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200 Spectrum Center Drive
200 and 400 Spectrum Center Drive, referred to collectively as the Spectrum Center towers, are a pair of Twin towers (architecture), twin office buildings in the Irvine Spectrum district of Irvine, California. At , the towers are the tallest two buildings in Orange County, California, Orange County with 400 Spectrum being taller than its twin. Each building contains of floor space. The Irvine Company-owned towers were designed by New York-based Pei Cobb Freed & Partners with Michael Bischoff acting as lead architect on the project. The towers were built in separate phases – 200 Spectrum broke ground in 2014 and opened in 2016 while 400 Spectrum broke ground in 2016 and opened in 2017. History The master-planned city of Irvine, California, was incorporated in 1971. The Irvine Spectrum district of the city was planned in 1985 and major construction began in the mid-1990s, including the Irvine Spectrum Center shopping mall. In the 21st century, the area became home to major busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture like New Classical architecture and neo-vernacular architecture. to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale. Some of these styles and approaches make use of very advanced technology and modern building materials, such as tube structures which allow construction of buildings that are taller, lighter and stronger than those in the 20th century, while others prioritize the use of natural and ecological materials like stone, wood and lime. One technology that is common to all forms of contemporary architecture is the use of new techniques of computer-aided design, which allow buildings to be designed and modeled on computers in three dimensions, and constructed with more precision an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
