Fractal architecture

Not only abstract images can be created with fractals, but also very impressive images of strange towers and temples. Some time before I posted fractal image of a fractal temple. Now, the next some surrealistic images of fractal towers are represented below.

Medieval fractal (by Ramiro Perez)

Sunset Castle (by Ramiro Perez)

Ivory Tower - 2 (by Stefan Vitanov)

Airy (by Stefan Vitanov)

More images of fractal architecture can be found at

http://rfractals.net/?page_id=64 (Ramiro Perez)

http://www.fractalexperience.com/show_gallery.php?gallery=18&range=5&page=1 (Stefan Vitanov)

Escher's favorite building

A tower with very unusual shape in Beijing (China) will be completed for the Olympic games 2008. It's new China Central Television Tower (CCTV). It seems, that this building cannot exist in the our world, because it consists of two leaning towers, which are joined by a bridge with corner shape. The whole shape of the building seems like deformed square donut.

In 2002 two architects from Holland Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren won an international competition for the CCTV tower and the project broke ground in September 2004. The project is even more complex because Beijing lies in an earthquake zone, and the tower is full of technical challenges.

Escher could like this paradoxical building of his fellow countrymen.

Cubic houses in Rotterdam

A set of innovating houses was built in 1984 on Overblaak Street in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. These houses have shape of cube which were tilted to 45 degrees. The composition consists of 32 cubes, all attached to each other. The houses contain three floors.

This set of buildings was designed by architect Piet Blom. He is best known for his 'Kubuswonigen' buildings built in Helmond and Rotterdam.

Cube houses have interecting feature. They looks like impossible figure from bird's-eye view as it seen in Google Maps. Special covered roofs of cubes looks like snow-covered mountain peaks.

Fractal temple

In this raytraced image by unknown author we can see a strange sea temple. The temple consists of many similar platforms of various sizes. Every platform stands on four squared columns. The main cupola of the temple stands on platform which in one's turn stands on four platforms raised from water. There are four platforms smaller size on every of these main platforms with cupolas smaller size. Also, there are four platforms even smaller size on these small platforms and so on. This is a fractal temple with infinite count of cupolas!

Update 08.02.2009

Thanks to Greg M. Johnson, now I know who is the author of this image. His name is Christoph Hormann. The original image can be found at http://www.imagico.de/pov/gallery3_g.html.