The project of Park of the World has been initiated by a municipal government of the city of Chungju in honor of that now the Secretary general of the United Nations is the native of this city, Ban Ki-Moon. Having stretched on river Namhangang coast, the project becomes the new city center.
The building in the form of an ellipse, the maximum diameter — 60 meters becomes United Nations monument. In a building of 8 floors + a basement floor. In the center — an audience on 1,500 places, and also additional conference halls. From an audience the fine kind on Tangeumdae Natural Park will open.
Rising up a spiral, the building becomes the house for an exhibition in which the history of the United Nations since 1945 till today will speak. The person who is the center of interest of missions of the United Nations, will be integrated into architecture and appearance of "globe". The building will be located in the center of a garden from 192 apple-trees which number is equal to number of the states which are members of the United Nations.
In the modern world you are surprised — as architects of the past could build approximately in one style, according to the general mood of an epoch, and consider it as art?
In Competition on Originality there was a new applicant. Peking bureau MAD has offered the skyscraper project on which each floor gardens will blossom.
The basic feature of a design — not at height, and on horizontal saturation. The tower represents a heap of the floors, one on another where each layer will shift aside, thus creating open space for a patio and gardens. A 385-metre tower name Urban Forest.
By the end of 2009 year architects plan to finish work on the design concept. The tower becomes the third studio in a portfolio. The studio offers new directions for development of city architecture in China. Namely actualization of ecologically steady multiplane structures which would return the nature in cities. The city of Chongking became the fourth on size a city of China in 1997.
The structure of modern high-rise buildings though it's limited to often material possibilities, dynamics and legal aspects, undergoes recently a stage there is nobody revival.
The list of known building receptions has considerably extended for the account of occurrence of modern building materials, such as for example composite frames from a carbon fiber. Experiments in the field of mechanical systems also far behind.
The majority of skyscrapers, nevertheless, are still equipped by the latent and expensive networks of the communications protected by metal pipelines. However, with the advent of HVAC systems architects have reflected on turn in a building of communicative chains.
This movement in architecture — the Structural expressionism — means transformations from the point of view of the form, the organizations or atmospheres. And last is defined by a transparency, exotic illumination and color effects.
There is something surprising that this building is not in the United Arab Emirates as it's possible to assume, and in China. This project of company Emergent could not be, if there was no necessity to hide an electroconducting wire, cables and HIVAC-system. New City Center Emergent's Huaxi is the new approach to decorating of buildings.
Massive as if an iceberg, the building facade amazes a look with the device of the illumination sliding on a facade, it is even more giving similarity to an ice block.
