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"The 14 Most Anticipated Buildings of 2014\nFrom soaring megatowers to showstopping museums, AD spotlights cutting-edge architectural marvels set to open around the globe this year\nAspen, Colorado\n\nFor his first museum in the U.S., Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has devised a striking variation on the wood lattice of his idiosyncratic Centre Pompidou-Metz while at the same time paring down the structure. The boxy 33,000-square-foot Aspen Art Museum boasts three levels of exhibition space beneath a rooftop sculpture garden that offers mountain views. According to the museum's CEO and director Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, \"Ban's commitments to both the environment and humanitarian efforts made him a unanimous choice. His selection assured an architecturally appropriate, environmentally sound, and culturally significant venue for contemporary art in the core of Aspen.\"\nHong Kong\n\nZaha Hadid's dynamic Jockey Club Innovation Tower slices through its tight, irregularly shaped plot on the campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Seamlessly integrating a concrete podium with a louvered glass fa\u00E7ade on the upper levels, the 250-foot-tall building houses the institution's design education and research programs and includes a lecture hall, classrooms, design studios, and workshops, as well as exhibition spaces and a communal viewing lounge.\nAlbi, France\n\nThe little-known southern French town of Albi will soon be home to a grand theater by one of the country's leading architects, Dominique Perrault. Located on the fringe of the historic city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the building includes a 900-seat auditorium for live performances as well as a 250-seat experimental hall and several cinemas. Acting as a reflective curtain, a curved copper-color metal mesh covers the red metal-clad fa\u00E7ade.\nRio de Janeiro\n\nWith Rio de Janeiro set to serve as a host city for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the tropical metropolis is undergoing a transformation. In 2009, Diller Scofidio + Renfro won a competition to design the Museum of Image and Sound along Rio's famous Copacabana Beach. The vertical ribbonlike scheme recalls the firm's design from a decade ago for the unrealized Eyebeam Museum yet takes its cues from the surrounding coastline and mountains as well as the beach promenade by famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.\nShanghai\n\nAt 2,073 feet, Gensler's Shanghai Tower will be the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world after Dubai's Burj Khalifa. Rising alongside Skidmore, Owings &amp;amp; Merrill's Jin Mao Tower and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates' Shanghai World Financial Center in the city's Pudong district, the new structure completes a triumvirate of megatall buildings in the world's first super high-rise neighborhood. Contained within its asymmetrical, spiraling form are 121 floors of retail, office, and hotel space.\nCambridge, Massachusetts\n\nIt's no small task to combine three world-class art museums into one, but leave it to Renzo Piano\u2014who just completed an expansion of Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum in Texas and is building a new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York\u2014to get the job done. Piano's scheme consolidates Harvard's Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler museums with a 200,000-square-foot addition, whose glazed rooftop, a prominent feature of the new construction, will allow controlled natural light into the conservation lab, study centers, galleries, and courtyard below.\nLyon, France\n\nNamed for its location at the confluence of the Rhone and Sa\u00F4ne rivers in Lyon, France, the 500,000-square-foot Mus\u00E9e des Confluences takes Coop Himmelb(l)au's steel-and-glass assemblages to a grand scale. The architects break down the complex structure into two elements they call the Crystal and the Cloud. The Crystal functions as a transparent urban forum facing the city, while the Cloud, sitting next to it and resembling a spaceship, features a sequence of black boxes containing exhibition spaces.\nGlasgow, Scotland\n\nCharles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art certainly holds a place in the pantheon of great architecture. So it was no surprise that Steven Holl Architects' design for a new edifice directly across from the 1909 landmark was met with some controversy. According to Holl, the Seona Reid Building\u2014which, like its illustrious neighbor, houses seminar rooms and studios\u2014is in \"complementary contrast\" to the Glasgow Style masterpiece. Whereas Mackintosh's school is marked by dark wood interiors and brick and granite exteriors, Holl's features a thin, translucent skin over a concrete structure.\nLos Angeles\n\nThe latest building to bear the names of renowned philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad is the $140 million Broad Art Museum, which sits across from Frank Gehry's Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. In contrast to the shimmering silver waves of the Gehry structure, Diller Scofidio + Renfro's design for the Broad comprises an airy, cellular exoskeleton that shapes the fa\u00E7ade and provides filtered daylight to the gallery spaces, lifting up at the corners to welcome visitors into the lobby.\nFrankfurt\n\nIn the works for over a decade, Coop Himmelb(l)au's plan for the European Central Bank, on the eastern side of the Main River in Frankfurt, is one of the unorthodox firm's more conventional designs. Two glass office towers rising just over 600 feet are joined by a multilevel atrium, where connecting platforms, bridges, ramps, and stairs form a network of links between the two structures.\nAalborg, Denmark\n\nThere's a lyrical quality to Coop Himmelb(l)au's House of Music, even if pieces of it seem discordant. The performing arts center, sited along the waterfront of a shallow fjord in Aalborg, a cultural hub in northern Denmark, features a shoebox-style 1,300-seat concert hall whose concrete walls are wrapped by a U-shaped courtyard building that includes educational facilities and backstage functions. A grand foyer unites the structures.\nNew York City\n\nFor those moving on up in New York City, deluxe apartments are getting higher and higher in the sky. It was only three years ago that Frank Gehry's 8 Spruce Street became Manhattan's tallest residential building. Now Christian de Portzamparc's One57 holds that distinction\u2014if only temporarily. At just over 1,000 feet, the glass megatower, encompassing 92 luxury residences designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen and a 210-key Park Hyatt Hotel, will soon be surpassed by Rafael Vi\u00F1oly's 1,398-foot-tall 432 Park Avenue.\nParis\n\nLike his project for the Harvard art museums, Renzo Piano's intervention for the Fondation Jer\u00F4me Seydoux-Path\u00E9 combines historic preservation, demolition, and innovative new construction. Once the largest film equipment and production company in the world, the foundation now promotes cinema and Path\u00E9's heritage. Its new headquarters is fittingly located on the site of an abandoned 19th-century theater on Paris's Left Bank. The heart of the project, hidden behind a historic fa\u00E7ade, is a transparent egg-shaped building that houses archives, exhibition spaces, and a screening room.\nWuhan, China\n\nLocated in Wuhan, in central China, the Zhang ZhiDong and Modern Industrial Museum celebrates Zhang ZhiDong, a 19th-century government leader who inspired the move toward modernization that established Wuhan as one of the country's leading steel-manufacturing centers. Appropriately enough, a complex web of metal beams forms the foundation for the swooping shell of the edifice. The gravity-defying building is architect Daniel Libeskind's first on the mainland."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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