Sardinia

Italy

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus). It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are (clockwise from north) the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[ ], romanised as sardus (feminine sarda); that the ...
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3 World Trade Center

Planned in New York City, United States

175 Greenwich Street is the address for a new skyscraper approved for construction as part of the World Trade Center reconstruction in New York City. The office building has also been referred to as Three World Trade Center[1] and will be on the east side of Greenwich Street, across the street from the original location of the twin towers that were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Lord Richard Rogers was awarded the contract to design the building, which will be 1,155 feet (352 m) tall. The building slightly resembles the John Hancock Center in Chicago due to its visible belt trusses. The four spires in the design would give the building a ...

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Park an der East Side Gallery

Completed in Berlin, Germany

East Side Park place: Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg competition: 2003 / 1st Prize implementation: 2009 client: Anschutz Entertainment Development Group, Bezirk Friedrichshain Kreuzberg area: 39,720 m2 construction cost: 2,020,000 € The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in one of the busiest moments in the history of modern, urban architecture as innumerable buildings and open spaces became available for development throughout the former Communist east. One of the most famous of these spaces in Berlin is the East Side Gallery, a strip of the original wall that has been left as a monument to the division of the city where artists began painting a mural in the 1990s....

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Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Completed in Chicago, United States

Jay Pritzker Pavilion, also known as Pritzker Pavilion or Pritzker Music Pavilion, is a bandshell in Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located on the south side of Randolph Street and east of the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District. The pavilion was named after Jay Pritzker, whose family is known for owning Hyatt Hotels. The building was designed by architect Frank Gehry, who accepted the design commission in April 1999; the pavilion was constructed between June 1999 and July 2004, opening officially on July 16, 2004. Jay Pritzker Pavilion cost $60 million, a quarter of which came from the Pritzker fam...

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