Death of the gravity defying iconic building

The last two decades has seen a rise of world-renowned architects build more and more iconic buildings that defy any conventional thinking and appear more as sculpture than architecture, massaging the developers' and the architects' egos. While revered and admired, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Santiago Calatrava and other expressionistic architects have created some remarkable and truly beautiful icons, not unlike Frank Lloyd Wrights' Guggenheim museum in New York City. The world is… More information...