The Piano House in Anhui Province

If you thought you’ve had enough of crazy architectural styles in Shanghai, wait till you see this piano house in Huainan, Anhui. Inside the transparent violin is the staircase to the house upstairs. Apparently, the building has been built by the local government to draw interest to the newly developed area, but from what we can see, it almost looks like it was built in the sshole of nowhere.
This unique piano house is in Anhui Province, China. This building was designed by the local Chinese government to attract more development to this area. Inside of the transparent violin is the escalator to the building, where a variety of city plans and ideas for the future development are on display.
“The “Piano House” is just finished recently in new district of Huainan City, Anhui Province. The building shapes of a pair of scaled piano and violin. The program is to exhibit the planning model of the new district.”

Dancing House by architects Vlado Miluni? and Frank Gehry

Dancing House (Tan?ící d?m) occupies a fine position by the Vltava River. This stunning building, constructed between 1992-1996, is somewhat of a rarity in Prague; a modern, glass building surrounded by historic architecture.
Dancing House has daring, curvy outlines, which led its architects, Vlado Milunc and the American Frank O Gehry, to initially name it the “Astaire & Rogers Building”, after the legendary dance duo.
The top floor of Dancing House is home to one of the city’s leading restaurants, Celeste Restaurant. Diners can enjoy delightful cuisine and magnificent views over the river and up to Prague Castle.

Regional Manager of Edith Cowan University
The regional manager Ms. Sandy Guo from Edith Cowan University: one of the most comprehensive university from Australian visited ICEdu recently.
Ms. Guo gave ICEdu comprehensive university and courses introduction, and the most updated information for the 2010 enrollment. The deputy manager of ICEdu Tracy Xu communicated with Ms. Guo on the latest company development and the oncoming projects. Based on current platform, both changed opinion and discussed the feasibility of new cooperation.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) is an innovative and forward looking University that is an Australian leader in the provision of professionally focused degree programs, it was founded in 1900. Areas of strength include the ‘knowledge-based’ disciplines of finance and business, computing and IT, media and communications; education; health and social sciences; nursing; visual and performing arts.
ICEdu is a representative of ECU in southwest China.

source : www.icei.cn

Gazprom Headquarters in Rusia
And the sixth of the most unique structure is the Gazprom Headquarters, Russia. This gigantic, 300m tall glass flame of a building will house the Gazprom headquarters in St. Petersburg, dwarfing all structures in its vicinity. it will apparently change colour up to 10 times per day depending on the position of the sun. the building has already been nicknamed ‘corn on the cob’ by unhappy locals.

Olympic Oval up 2010 for World Building of the Year award
When my brother asked me for a ride to the Vancouver Airport a few weeks ago, I grabbed my gear, remembering that the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Speed Skating Oval had recently been completed near the airport, and was supposed to be a unique and spectacular building. I thought I’d take a look at it after dropping my bro at YVR. Great Architecture always intrigues me, that’s why I became an Architectural Photographer. Sometimes I just go out and look at buildings, sometimes I photograph them for fun, even if it’s not a work assignment. When I arrived at the Olympic Oval, the conditions could not have been better. The light was in just the right place, still quite low in the sky, but with a bright daytime look. The blue sky and clouds mirrored the brilliant colours of the ice blue architecture, accented with orange wooden beams for a dash of contrast.

In a case like this, I have to take photos, I don’t have a choice. It’s like an addiction, looks…..soooo…..goood,……..must…..take……photos….! It’s the same feeling that would compel a tourist to take 2 dozen shots of a beautiful sunset, even though each one looks just like the one before. It just looks so good.

I took about 150 frames, wandering around, exploring angles, different lenses, from far and near, low and high. I was just about to pack up and move on, when I remembered the 10 stop ND filter in my gear bag ( I use a Lowe Pro Photo Trekker in case you were wondering - Free plug for Lowe Pro cause their stuff is so good, and has a lifetime warranty) It was a pretty windy day, so the clouds and trees were moving quickly, if I made a long exposure I would probably get a unique look to the architecture image

source : andrewdoran.com