Pyramid shape is close to ideal, it was known to the ancient sages at the dawn of civilization. The Egyptians considered them a symbol of power for a reason, although it remains a mystery how they were able to calculate the energy field that the pyramid creates.
However, this article is not about the secrets of the Egyptian pyramids, but about modern architecture. Undoubtedly, the pyramidal shape is successful from the point of view of reliability, since it provides ultra-strength to almost any design, but due to the lack of a roof a lot of useful space is lost. Although economically this form does not justify itself, architects have found many ways to use the pyramids.
Here you see the famous residential pyramid of Juan Carlos Ramos.
The architect believes that a pyramid-shaped house is great for living. However, no one disputes that this is a good solution for a private house, only I wonder how much this project cost.
The house of the artist Alain Bilterust near Brussels, although it is more accurate to say that this is a house resembling a pyramid.
This pyramid house was built by Japanese architects in Hiroshima.
In the Czech Republic built a hotel in the shape of a pyramid.
This pyramid was built in 1991 in the USA. This 32-storey building is today used as a concert and sports arena, but in the future they plan to remodel it into a shopping center. On the right is the famous Golden Pyramid in Ilonoys.
In America, they love everything grandiose, it is not surprising that this 30-story hotel appeared in Las Vegas. For a casino, by the way, the pyramidal shape is perfect, for playing roulette, no windows are needed. In general, the pyramid turned out to be solid: 4400 hotel rooms, 11 thousand square meters. playing area for casinos, 2000 slot machines alone.
This project is being created in Dubai, the so-called Ziggurat ecological pyramid. According to architects, this building will be able to house as many as a million people. In principle, given that the area of the pyramid is 2 sq. Km, this is quite real. Moreover, this house-city will be completely autonomous, that is, exist due to natural sources of energy - the sun, wind, steam.
But for especially creative architects it was not enough to build a pyramid, they decided to turn it upside down. So in the city of Temp, the photo on the right, in Arizona, this unique building appeared. Michael Goodwin designed the pyramid project, and in 1970 completed it safely. Something similar was built in Bratislava, photo on the left.
The theme of the pyramid has always been popular, so in the world there are many buildings and structures in the form of a pyramid, in this collection you can see some of them.
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Each pyramid has its own story, in order to tell everything, you need to create a separate site. I hope you enjoyed it.
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