Foster + Partners
the entire roof of the station is laid out as a landscaped park, creating Canary Wharfs principal public recreation space; the only visible station elements are the swelling glass canopies that cover its three entrances and draw daylight deep into the station concourse. -- architect's web site
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| Source: Foster + Partners |
Great Glass House, Carmarthenshire, UK, 2000 designed by Foster + Partners
The largest single-span glasshouse in the world, it contains more than a thousand plant species - many endangered - and conserves specimens from Mediterranean climates around the globe.
The aluminium glazing system and its tubular-steel supporting structure are designed to minimise materials and maximise light transmission. The toroidal roof measures 99 by 55 metres, and rests on twenty-four arches, which spring from a concrete ring beam and rise to 15 metres at the apex of the dome. -- architect's web site
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| Source: Nigel Young – Foster + Partners archdaily.com |
Free University’s Philology Library, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2005 designed by Foster + Partners
As the design progressed, the floor plates evolved into a series of undulating curves, which creates a formal dynamism and spacious double-height mezzanine spaces. The library’s aerodynamic water-drop shaped enclosure was developed to house the maximum amount of floor area within the minimum building envelope, remain in scale with the surrounding buildings, and allow landscaped courtyards on ether side of the library. Its unique cranial form has already earned the library the nickname – the ‘Berlin Brain.’ -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Foster + Partners |
Elephant House, Copenhagen Zoo, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008 designed by Foster + Partners
Covered with lightweight, glazed domes, these spaces maintain a strong visual connection with the sky and changing patterns of daylight. -- architect's web site
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| Source: architectmagazine.com |
Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2011 designed by Murphy/Jahn Architects
An elliptical glass dome—composed of 691 glazed panels and reaching 35 feet tall at its highest point—encloses a 180-seat reading room and a conservation and preservation department. -- ARCHITECT Magazine
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| Source: Felix Gerlach worldarchitecturedirectory.com |
Station Triangle, City Tunnel in Malmö, Sweden, 2011 designed by Sweco Archiects
The entrances have been introduced into the cityscape in the form of pavilions. The entrance facades are built entirely of a structural glazing system that includes both transparent and opaque glass. The load-carrying steel structure is self-supporting, with supports only along the periphery of the buildings, and is an essential part of the architectural design. -- World Architecture Directory
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| Source: Wilkinson Eyre Architects |
Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, 2012 designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Two of the largest climate-controlled conservatories in the world have been constructed as the architectural centrepiece of Singapore’s new 54-hectare Bay South Garden, the first completed part of the spectacular Gardens by the Bay project. The curvilinear conservatory structures have been designed with sustainability as a starting point, with every consideration given to passive climate control techniques. A computer-controlled shading system and carbon neutral cooling technologies have been integrated into the fabric of the building to efficiently maintain the climate within. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Quintin Lake archdaily.com |
Sustainable Hothouse, Møllevejen, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark, 2012 designed by C.F. Møller Architect
The organic form and the large volume, in which the public can go exploring among the tree-tops, present botany and a journey through the different climate zones in a way which will make the new hothouse in Aarhus a future attraction in a pan-European class in hothouse architecture. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Tamás Bujnovszky archdaily.com |
Budapest Underground Line M4 – Bikás Park Station, Budapest, Tétényi Way, Hungary, 2014 designed by PALATIUM Studio
The dome is a slim light-weight structure over the elliptical opening of the platform ceiling, based on a grid of triangles, some of them glazed, some of them solid for shading. -- ArchDaily
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