Contemporary architecture facts for kids

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in contemporary architecture style, along the Nervión River in downtown Bilbao, with the Maman, a huge spider by Louise Bourgeois.

Contemporary architecture is generally speaking the architecture being made at the present time. The term contemporary architecture is also applied to a range of styles of recently built structures and spaces (broadly speaking - since the 1980s) which are optimized for current use.

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The Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Santiago Calatrava (2001)
Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas, USA by HBRA architects (2001)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas by Tadao Ando (2002)
Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, England by Daniel Libeskind (2002)
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Herzog & de Meuron (2005)
De Young Museum in San Francisco by Herzog & de Meuron (2005)
The Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne, Switzerland by Renzo Piano (2005)
The Denver Art Museum in Denver Colorado, by Daniel Libeskind (2006)
New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, by SANAA (2007)
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Daniel Libeskind (2007)
Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, USA by ADAM Architecture (2008)
The Centre Pompidou-Metz, in Metz, France, by Shigeru Ban (2010)
Whitney Museum of Art in New York City by Renzo Piano (2015)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Mario Botta (front) and Snøhetta {rear} (2016)
Ceiling of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Snøhetta (2016), covered with fiber-reinforced plastic
Auditorio de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain by Santiago Calatrava (2003)
Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles by Frank Gehry (2003)
Interior of the Walt Disney Concert Hall with organ facade designed by Frank Gehry (2003)
Copenhagen Opera House in Copenhagen, Denmark by Henning Larsen (2005)
Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal, by Rem Koolhaas (2005)
Interior of the Casa da Musica by Rem Koolhaas (2005)
The Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee by David M. Schwarz & Earl Swensson (2006)
Interior of the Philharmonie de Paris by Jean Nouvel (2015)
The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron (2017)
30 St Mary Axe (or "The Gherkin") in London, by Norman Foster (2004)
The Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden by Santiago Calatrava (2005)
Eureka Tower in Melbourne, Australia by Fender Katsalidis Architects (2006)
Hearst Tower in New York City by Norman Foster (2006)
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, by Adrian Smith of SOM (2009)
The Abraj Al Bait a complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (2011)
The Shard in London by Renzo Piano, 2012
The Mercury City Tower in Moscow by Frank Williams and partners (2012)
CCTV Headquarters in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas (2012)
De Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (2013)
The One World Trade Center in New York City by David Childs of SOM (2014)
The Shanghai Tower in Shanghai, China by Gensler (2015)
Lakhta Center, in Saint Petersburg (2019)
The Organic Försters Weinterrassen by Udo Heimermann (2000)
Celebration, Florida, USA, by Cooper Robertson (2000)
Gasometer, Vienna, by Coop Himmelb(l)au (2001)
Accordia, Cambridge, England - Alison Brooks (2003 - 2011)
Blue Condominium tower in New York City by Bernard Tschumi (2007)
The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge in Covington, Kentucky by Daniel Libeskind (2008)
Reflections at Keppel Bay apartment complex in Keppel Bay, Singapore by Daniel Libeskind (2011)
Isbjerget housing project in Aarhus, Denmark, inspired by form and color of icebergs (2013)
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California, by Rafael Moneo (2002)
Swaminarayan Akshardham in New Delhi, India by members of the Sompura family (2005)
Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California by SOM (2008)
St. Jude's Anglican Cathedral in Iqaluit, Canada (2012)
Ash-Shaliheen Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei by Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil (2012)
The Northern Lights Cathedral in Alta, Norway, by the Danish architects Schmidt, Hammer and Lassen (2013)
The Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand by Shigeru Ban (2013)
The Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir in Mathura, India, (2016)
American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, USA by David M. Schwarz Architects (2001)
The Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, by Herzog & de Meuron (2005)
Beijing National Stadium by Herzog & de Meuron (2008)
National Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan by Toyo Ito (2009)
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi, by Gerkan, Marg and Partners (2010)
Stadium for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by Populous (2012)
Gazprom Arena in Saint Petersburg, by Kisho Kurokawa (2016)
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar by Arata Isozaki (2004)
Sharp Centre for Design at Ontario College of Art and Design, by William Alsop (2004)
Whitman College at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA by Demetri Porphyrios (2007)
Rolex Learning Center at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland by SANAA (2010)
The "Siamese Towers" at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile by Alejandro Aravena (2013)
Innovation Tower of Hong Kong Polytechnic University by Zaha Hadid (2013)
Dr Chau Chak Wing Building in Sydney, Australia by Frank Gehry (2014)
Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, UK, by Herzog & de Meuron (2015)
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt (2002) by Snøhetta (2002)
Interior of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (2002)
Jacksonville Public Library in Jacksonville, Florida, USA by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (2005)
Seattle Central Library by Rem Koolhaas (2006)
Interior of the Seattle Central Library by Rem Koolhaas (2006)
Halifax Central Library in Halifax, Canada by schmidt hammer lassen architects (2014)
Library and Learning Center of the University of Vienna, by Zaha Hadid (2008)
Helsinki Central Library Oodi
The aquarium of the Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates by DP Architects of Singapore (2008)
The Gold Souk of the Dubai Mall (2008)
Christian Dior Tower in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan by SANAA (2003)
Prada Aoyama store, Tokyo, by Herzog & de Meuron (2003)
The Selfridge's Department Store in Birmingham, England, designed by Future Systems (2003)
Bugis+ (previously Iluma) in Singapore by WOHA (2009)
Louis Vuitton store, Ginza Namiki, Tokyo by Jun Aoki and Associates (2014)
Citylife Shopping District in Milan, by Zaha Hadid (2017)
Interior of Terminal Four of Barajas Airport in Madrid, by Richard Rogers (2007)
Aerial view of Terminal Three of Beijing Capital International Airport (orange roof in center) by Norman Foster (2008)
Express train in the Transportation Center of Terminal Three of Beijing Capital International Airport (2008)
Liège-Guillemins railway station in Liège, Belgium by Santiago Calatrava (2009)
Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin Germany, by Gerkan, Marg and Partners (2006)
Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, China by Massimiliano Fuksas (2014)
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, by Santiago Calatrava (2016)
Interior of the Oculus of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub by Santiago Calatrava (2016)
Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a tilt bridge for bicycles and pedestrians in Newcastle upon Tyne, England by WilkinsonEyre (2001)
The Sundial Bridge in Redding, California by Santiago Calatrava (2004)
Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, Spain by Zaha Hadid (2008)
The Helix Bridge in Singapore by Philip Cox (2010)
The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas by Santiago Calatrava (2012)
The Bandra–Worli Sea Link in Mumbai by Hindustan Construction Company (2010)
Primary school of Gando, Burkina Faso by Diébédo Francis Kéré (2001)
Roofs of BedZED residential project in Hackbridge near London by Bill Dunster (2002)
K2 sustainable apartments in Windsor, Victoria, Australia by DesignInc (2006) features passive solar design, recycled and sustainable materials, photovoltaic cells, wastewater treatment, rainwater collection and solar hot water
Ksar Tafilelt [fr] in Ghardaïa, Algeria (2006), which won the 1st prize for "best sustainable city" at the 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference
CaixaForum Madrid in Spain by Herzog & de Meuron, with green wall by Patrick Blanc (2007)
Green wall of the School of the Arts in Singapore by WOHA (2010)
The Passivhaus Goldsmith Street development in Norwich, England by Mikhail Riches (2019). Winner of the 2019 Stirling Prize.

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