布洛克大樓時代雜誌十大建築榜首
【聯合報╱編譯莊蕙嘉、特派記者藍孝威、記者林琮盛／連線報導】 2007.12.18 08:40 am
↗第一名：美國堪薩斯城尼爾遜艾金斯美術館「布洛克大樓」
最新一期時代雜誌選出今年全球十大建築，美國堪薩斯城尼爾遜艾金斯美術館主建物「布洛克大樓」榮膺榜首，大陸北京建築物也有三棟建物入選十大，分別是奧運主會館、中央電視台總部及北京當代萬國城。時代雜誌報導十大建築之首的布洛克大樓獲選理由：「建築師霍爾以大有可觀的手法更新了古典主義，延伸該美術館的新古典主義風格。一排沿坡而下的建築物晚上發出的光線，在夜空下具有令人著魔的效果。」
↗第二名：舊金山聯邦大廈
霍爾雙響砲一、八名
建築師霍爾（Steven Holl）同時有兩件作品入選，另一件則是名列第八「北京當代萬國城」住商混合建築。第二名的舊金山聯邦大廈是棟環保建築，時代雜誌評論：「這棟政府大樓不只在天空中引人注目，本身也非常環保。地面上運用不鏽鋼網的手風琴褶設計不僅具設計感，還可遮陽。無論任何方面，此建築物成就皆屬最先進者。」
北京奧運主會場的外形是由許多巨大鋼條，以不規則方式編織而成，形狀如同一個鳥巢，因此又稱「鳥巢」體育場，「鳥巢」經減重後造價約廿三億人民幣。鋼架的空隙蓋上半透明的充氣薄膜，兼具防水、透光及省電的功能。由於造型前衛特殊，當時還引起國際輿論注目。「鳥巢」將於明年三月完工。
中央電視台總部大樓則是一棟造型大膽的經典建物，造價逾八億美元，定明年二月結構竣工。從建築技術而言，要完成該項建物是一項高難度的挑戰。其外形如同一個被扭曲的正方形甜甜圈：兩座豎立的雙子星以高傾斜的角度，向內凹陷；雙子塔間有一橫向的連結體，構成一圈閉合的環。這種迴旋式結構，在當今建築界中，還沒有現成的施工規範可依循。
當代萬國城超環保
↗第三名：西雅圖奧運雕塑公園
當代萬國城（moma）則號稱結合西方的環保科技與東方的建築文化，八棟大樓以空中走廊互相連接，提供餐飲、娛樂、健身、購物等服務，讓居住社區成為城市的縮影。建築強調著利用潔淨的、可再生的地熱能源來採暖製冷，為大樓創造終年恆溫恆濕的室內環境。
這項大型社區工程設計了六百九十套住宅單位，面積廣達十五英畝。最特別之處，是室內沒有冷暖空調，全靠往地底鑽了六百六十口地熱井，水沿著地熱井流入深約一百公尺、恆定溫度為攝氏十二點七度的地下基岩，基岩在夏天時冷卻水溫，冬天時則進行加熱，再把水抽出地表，沿著管線送至建築群各家各戶的混凝土地板內。
當代萬國城在國際上屢次獲獎，包括二○○六年「Popular Science 」雜誌評選為「改變人類生活的世界七大工程奇蹟」，和當年美國「Business Week」評選為「中國十大新建築奇蹟」。
The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels詳細資料請參閱：
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1694467,00.html
The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels詳細資料請參閱：
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1694467,00.html
#1 | Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo. Steven Holl Architects
Adding a new wing to a neoclassical museum, Holl devised a spectacular update on classicism: an irregular series of volumes that cascade down the museum's lawn and glow from within. The effect against the nighttime sky is nothing short of magical.
#2 | Federal Building, San Francisco Morphosis
This government office building is not only a smashing addition to the skyline, it's also green to the core. For one thing, its steel-mesh scrim is both a sunscreen and a design element that steps in sharp accordion folds at plaza level. A cutting-edge building, in all ways.
#3 | Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Weiss/Manfredi
The Seattle Art Museum decided to put its sculpture park on an old industrial site crossed by a busy road and a railway line. Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi made the most of it with an intricate switchback pathway that draws nature, art and the city into a dynamic force field.
#4 | IAC Headquarters, New York Frank Gehry Partners
Gehry's exuberant building is an undulating, white glass mesa that uses his characteristic whiplashing lines in a subdued and legible way. The sculptural silhouette is actually a clear expression of the interior floor plates. They just happen to be madly inventive floor plates.
#5 | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Sanaa
The New Museum is on the Bowery, a grimy but gentrifying stretch of lower Manhattan. So Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa gave it a home that's part funky, part shimmery, an asymmetrical stack of boxes covered by a honeycomb of aluminum.
UPCOMING
#6 | Olympic Stadium, Beijing
Athletes at the Summer Games will compete in a nestlike venue by Herzog & de Meuron.
#7 | CCTV Headquarters, Beijing
A tetrahedronal structure by Rem Koolhaas will be the most radically reimagined tall building in the world.
#8 | Linked Hybrid, Beijing
Steven Holl's retail/ office complex will have sky bridges connecting each of its eight towers.
#9 | Heathrow Five, London
Richard Rogers' firm is giving Heathrow a big new terminal under a vast, column-free arch.
#10 | Caja Madrid Tower, Madrid
Norman Foster's oil-and-gas-company headquarters will have rooftop wind turbines.
