{"id":25399,"date":"2014-03-21T04:49:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T04:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designbuzz.com\/?p=25399"},"modified":"2014-03-21T04:49:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T04:49:32","slug":"four-award-winning-structural-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/four-award-winning-structural-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Four award winning structural designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The profession of an architect involves a lot of dexterity and creativity at planning and sketching impressive architectural wonders.\u00a0 For an architect, it is important for the creativity and innovation to emerge which is possible in an environment that has competition.\u00a0 Various architectural design events and contests are being held at a global level to bring forth architects and give them a global audience and platform.\u00a0 Here are four amazing architectural structures that have won global level contests.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25465\" alt=\"August_2006_Flinders_Street_Station\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/August_2006_Flinders_Street_Station.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/August_2006_Flinders_Street_Station.jpg 600w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/August_2006_Flinders_Street_Station-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Flinders Street Station<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The very first railway station in Melbourne was at Flinders Street in 1854 that was named as the Melbourne Terminus and was then made out of a set of weatherboard sheds.\u00a0\u00a0 The interesting fact here is that architects fail to win the price, as two railway employees at Melbourne Terminus are the ones who bagged the winning prize.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25464\" alt=\"03-30-07-BostonCityHall\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/03-30-07-BostonCityHall.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/03-30-07-BostonCityHall.jpg 600w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/03-30-07-BostonCityHall-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Boston City Hall<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The municipal government in the city of Boston came up with a novel idea of launching a countrywide contest for designing its headquarters in the year 1962.\u00a0 They received 256 innovative entries and out of all these, the winning entry was by three professors from Columbia who based it on civic monumentality.\u00a0 Architectural critics lauded the building and it was voted as the \u201c6<sup>th<\/sup> greatest building in American history\u201d as well. However, conversely, the building did not go down well with the Bostonians who consider it an eyesore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25467\" alt=\"The-Chinese-National-Stadium-in-Beijing-\u2013-The-Bird\u2019s-Nest-Stadium-homesthetics-5\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/The-Chinese-National-Stadium-in-Beijing-\u2013-The-Birds-Nest-Stadium-homesthetics-5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/The-Chinese-National-Stadium-in-Beijing-\u2013-The-Birds-Nest-Stadium-homesthetics-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/The-Chinese-National-Stadium-in-Beijing-\u2013-The-Birds-Nest-Stadium-homesthetics-5-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Bird\u2019s Nest<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Even before Beijing was formally given the rights for hosting the Summer Olympics in 2008, Beijing solicited design entries around the world for it new National Stadium.\u00a0 There were 13 entries in all our of which Herzog &amp; de Meuron (architectural company from Switzerland), China Architecture Design and Research Group (CADG) and artist Weiwei (an artist) came forth with his innovative design.\u00a0 At the end, this innovative Bird\u2019s Nest reaped the award without trouble.\u00a0 With the stadium\u2019s inauguration in 2008, the Bird\u2019s Nest became the main attraction at the games.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25469\" alt=\"central_railway_station _helsinki_finland_photo_finland_tourist_board\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/central_railway_station-_helsinki_finland_photo_finland_tourist_board.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/central_railway_station-_helsinki_finland_photo_finland_tourist_board.jpg 600w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/designguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/03\/central_railway_station-_helsinki_finland_photo_finland_tourist_board-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Helsinki Central railway station<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The central railway station at Helsinki is undoubtedly a major landmark and it is essentially symbolic of the growing popularity of this transportation in the 1900s.\u00a0 This winning entry was drafted by Eero Saarinen, which bears a modern design.<\/p>\n<p><b>Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There are many architectural marvels around the world; 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