The Catalyst

By Mike McGhghy, Reporter

Architecture, a way to create modern day marvels of human engineering, with the skills to design a building to be shaped as just about anything you can make a everlasting name for yourself. World wide there is a whole host of buildings that have a shock and awe appeal to them. The Kansas City Library for example, the outside looks like a book shelf full of some of the greatest modern literature books including Charlotte’s Web, Lord of the Rings, and To Kill a Mockingbird. How about an 80 story building that the individual floors rotate? In Dubai UAE this actually exists, not to mention between each floor is a wind turbine that makes this building a completely green power plant. A building titled the “Atomium” in Brazil is a structure with individual pods linked together to form the shape of an atom. Or even a museum of modern art in Rio de Janerio Brazil, ironically enough a museum that hosts modern art is a perfect example of a work of modern art as well. Simply put you cannot escape the art in this building.

So to bring it all together, all over the world, usually in urban centers, are massive works of art, presented so the entire world can see. From California to Berlin, Canada to Peru if ye seek ye shall find a building standing as a testament to the builders, architect and owner for decades or even lifetimes to come.