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Zlote Tarasy or Golden Terraces, an iconic, undulating, glass-roofed building in Warsaw, Poland, is seen in 2006. The building is an example of 'blobitecture,' a term first used to deride the style but that has since stuck. Due to its complex, organic shapes and unique engineering challenges, blob-architecture structures require the aid of computers to design.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a contemporary art museum in Spain, was designed by architect Frank Gehry. The rolling, metal curves of the building are designed to catch reflected light, and were designed with the aid of computer simulations. The building has been called a spectacular example of deconstructivist architecture, but Gehry denies association with that particular movement.
Seattle's Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Hall of Fame, a museum dedicated to the history of popular music and science fiction, was also designed by Gehry. The structure of the building has been compared by the Seattle Weekly and by Gehry to a smashed electric guitar. The building's curves are said to have been inspired by the classic Fender Stratocaster.
Selfridges departmemt store at Bullring shopping center in Birmingham, England, is seen in this photo. Designed by architects Future Systems, the building's smooth curves are covered by 15,000 aluminum disks.
The Sage Gateshead, located in Gateshead, England, is a music center located on the River Tyne. The curved glass and steel structure was designed by Foster and Partners and opened in 2004. The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is seen in the foreground.
London's City Hall, designed by Norman Foster, is located on the River Thames. The unusual shape, a distorted sphere or egg shape, was designed for energy efficiency.
Frank Gehry's Nationale-Nederlanden, or Dancing House, in downtown Prague, Czech Republic, resembles a pair of dancers and was originally named 'Fred and Ginger.' The deconstructivist-style building was initially controversial.
The Kusthaus museum, located in Graz, Austria, was built in 2003 and designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. The 'blobitecture' structure has been called 'the friendly alien' by its creators. Despite its distinct differences with the surrounding baroque, red-roofed neighborhood, the building integrates with the facade of a neighboring building from 1847.
Malmö, Sweden's deconstructivist Turning Torso residential building is the tallest building in Sweden. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava and twists 90 degrees from bottom to top.
Allianz Arena, located north of Munich, Germany, is a massive, curving glass and steel structure and the first stadium in the world that can change its exterior color completely.
A glass gondola carries visitors to the top of the Ericsson Globe Arena 427 feet above sea level. The globe is currently the word's largest hemispherical building and represents the sun in Sweden's enormous scale model of the solar system.
Three biomes of the Eden Project, an enormous greenhouse complex in Cornwall, England, are seen. The Eden Project houses plants from all over the world in diverse simulated environments.
The exterior of the MIT Stata Center is seen in Cambridge, Mass. The academic complex was designed by Frank Gehry and is considered by some to be among his best works. Others have criticized the deconstructivist style as chaotic, and architectural theorist Nikos Salingaros has remarked on the irony of housing a scientific institution inside such a disorderly building.
Seattle's Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opened in 2004. A goal of the project was to bring the library into the digital age and to make it seem more inviting to the public. Response to the building has been mixed, however, with some criticizing it as confusing and oppressive.
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Under Hugo Chávez, big businesses endured threats of state takeover. This week, Chávez's successor reached out to the boss of Venezuela's largest privately held company.
In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez's successor seems to be turning toward big business for help in ending rampant scarcities of basic consumer goods and an almost 30 percent annual inflation rate.
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