TOP 9 new buildings set to define cities and architecture in 2016 Ping An Financial Center (Shenzhen, China) Rising 100 floors and designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox associates, the Pin An Financial Center will be Shenzhen’s tallest structure and the fourth tallest in the world. The building has been LED gold pre-certified. Ping An Financial Center (Shenzhen, China) The Tate Modern – London’s preeminent contemporary art museum, located at the former Bankside Power Station was designed by Pritzker laureates Herzog & de Meuron. It is an ultramodern addition to the original building erected in the 50’s. It will feature the same brick palettes and will blend into the surrounding. Ping An Financial Center (Shenzhen, China) Designed by FR-EE, it is envisioned as a cascade of overlapping terraces offering both climate-controlled galleries and a series of “sculptural gardens” intended to encourage passersby to venture inside. The four-storey museum is expected to house “one of the most ambitious collections of Latin American art” in the world. World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York The Santiago Calatrava designed World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York will offer eleven subways and PATH trains, with weather protected access to the subway. Built with 150-feet-tall canopies extending from a glass and steel ribbed body, it looks like a bird poised to fly. The illuminated building will serve as a lantern in its neighbourhood. Zayed National Museum (Abu Dhabi) Designed by British Pritzker laureate Norman Foster of Foster + Partners, The Zayed National Museum is modeled on a bird’s wing. Louvre Abu Dhabi Designed by French Pritzker laureate, Jean Nouvel. It was envisioned in the likeness of a “floating dome structure,” its web-patterned dome allowing the sun to filter through. The overall effect is reminiscent of “rays of sunlight passing through date palm fronds in an oasis. Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower (Taipei, Taiwan) Also known as Agora Garden Towers, it was designed by the self-proclaimed “archibiotect” Vincent Callebaut. It promises to be one of the world’s most eco-friendly structures. It comes with attached gardens and forests, recycles all organic waste and used water and employs solar power for heating. OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center Designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA, it consists of rigid geometric forms expressed in its central cube supporting three protruding auditoriums- two cubic and one spherical. National Museum of American History and Culture (Washington DC) It was designed by the Tanzanian born, British Ghanaian architect, David Adjaye, who is also in contention for the Barack Obama Presidential library project. Adjaye is an architect with an artist’s sensibility and vision. The museum’s exterior will be covered in intricate bronze mesh, signifying the iron work done by freed slaves in the South.

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