叹为观止的世界18座奇特造型建筑

下面这些我们非常喜爱的非凡建筑设计，其中有博物馆、办公楼、住宅和图书馆——并且我们会告诉你为何它们如此吸引眼球。

图1 森林螺旋城

City: Darmstadt, Germany

地点：德国，达姆施塔特

Background: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian architect and painter, designed this building, which contains 105 apartments and a restaurant.

背景：

奥地利着名建筑师和画家百水先生设计了这个建筑，里面有105间公寓和一个餐厅。

How It's Strange: Buildings are not usually this gaudy. "It's fantastical," says Toby Israel, a design psychologist and author of Some Place Like Home. Hundertwasser, known for his colorful, irregular-shaped buildings, chose windows of different shapes and sizes for this apartment. In addition, the building's colors are meant to represent layers of sediment rock.

图2 圣玛丽·艾克斯街30号

City: London

地点：英国，伦敦

Background: This is the second tallest building in the City of London. Opened in 2004, it is commonly referred to as the Gherkin, after the cucumber-like fruit. Its suggestive shape also earned it the nickname "Towering Innuendo."

背景：

这是伦敦市区第二高的建筑。它于2004年投入使用，由于其酷似黄瓜的水果外形，人们一般把它称作“小黄瓜”。其引人联想的外形也衍生出了昵称“高耸的讽刺”

注：

小黄瓜这个名称的由来至少可以追溯到1999年,其所指的是这栋大楼极度非正统(unorthodox)的外观建构。此外,由于大楼外观在某种程度上近似于菲勒斯(阳具)图腾的意象,所以也衍生出了其他的一些昵称如:性爱小黄瓜(Erotic Gherkin),高耸的讽刺(Towering Innuendo,挖苦其因为自身缺陷或不足而建构作为补偿或安慰)以及水晶菲勒斯等(Crystal Phallus)。

1996年崔佛嘉集团提出一份建造伦敦千禧塔的计划,预计兴建一栋总高度386米,总楼层面积90,000平方米,并含有一座305米观景台的摩天大楼。然而,此计划因为遭到反对而作罢,取而代之并获得许可的是原计划的更新版本,改为建造一座高度较低的大楼,也就是现在的圣玛利艾克斯30号大楼。

图3 栖息地 '67

City: Montreal, Canada

地点：加拿大，蒙特利尔

Background: This apartment building was built for Expo 67, the 1967 world exhibition held in Canada. Although Habitat 67 was supposed to provide affordable housing after the Expo ended—much like the stated plans for Vancouver's Olympic Village— its apartments go for luxury apartment prices because of the unique architecture.

背景：

这个公寓建筑是为加拿大1967年世博会而造。虽然当初打算在世博后将其作为廉价住宅——类似于温哥华奥运村的规划——然而由于独特的建筑设计，这里已经成为高档社区。

How It's Strange: The apartments look oddly positioned and disjointed, but Israel says there's actually a purpose behind the design: Habitat 67 is made from 354 cubes, stacked so that no window faces toward another window to provide privacy. "It's unusual-looking," Israel says, "but it's user-friendly."

图4 巨蛋

City: Albany, NY

地点：美国，纽约，奥尔巴尼

Background: This building is the Center for Performing Arts. It holds two theaters for concerts and shows, one seating 450 people and the other with capacity for 892.

背景：

这座建筑是表演艺术中心。其中有两个剧场，音乐厅可容纳450人，演出大厅可容纳892人。

How It's Strange: You won't see many copies of this design because it requires an intensive support system. A heavily-reinforced concrete beam helps maintain the egg shape and transmit its weight to the supporting stem, which extends six stories underground. The end result is a building that looks like a sculpture, with an interior without straight lines or corners.

图5 弗林特石屋

City: Burlingame, Calif.

地点：美国，加利福尼亚，伯灵格姆

Background: Architect William Nicholson designed this home in the 1970s. To construct the unique shapes, builders formed a wire mesh over inflated aeronautical balloons and sprayed them with concrete.

背景：

建筑师威廉·尼克尔森于上世纪70年代设计了这个房子。为了建造奇特的外形，建设者编制了一个铁丝网，将其覆盖在膨胀的飞行气球表面，再往上涂混凝土。

How It's Strange: When people design a residential home, they want it to reflect their personalities and preferences. The dome-shape rooms are different and expressive, but the Flintstone requires a particular buyer, Israel says. "It's not everyone's American dream home."

图6 集装箱城2号

City: London

地点：英国，伦敦

Background: Container City II is a studio space for 22 artists. The Urban Space Management company designs various Container Cities like this one for use as homes, offices and stores.

背景：

集装箱城2号是22位艺术家的工作室。都市空间管理公司设计了各种各样的集装箱城，用于住宅、办公和店铺。

How It's Strange: Container Cities use old shipping containers to create modular buildings that are cheap and quick to build. The colors and design of Container City II were devised "to reflect the creative flair of those who work here," according to the company.