LONDON+NOW.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,London Now!,Architecture of London,Architecture of London,London,unquestionablly,will attract all attention over the world in 2012.,From the moment London won the bid in July 2005 to host this summers Olympic Games,we know that a fabulous architecture feast will be presented.,Now,lets start a journey towards London to enjoy its complex tastes of architecture.,The 2012 Olympics torch,Olympic Stadium(London),The,Olympic Stadium,inOlympic Park,is designed to be the centrepiece of the2012 Summer Olympicsand 2012 Summer Paralympics(残奥会),and the venue of the athletic events as well as theOlympic Games opening and closing ceremonies.,The architect,Populous,is an architectural firm specialising in the design of sports facilities and convention centres,as well as planning of major special events.,Aquatics Centre,By Zaha Hadid Architects,It was designed byZaha Hadidin 2004 before London won the bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.,The centre was built alongside theWater Polo Arena,and opposite theOlympic Stadiumon the opposite bank of theWaterworks River.,Aquatics Centre,By Zaha Hadid Architects,The facility has been criticized for the two winglike appendages that enclose 15,000 Olympics-mode seats.Their blocky shapes,at least from the exterior,obscure the Aquatics Centres otherwise sinuous forms.But in order to convert the venue into a pool for community use,these wings will be“clipped”after the Games and replaced by glazed facades.,Basketball Arena,While the Aquatics Centre and Stadium were designed to be scaled down after the Games,officials took a much different approach for the Basketball Arena.,We can see from the picture that it is just like a white bread.But it is far from plain white bread.It has plenty of surface articulations.The bays,which have fittings that allow the membrane to be“unzipped”.,It is not merely white but“green”.,Skyscrapers,London has a growing number of Skyscrapers with twelve buildings under construction to rise above 100 metres with a further 44 approved.TheShard London Bridge(topped out in Spring 2012)is the tallest building in the European Union being 310 meter high.,The Shard,By,Renzo Piano Building Workshop,Crystal Palace:An enormous exclamation point on the London skyline,the Shard challenges the citys old notions of fitting in and offers a new approach to high-density growth.,Renzo Piano,the projects architect,compared his design to“a shard(碎片)ofglass.He considered the slender,spire-like form of the tower a positive addition to the London skyline,and believed that its presence would be far more delicate than opponents of the project alleged.,New Court Rothschild Bank,Unlike much new London architecture,this is not an iconic object:So densely built is the neighborhood into which OMAs glass-and-steel frame structure is inserted that theres no way to capture the entire building in a photograph.,There are so many wonderful architecture in this city that I cant present the whole list there for you.,We can only get a glance of them,however,we can touch the mind of the architects in this city.They put all the passion and the love for London to color the blueprint of it.,Some want to remind us of the fantasy history happened in this famous city.And some should lead the city towards a fancy further.,THE END,Thank you for your attention,