1. Herzog & de Meuron’s showroom at VitraHaus, in Weil am Rhein, Germany
Furniture manufacturer Vitra’s
grassy headquarters at the meeting point of France, Germany, and
Switzerland (just outside Basel) has been an architecture destination
since its Frank Gehry–designed museum opened in 1989. There are also
buildings by Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, but the most remarkable sight
may be the new showroom and store designed by the Swiss firm Herzog
& de Meuron. The architects have taken the archetypal pitched-roof
house, elongated it, and stacked 12 of them up like fireplace logs.
Inside, you can follow winding staircases through the dreamlike space
and look for home furnishings.
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A sister property of the ultramodern Andels Hotel in Prague, the Polish
version is notable for its setting, an immense red-brick mill built by
the 19th-century Jewish entrepreneur Izrael Poznanski. The hotel is just
one component of a fantastic cultural and shopping district that
somehow escaped destruction during World War II. An electrical plant
from 1912 is now a disco. An ornate 1877 weaving mill houses restaurants
and shops. And, in a former finishing mill, you’ll now find the Museum of the Factory.
3. Shweeb, in Rotorua, New Zealand
Australian inventor Geoffrey Barnett dreamed up his human-powered monorail while living in Tokyo, when he wished he could pedal above that city’s endless traffic jams. Since 2007, it’s been possible to test-drive Barnett’s fantasy on the world’s first Shweeb, at the Agroventures adventure theme park in Rotorua, New Zealand. Last year, his company, Shweeb Holdings Limited, received $1 million from Google to invest in research on a commuter-powered transit system in a city still to be determined.
4. Vanke Center, in Shenzhen, China
Steven Holl, of Steven Holl Architects, refers to this building as “the
horizontal skyscraper.” Situated in Shenzhen, the building is about as
long as the Empire State Building is tall (1,250 feet) and is mounted on
massive, illuminated stilts, called “cores,” above a network of
tropical gardens. Much of the Vanke Center will be used for offices, but
a 200-plus-room hotel will open in fall 2011, offering an unusually
tranquil retreat in this bustling city.
5. Souk Waqif, in Doha, Qatar
Souk Waqif is the one great public space that remains in Doha, Qatar, a
city that is reinventing itself at lightning speed. In the souk, locals
congregate to dine, smoke shishas, meander through a maze of alleys, and
shop. The 2008 restoration by
designer Mohamed Al Abdullah replaced all structures that seemed at odds
with tradition, revitalizing the historic spot.
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