Burj Al Arab, Dubai, UAE
1. Tom Wright and Carlos Ott
2. December 1999
3. Dubai
4. public
5. $650 million USD
6. It was created as a hotel.
7. I picked this building because it was something of past knowledge to me. I had already known a little bit about it. My dad visited this building last year and got to tell us some interesting things about it. I think that it is also a very eye appealing structure. It attracts your eye immediately with its unique shape.
Eden project, United Kingdom
1. Nicholas Grimshaw
2. May 2000
3. United Kingdom
4. public
5. 140 million euros
6. It was created as a natural biome.
7. I chose this building because it was something that automatically caught my eye. It is very unique and I'm not surprised if many others choose this too. It has a very cool aspect to it. I really chose it because I'm curious about it. How did they make something like that?
Kansas City Public Library, United States
1. unknown
2. March 2004
3. Missouri
4. public
5. $50 million USD
6. It was created to be a library.
7. I chose this because it is very interesting to me. Things like this really get my mind going. It is really unlike anything I've ever seen. Someone must have had a great imagination to come up with something so awesome.
Hundertwasserhaus (Forest Spiral, The Hundertwasser Building), Germany
1. Heinz M. Springmann
2. 2000
3. Germany
4. public
5. $750 million USD
6. It is an apartment complex.
7. I chose this because it was something that caught my eye. It looks like something out of a Dr. Suess book. I honestly clicked on it because of the long and difficult name. I knew that it'd be that weird it had to be interesting.
Guggenheim Museum, Spain
1. Frank Gehry
2. 1997
3. Spain
4. public
5. $100 million USD
6. It was created as an art museum.
7. I chose this because its very interesting. There are a lot of different aspects to it and it leads your eye all over the place. It is very unique and I would like to learn more about it and the history behind it.
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