Top 10 Architects

1- David Fisher

2- Frank O. Gehry

3- Antoni Gaudi

4- Herzog and De Meuron

5- Daniel Libeskind

6- Andrea Palladio

7- Schemata Architecture Office

8- Zaha Hadid

9- Richard Rogers

10- Asymptote Architecture

Frank O. Gehry

Frank O. Gehry is a world-renowned architect. His long career has many works from homes to the great museums that have become postcard towns. Frank Owen Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada, February 28, 1929. I think his work is amazing. I like how his buildings are unusual shapes and how he uses a variety of the unusual shapes together for one building. He is definitely going in my top 10 architects.

I got the images and information from this blog:http://abduzeedo.com/

…….I’d recommend taking a look.

The work continues…

Now my magazine is out of the way I can focus on getting the rest of my top 10’s finished.  I’ve been exploring and I have found some designers that I like, they could be contenders for my top 10.  I also found some good illustrators and although I thought i’d got my top 10, i think i may have to reconsider.

Live Your Life in Motion:Dynamic Tower by David Fisher

I don’t know a lot about architecture or architects, so when we were asked to pick our top 10 architects I didn’t know where to start or who to pick.  I decided to ‘google’ modern architecture and there was a design that caught my eye so I explored it further.  That design was of a proposed rotating dynamic tower by David Fisher.

David Fisher is an Israeli-born Italian architect from Florence. Fisher has been designing buildings in urban centers around the world and is the founder and chairman of Dynamic Architecture Group.

The dynamic tower has been billed as the world’s first building in motion (another tower, Suite Vollard in Curitiba, Brazil, has individually rotating floors, but does not change architecturally).  It will be 1,378 ft high with 80 floors and built in Dubai. It is expected to be completed in 2010. Fisher is also planning on building one in Moscow and possibly New York. 

The tower is expected to be architecturally innovative for several reasons:

Uniquely, each floor will be able to rotate independently. This will result in a constantly changing shape of the tower. Each floor will rotate a maximum of 6 metres (20 ft) per minute, or one full rotation in 90 minutes.

It will also be the world’s first prefabricated skyscraper with 40 factory-built modules for each floor. 90% of the tower will be built in a factory and shipped to the construction site. This will allow the entire building to be built in only 22 months. The only part of the tower that will be built at the construction site will be the core. Part of this prefabrication will be the decrease in cost and number of workers (90 instead of 2,000 needed). The total construction time will be more than 30% less than a normal skyscraper of the same size. The majority of the workers will be in factories, where it will be much safer. The modules will be preinstalled including kitchen and bathroom fixtures. The core will serve each floor with a special connection for clean water, based on patented technology used to refuel airplanes in mid-flight.

The entire tower will be powered from wind turbines and solar panels. Enough surplus electricity should be produced to power five other similar sized buildings in the vicinity. The turbines will be located between each of the rotating floors. They could generate up to 1,200,000 kilowatt-hours of energy. The solar panels will be located on the roof.

 I think it’s a great idea and it looks fantastic although I think I’d have to see it to believe it. I’d be interested in going to see it when it’s completed. I also think that it will have an influence on modern architecture, bringing a new approach and flexibility.  

Here are two clips of the proposed dynamic tower:-