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After plans to build the 92-storey Millennium Tower were dropped, 30 St Mary Axe was designed by Foster + Partners and the Arup Group. [12] It was built by Skanska; construction started in 2001. [3] The building has become a recognisable landmark of London, and it is one of the city's most widely recognised examples of contemporary architecture.
30 St Mary Axe, London - known to locals as the Swiss Re Tower or The Gherkin. I took this photo last weekend of the Swiss Re Tower in the City of London. It is a high quality panoramic (four segment vertical) image illustrating both the tower and the contrast of the the very modern architecture of the tower to the more traditional buildings in London.
Biomimetic architecture is a branch of the new science of biomimicry defined and popularized by Janine Benyus in her 1997 book (Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature). ). Biomimicry (bios - life and mimesis - imitate) refers to innovations inspired by nature as one which studies nature and then imitates or takes inspiration from its designs and processes to solve human problem
Hearst Tower in New York City, designed by Norman Foster, uses 21 percent less steel than a standard design. [2] The diagrid obviates the need for columns and can be used to make large column-free expanses of roofing. [3] Another iconic building designed by Foster, 30 St Mary Axe, in London, UK, known as "The Gherkin", also uses the diagrid system.
In video games using procedural world generation, the map seed is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map"). "). This means that while the seed-unique generated map may be many megabytes in size (often generated incrementally and virtually unlimited in potential size), it is possible to reset to the unmodified map, or the unmodified ...
(Schlossberg View Tower) a.k.a. Castle Hill Tower 2002 Freiburg im Breisgau Germany: Hyperboloid observation tower 35 m (115 ft) Hubert Horbach, Freiburg Hitachinaka Power Plant [6] 2003 Hitachinaka Japan: Hyperboloid smokestack 230 m (754 ft) [7] Radio Mast at Krupskoi Street [8] 2003 Perm Russia: Hyperboloid broadcast tower 180 m (591 ft)
Biomimetics or biomimicry is the emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The terms "biomimetics" and "biomimicry" are derived from Ancient Greek : βίος ( bios ), life, and μίμησις ( mīmēsis ), imitation, from μιμεῖσθαι ( mīmeisthai ...
The Biomimicry Institute is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 and based in Missoula, Montana in the United States. [1] Its goal is to help innovators learn from nature in order to design sustainable products, processes, and policies in response to real-world problems. [ 2 ]