Renzo Piano is an Italian architect known for his sensitivity and problem-solving techniques. Some of his most prominent works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Shard in London, and the New York Times Building in Manhattan. He strives to create architecture that is art contaminated by many other influences. Piano has received the Pritzker Prize, Royal Gold Medal, and numerous other honors for his contributions to the field.

1. FAMOUS ARCHITECTS AND THEIR
PROMINENT WORKS.
ARCHITECTURE OF
TADAOANDO,FRANKGEHRY,DANIEL
LIBESKIND,RENZOPIANO,ZAHAHADID,
I.M.PEIANDCESARPELI.
BY KELECHI
OGBUAGU
FOR HOUSMITHS LTD

2. TADAO ANDO
ARCHITECT OF LIGHT, KING OF CONCRETE

3.  Born in 1941 in Osaka, Japan
 He was a boxer before deciding to venture into the world of
Architecture
 He did not have a formal training in Architecture but was
self-taught by apprenticing himself to several relevant
persons such as designers and city planners for short periods
 He attended night classes to learn drawing and took
correspondence courses on interior design. He visited
buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis
Kahn, keeping a detailed sketch book which he does up to
this day
 Tadao Ando is highly regarded for his unparalleled work
with concrete, sensitive treatment of natural light, and strong
engagement with nature.
“ …I was studying architecture by
going to see actual buildings, and
reading books about them. “
BIOGRAPHY

4. PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE – 1995
ROYAL GOLD MEDAL – 1997
AIA GOLD MEDAL – 2002
ALVAR AALTO MEDAL – 1985
UIA GOLD MEDAL – 2005
JAMES BEARD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING
RESTAURANT DESIGN – 2008
ISAMU NOGUCHI AWARD - 2016
AWARDS

5. FAMOUS PROJECTS
Image - Forest of Tombs Museum,

6. CHURCH OF LIGHT
1999

7. LOCATION
The Church of the Light is a small structure on
the corner of two streets at Ibaraki, Osaka, a
residential neighborhood. It is located 25 km
north-northeast of Osaka in the western foothills
of the Yodo valley railway corridor. The church
has an area of roughly 113 m²

8. SITE PLAN
CHURCH OF
LIGHT

11. The Church of the Light
consists a 5.9m concrete
volumes(5.9m wide x 17.7m
long x 5.9m high) that is cut
by a freestanding concrete
wall angled at 15°, dividing
the box, creating a direct
connection between the
entrance and the
church. The line created
slices directly through the
window, dividing it and
highlighting the outline of
the wall’s shape, literally
objectifying the plane.

12. 4 X 4 HOUSE
TARUMI-KU, KOBE,
HYOGO, JAPAN, 2003.

13. The houses are located near the Hyogo coast, on the
outskirts of Kobe, along a commercial strip and bordered
by a dual carriageway and train tracks to the North and,
on its other side, by the widest-spanning bridge in Japan,
the Akashi Strait, where the sandy beach meets the Seto
Inland Sea. One of the factors which attracted the
architect’s attention was the view over the island of Awaji,
the epicentre of the Hanshin earthquake in 1995 and
where he built the Temple of Water and the Yumeibutai.
LOCATION

14. Each floor is a concrete mass which together acts like a
lighthouse, dominating the view over the sea. The house
is of minimal dimensions in terms of floor-span:
approximately 4×4 metres which ascends in height
(basement, ground floor and three upper floors).

15. LOCATION KOBE, KANSAI, JAPAN
DATE 2001
STYLE MODERN - MINIMALIST
BUILDING TYPE PUBLIC – MUSEUM
MATERIAL CONCRETE
HYOGO PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF ART

16. TOKYO SKYTREE
Tokyo Skytree is a broadcasting,
restaurant, and observation tower
in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It
became the tallest structure in
Japan in 2010 and reached its full
height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft)
in March 2011, making it the tallest
tower in the world, displacing the
Canton Tower, and the second
tallest structure in the world after
the Burj Khalifa (829.8 m/2,722 ft)
The tower also has seismic
proofing including a central shaft
made of reinforced concrete.

17. VITRA SEMINAR HOUSE,
RHEIN, GERMANY
MEDITATION SPACE,
UNESCO, PARIS
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF
FORTH WORTH, TEXAS, USA
ROKKO HOUSING, JAPAN
SUNTORY MUSEUM IN OSAKA, JAPAN
JAPANESE PAVILION FOR EXPO 92,
SEVILLE SPAIN. THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE
IS OF WOOD COVERED WITH TEFLON

18. FRANK GEHRY
“Liquid architecture. It's like jazz—you improvise, you
work together, you play off each other, you make
something, they make something. And I think it's a way
of—for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city,
and what might happen in the city.”
—Frank Gehry

19. BIOGRAPHY
 Frank Gehry, a Canadian American Architect was born
Frank Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Canada on February
28, 1929.
 Gehry is known for his choice of unusual materials as
well as his architectural philosophy. His selection of
materials such as corrugated metal gives his designs an
unfinished or even crude aesthetic.
 Frank Gehry is known for his professionalism and
adherence to budgets, despite his complex and
ambitious designs. An exception was the
Walt Disney Concert Hall project, which exceeded the
budget by over a hundred and seventy million dollars
and resulted in a costly lawsuit.
 Gehry continues to be one of the world's leading
contemporary architects, and due to his celebrity status,
he has been referred to as a "starchitect"—a label that
Gehry rejects.

20. • 1987: Fellow of American Academy of Arts
and Letters
• 1988: Elected into the National Academy of
Design
• 1989: Pritzker Architecture Prize
• 1992: Praemium Imperiale
• 1994: The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
• 1995: Academy of Achievement's Golden
Plate Award
• 1998: National Medal of Arts
• 1998: Gold Medal Award, Royal Architectural
Institute of Canada
• 1999: AIA Gold Medal, American Institute of
Architects
• 2000: Cooper–Hewitt National Design Award
Lifetime Achievement
• 2002: Companion of the Order of Canada
• 2004: Woodrow Wilson Award for Public
Service
• 2006: Inductee, California Hall of Fame
• 2007: Henry C. Turner Prize for
Innovation in Construction Technology
from the National Building Museum (on
behalf of Gehry Partners and Gehry
Technologies)
• 2009: Order of Charlemagne
• 2012: Twenty-five Year Award, American
Institute of Architects
• 2014: Prince of Asturias Award
• 2014: Commandeur of the Ordre National
de la Légion d'honneur, France
• 2015: J. Paul Getty Medal
• 2016: Harvard Arts Medal
• 2016: Leonore and Walter Annenberg
Award for Diplomacy through the Arts,
Foundation for Arts and Preservation in
Embassies
• 2016: Presidential Medal of Freedom
AWARDS

21. FAMOUS BUILDINGS
Image - Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California

22. Frank Gehry's Neuer Zollhof, Dusseldorf, Germany

23. LOCATION
The New Zollhof is situated at the Eastern edge of
the Rhine River harbor front in downtown
Düsseldorf, near the administrative complex of
the North Rhine Westphalia province.

24. All three buildings are built of concrete flat slab with
punched window openings at the outdoors facade. The
finish cloth on each of the homes is precise. The crucial
workplace constructing is clad absolutely in metallic
panels; the East (tallest) tower is created from curvilinear
volumes completed in plaster, and the West tower is a
grouping of volumes faced in brick.
WEST TOWER
EAST TOWER

25. CHIAT/DAY BUILDING
(BINOCULARS BUILDING)

26. ABOUT THE BINOCULARS (CHIAT/DAY) BUILDING
Clients: Advertisers Jay Chiat (1931-2002) and Guy Day (1930-
2010)
Location: 340 Main Street, Venice, California
Constructed: 1991
Artists & Architects: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, and Frank
Gehry
Binocular Dimensions: 45 x 44 x 18 feet (13.7 x 13.4 x 5.5 meters)
Construction Material of Binoculars: Steel frame with painted
concrete/cement plaster exterior and gypsum plaster
interior
Architectural Style: A type of novelty, postmodern
architecture called mimetic architecture
Design Idea: For an academic project in Italy, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje
van Bruggen had made a small model of "a theater and library
in the form of standing pair of binoculars." The project went
unbuilt, and the model ended up in Frank Gehry's office.

27. Dancing House, Prague,
Czech Republic, 1996
Materials: Steel, glass, precast
concrete. The dome was made
of metal tubes covered with a
mesh of stainless steel
Olympic Fish Pavilion,
Barcelona, Spain, 1992.
A 52m long golden steel-
mesh fish sculpture
Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago,
Illinois, 2004
Material: Stainless steel
BP Pedestrian Bridge, Chicago, llinois,
USA, 2004
285m long and 6.1m wide with a concrete
base, and its deck is covered with hardwood
floor boards. It is designed without handrails,
but uses stainless steel parapets instead.

28. David libeskind

29. BIOGRAPHY
 A Jewish Polish-American Architect, artist,
professor and set designer born on May
12, 1946
 He first studied music at the Łódź
Conservatory before studying architecture
under John Hejduk and Peter Eisenman
at Cooper Union
 Libeskind’s international reputation as an
architect was solidified when in 1989 he
won the competition to build an addition
to the Berlin Museum that would house
the city museum’s collection of objects
related to Jewish history.
 In addition to his architectural projects,
Libeskind has worked with a number of
international design firms to develop
objects, furniture, and industrial fixtures
for interiors of buildings including
sculptures

30. • Gold medal for Architecture at the National Arts
Club (2007)
• RIBA International Award for Wohl Centre at
Bar-Ilan University (2006)
• RIBA International Award for the Imperial War
Museum North (2004)
• RIBA Award for the London Metropolitan
University Graduate Centre (2004)
• Appointed as the first Cultural Ambassador for
Architecture by the U.S. Department of State
(2004)
• Received an Honorary Doctorate of
Architecture from the University of South
Florida.
• In 2003, he received the Leo Baeck Medal for
his humanitarian work promoting tolerance and
social justice.
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the New Bulgarian
University from 2013 in recognition of his
influence on the contemporary architectural
research and practice
• Man of the Year Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of
Art (2004)
• First architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded
to an artist whose work promotes international
understanding and peace (2001)[43]
• Goethe Medal for cultural contribution by the Goethe
Institute (2000)
• Time Magazine Best of 1998 Design Awards for the
Felix Nussbaum Haus (1998)
• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
(1996)
• Venice Biennale First Prize Stone Lion Award for
Palmanova Project (1985)
• National Endowment for the Arts Design Arts Grant
for Studies in Architecture (1983)
• American Institute of Architects Medal for Highest
Scholastic Achievement (1970)
AWARDS

31. FAMOUS BUILDINGS
Image – Museum of Contemporary Art, Milan

32. Daniel Libeskind's Mons Conference center in Belgium
Architects - Studio Libeskind, H2a Architecte &
Associés
Location - Avenue des Bassins, 7000 Mons,
Belgium
Owner - City of Mons
Area - 12500.0 sqm
Project Year - 2015

33. The 12, 500 sq. meter (41,010 sq feet)
Centre is an expression of contrasting
geometric forms. The Center houses a
grand entrance hall, three auditoriums, a
multi-purpose event hall, conference
rooms, offices, a restaurant, an
underground parking and a public roof
terrace.
The building is highly efficient and
sustainable, with a green roof. It has passive
shading, night cooling and fitted with
photovoltaic cells
The Center features three auditoriums of varying sizes:
500; 200; and 100 seats, each fitted with vibrant orange
Tangram seats that Daniel Libeskind designed for
Poltrona Frau/Cassina
In addition to the Forum, which can host special events,
parties and temporary exhibits, the Center features a 380
sq. meter (4,090 sq. ft.) dedicated multi-event space as
well as 16 meeting rooms of varying sizes and with
flexible layouts.

34. Clad in a manner that gives texture and light to the
structure, canted ribbon walls of curved champagne,
anodized, aluminum wrap the form upwards to a prow
that cantilevers over the street to the north
The lower walls are clad with vertical slats of unfinished
Robinia wood that echo the trees in a neighboring park
To the north, at street level the façade appears to lift up
to reveal a glazed entrance, finished with deep blue
aluminum mullions

35. London Metropolitan University
Graduate Center, 2004.
Designed with embossed stainless
steel panels
Frederic C. Hamilton Building,
2006. Titanium-clad structure.
A 7-story building with luxury condos called
the Museum Residences. A metal-and-glass
structure, having a sharp, geometric façade
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin,
2010. An angular glass-and-steel
structure that houses a 2,000-seat
performing arts center
The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, this steel-
clad addition to the Royal Ontario
Museum in Toronto was completed in
2007
Vanke Pavilion, Milan, Italy,
2015. Clad in 4,000 red metallic
tiles

36. Renzo
piano
“Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by
many other things. Contaminated in the best sense
of the word—fed, fertilized by many things.”
– Renzo Piano

37. BIOGRAPHY
• An Italian architect, born on 14th
September, 1937.
• Piano was originally expected to follow the
family tradition and become a builder
but instead chose design, studying
architecture in Milan
• Awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1998, the
Pritzker Jury compared him to Leonardo da
Vinci, Michelangelo, and Brunelleschi,
highlighting "his intellectual curiosity and
problem-solving techniques as broad and
far ranging as those earlier masters of his
native land.“
• His reputation for sensitivity and
coherence has enabled him to build
alongside some of the greatest architectural
works of the 20th century

38.  1989 - Royal Gold Medal
 1990 - Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della
Repubblica Italiana
 1990 - Kyoto Prize
 1994 - Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art.
 1995 - Erasmus Prize
 1995 - Praemium Imperiale
 1998 - Pritzker Architecture Prize.
 2002 - International Union of Architects#UIA Gold
Medal.
 2004 – Honorary doctorate from Columbia University,
New York
 2006 - Gold Medal for Italian Architecture, Milano
 2008 - AIA Gold Medal
 2008 - Sonning Prize
 2013 - Elected into the National Academy of Design in
New York City
 2017 - Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso
X, the Wise
Major awards and honours

39. Image – Nemo Science Centre, Amsterdam,
1997
FAMOUS BUILDINGS

40.  The Shard, also known as Shard of Glass, Shard
London Bridge and formerly London Bridge
Tower was completed in 2012.
 It is a 95-story pyramidal skyscraper standing
309.7m (1,016 ft) high.
 The Shard is the tallest building in the United
Kingdom, the tallest building in the European
Union, the fifth-tallest building in Europe and the
59th-tallest building in the world
 It is also the second-tallest free-standing
structure in the United Kingdom, after the
concrete tower of the Emley Moor transmitting
station
 A mixed-use “vertical city,” it offers more than
56,000 square meters of office space on 25
floors, three floors of restaurants, a 17-story
hotel, 13 floors of apartments and a triple-height
viewing gallery, as well as an open-air viewing
floor on level 72. It is crowned with a steel-
framed pinnacle and clad with shards of glass
designed to blend into the sky

42. The slender pyramidal form was
determined by its suitability to this
mix: large floor plates at the
bottom for offices; restaurants,
public spaces and a hotel located in
the middle; private apartments at
the top of the building. The final
floors accommodate a public
viewing gallery, 240 m above street
level.

43. Paris Courthouse,
Paris, France, 2017.
Area – 62000msq.
The building is a slim,
transparent, 160m tower
of stacked volumes of
decreasing size, laid out
for efficiency and ease
and accommodates up
to 8,800 people per day.
There are 90 courtrooms and nearly all benefit from natural light.
The building is sustainable in that it has an intelligent double-skinned
façade at the East and West that limit energy consumption. It has
photovoltaic panels and green terraces with nearly 400 trees to help
absorb carbon dioxide. It has limited parking spaces to encourage the
estimated 8,000 daily users to use public transport.

44. New York Times
Building, New York,
USA, 2007.
A 52-storey
skyscraper (offices)
constructed with steel
and glass having a
height of 319m
San Francisco Transbay
development California,
USA, 2013.
Structural height –
280.42m
Central St. Giles Court, London,
UK, 2010.
A 15 storeys mixed-use building
Incorporating office, retail,
restaurant and residential use
Building materials : FSC accredited
timber and coloured glazed ceramic
(terracotta) for the façade.

45. Zaha
hadid
QUEEN OF THE CURVE

46. BIOGRAPHY
 Zaha Hadid, in full Dame Zaha Hadid, (born October 31,
1950, Baghdad, Iraq—died March 31, 2016, Miami,
Florida, U.S. aged 65)
 Iraqi-born British architect first studied mathematics in an
American University in Beirut, Lebanon and is known for
her radical deconstructivist designs. In 2004 she became
the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture
Prize.
 In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services
to architecture, and in 2015 she became the first and only
woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the
Royal Institute of British Architects
 She was described by The Guardian of London as the
'Queen of the curve', who "liberated architectural
geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity.“
 She also worked as a furniture designer, a designer of
interior spaces such as restaurants, and a set designer,
notably for the 2014 Los Angeles Philharmonic
production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

47. 1982: Gold Medal Architectural Design, British
Architecture for 59 Eaton Place, London
2000: Honourable Member of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters
2002: Commander of the British Empire
AIA UK Chapter Award
2004: Pritzker Architecture Prize
2010, 2011: Stirling Prize, Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA)
2012: Order of the British Empire, Dames Commander of
the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to
Architecture
2013: European Museum of the Year (Glasgow Riverside
Museum of Transport)
2014: ACADIA ( Association of Computer Aided
Design in Architecture Lifetime Achievement Award
2015: Gold Medal of Honour for the Republic of
Austria
2015: London Building Excellence Award (Serpentine
Sackler Gallery)
2016: World Architecture Community Awards
(Investcorp Building, Messner Mountain Museum
Corones)
2016: Blueprint Award for Architecture
2016: Simon Taylor Award for Lifetime Achievement
2016: Royal Gold Medal, RIBA
MAJOR AWARDS AND HONOURS

48. FAMOUS BUILDINGS
Image: Guangzhou Opera House, China.

49. Name: Vitra Fire Station, Germany
Opened: 1993.
Size: 9,172 square feet( 852 square
meters)
Construction Materials: Exposed,
reinforced Cast in - situ concrete
The Vitra Fire Station is significant as
Zaha Hadid's first major built
architectural work and her earliest
attempt to translate her fantastical,
powerful conceptual drawings into a
functional architectural space.
The impression of this building is that
of “frozen movement.” It is a fitting
architectural mood for a fire station,
which must remain on constant alert;
the design reflects that tension, as
well as the potential to burst into
action at any given moment.
This building proved that Zaha was
capable of moving past her
reputation as a “paper architect” to
creating architectural space that was
as functional as it was radical.
Ironically, this building serves as an
exhibition and special event space.

50. Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion was constructed for Expo
2008 in Zaragoza, Spain.
The enclosed interactive space spans the River Ebro.
It is a hybrid of Pedestrian footbridge (2,500m2) and
Exhibition space (3,915m2 ).
280m long with 68.5m foundations- the deepest ever
built in the country.
It’s fluid, dynamic design interprets the Expo’s
theme: ‘Water and Sustainable Development’

51. BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany,
2005.
Won 2006 RIBA European Award and
German Concrete Award the same year
All of the load-bearing walls, floors, and
office levels are made of cast-in-place
concrete, while the roof structure is
composed of structural steel beams and
space frame construction. The facade is
clad in simple materials of like corrugated
metal, channel glass, and glass curtain
walls
Galaxy SOHO, Beijing, China, 2012
Parametric Design. Four continuous, flowing, non-
edged towers, maximum heights of 220 feet (67
meters), connected in space.
It has 4 Towers 15 Floors (12 Office Floors and 3
Retail Floors).
The exterior of the building is clad in aluminum and
stone while the interior features glass, terrazzo,
stainless steel and glass reinforced gypsum.

52. Broad Art Museum, Michigan, 2012.
Construction Materials: steel and concrete with
pleated stainless steel and glass exterior
Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2005
The Serpentine-Sackler Gallery, London, UK,
2013
In 2010 the Serpentine Gallery won the
tender from The Royal Parks to bring the
Grade II.
PTFE ( Polytetrafluroethylene)was chosen
for the outer layer because of its longevity,
class 0 fire rating and self-cleaning
properties

53. i.m. pei
“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To
become art it must be built on a foundation of
necessity.”
—I.M. Pei
WORLD’S FAMOUS ARCHITECT

54. BIOGRAPHY
 Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei AKA I.M.
Pei, was born on April 26, 1917 ( age 101) in
Guangzhou China.
 In 1935 he began studying architecture in the United
States and eventually earned his B.A. from MIT and his
M.A. from Harvard
 In 1955, Pei formed his own architectural firm, I.M. Pei
& Associates (later Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in 1989).
 He is arguably the greatest living member of the
modernist generation of architects and is noted for his
large but elegantly designed urban buildings and
complexes, his bold and skillful arrangements of
groups of geometric shapes and for his dramatic use
of richly contrasted materials, spaces, and surfaces.
 Pei continues to design innovative structures
throughout the world and has countless honors for his
work within the field of architecture.

55. Major awards and honours
In 1979, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. The same year he won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects(AIA)
In 1983, he was awarded the most prestigious, Nobel award of architecture, the Pritzker Prize
In the same year he won the International Union of Architects (UIA) Gold Medal for Lifetime
Achievement
In 1989, he won the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture ( an award for Outstanding
contributions to the development, promotion and progress of the arts presented byT he Imperial
Family of Japan and The Japan Art Association
On July 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan bestowed the Medal of Liberty upon Pei.
In 1993, President George H.W. Bush awarded him with the Medal Freedom.
In 2003, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian Institution’s
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
In 2010, Pei was awarded with the RIBA Royal Gold Medal
In 2011, 2017 he was awarded The Twenty-five Year Award ( John Hancock East Building and Le
Grande Louvre, respectively)

56. FAMOUS BUILDINGS
Image: Le Grand Louvre, Paris, France, 1989

57. Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong, 1990
BOC stands 70 stories with a height of
367.4m. At the time of its opening in May
1990 it was the tallest building in Asia and
it still remains one of the tallest buildings
in Hong Kong.
It has four shafts that from the building
produce a modern composite structural
system that not only resists high-velocity
winds, but eliminates the need for many
internal vertical supports. As a result, the
Bank of China uses less steel than typical
for a building its size

58. Dallas City Hall, Dallas, USA, 1978 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland,
USA, 1995
Kennedy Library, Boston,
USA, 1979
Miho Museum,
Mihoko Koyama, Japan

59. CESAR PELLI
“Design for me is not a single idea that comes complete
in your mind, not like Athena born with her armor; it is
more like a plant. You start with a small plant and you
allow it to grow,”

60.  Cesar Pelli,was born on Oct. 12, 1926, Tucumán,
Argentina
 By the mid-1990s, Pelli was known for the lightweight,
almost tentlike, appearance of his buildings, which were
often surfaced in glass or a thin stone veneer
 His buildings were well known for their delicacy and thin
appearances mostly faceted with glass or a thin stone
veneer. His projects exhibited profoundly an attraction
and bend towards abstract, crystalline glass shapes
banging with linearity through the use of colored stone
or metal.
 César Pelli’s work is appreciated for being “poetic” and
“fresh” in nature.
 One of the frequently noted characters in his buildings is
the diversity displayed in all of his works. Pelli always
designs with huge sensitivity towards site and every time
surprises the world with his innovative solutions to
architectural problems.
BIOGRAPHY

61. MAJOR AWARDS AND HONOURS
1994, 1986 and 2000 he won AIA Honor Award for Carnegie Hall Tower, Cleveland Clinic and Herring Hall
respectively.
In 1995, Pelli was honored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) with the prestigious Gold Medal
Award
In 2004, he received the Aga Khan Award in Architecture for the Petronas Towers, and their harmony with
Islamic culture in Malaysia.
In 2008, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat presented him with The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime
Achievement Award.
In 2012, Pelli was honored with the platinum Konex Award for architecture and the diamond Konex Award
for visual arts
2016 International Architecture Award – Yale-NUS
2017 Engineering News Record’s National Best Of The Best Healthcare Project for Buerger Center for
Advanced Pediatric Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

62. FAMOUS BUILDINGS
Image - Los Angeles’ Pacific Design Center

63. The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1997
They were the world’s tallest buildings until 2004
It is 1,483 ft (452 meters) high and has 88 floors and 32,000
windows. It has the world’s largest foundation of 120m depth
(appro 400ft). Due to contractor’s unwillingness to work with a
steel structure the two towers are built with high strength
reinforced concrete to reduce vibrations and structural strains
from high winds
Pelli put much efforts to incorporate Islamic motifs and symbols
into the design process that would influence the design and the
detailing of the building.
Pelli used the Rub el Hizb, an important symbol found in many
Islamic cultures, as a way to generate the plan of the building.
The Rub el Hizb is characterized by two overlapping squares, one
rotated 45 degrees, with a circle inscribed in the center.
Pelli used the symbol as the footprints to both towers resulting in
two extruded 8 point towers that reflected Islamic art. Rather than
just leaving the building as a simple extrusion of a preexisting
symbol found in Islamic art and culture, Pelli still worked on the
building façade to create a more elegant and aesthetic look that is
still found in most Islamic morifs

64. National Museum of Art, Osaka,
Japan, 2004.
Titanium coated stainless steel
tubes, resembles the wings of a
butterfly,
Due to the constraints imposed by
the site, the building had to be built
entirely underground.
The steel and glass of the skylight
roof, out of the only elements that
were available above ground.
Responding to the need for a
watertight underground
museum the bulk of the building
is encased in a three-layered,
concrete wall that is almost ten
feet thick. The sheer weight
resists the buoyancy of the
watery soil and also helps the
building provide the necessary
temperature and humidity,
thereby, reducing operating
expense
Gallery
space
Public amenities

65. One Canada Square, London,
1991. It is regarded as London’s
first skyscraper
Torre de Cristal in Madrid,
completed in 2010, is Spain’s tallest
building. It has an energy-saving
double-glazed curtain wall, whose
blinds respond to lighting levels,
and photovoltaic cells on the roof
help heat the building’s water.
Torre Iberdrola in Bilbao, Spain,
2011
features reclaimed concrete, a doubl
wall glass façade, and systems to red
water usage.

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