| December 24, 2006 |
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Architectural Wonders 2006
With  this slideshow and accompanying article, Business Week presents a primer on the year's most cutting-edge architecture. Over the past 365 days, a stunning 32-foot-tall glass cube and a 46-story "wonder of green building" joined Manhattan's stable of structural marvels. England welcomed the globe's largest soccer arena, and China constructed the planet's longest over-sea bridge—a record destined to stand only until the Chinese best it themselves with an even longer bridge planned for 2008. In this brave new world, style and sustainability live together in harmony. A building in San Francisco "actively adjusts to weather changes." A house in Santa Monica "waters" and "powers itself." And a home in the suburbs of Boston uses discarded parts from the Big Dig, the city's notoriously botched urban development project. That a house as sleek and clever as this one could rise from a venture as mired in trouble as the Big Dig gives us all hope. (in Architecture) |
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