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16 Amazing buildings from around the world Dream Houses Te Tuhi Pre-visit lesson 1
If we think about the buildings in and around our city, most have rectangles and squares. Some rooftops are triangular, sloped or simply flat. In this PowerPoint we are going to see buildings that are rectangular, square, triangular, sloped, curved, round, flat and every other shape you can think of. Let’s take a look at 16 amazing buildings from around the world and see if you can recognise any shapes in these buildings. Image:
Image: Federation Square Melbourne Australia 1.
Image: Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles USA 2.
Image: Dancing House Prague Czech Republic 3.
Image: Royal Ontario Museum Toronto, Ontario Canada 4.
Image: / Denver Art Museum Denver, Colorado USA 5.
Image: / Seattle Central Library Seattle USA 6.
Image: Peter B. Lewis Building Cleveland, Ohio USA 7.
Image: Puzzling World Lake Wanaka Otago New Zealand 8.
Image: Edifico Mirador Madrid Spain 9.
Image: Honey Bee Hive House Jerusalem Israel 10.
Image: Habitat 68 Montreal Canada 11.
Image: Druzhba Holiday Center Yalta Ukraine 12.
Image: Air Force Academy Chapel Colorado USA 13.
Image: Museum of Contemporary Art Rio de Janeiro Brazil 14.
Image: Cubic Houses/Kubuswoningen Rotterdam Netherlands 15.
Image: Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee USA 16.
Buildings don’t have to be built and designed one way. Through imagination and creativity buildings can be designed and made from any shape and look amazing!
In the next lesson we will explore “Hidden Shapes”. End of lesson