Located in the Historic Center of Quito Ecuador, this museum was designed to portray things of nature such as a tree in the center and bring in natural sunlight. Natural ventilation was a idea that went into this build that separates the existing roof and the new project. On top of the tree top sits a glass cover which is supposed to give off a pleasant environment during the day. 

One of the stranger things created by Escudero has to be his 500 meter chair. Made out of over 1500 feet of carbon fibre strips and fibre cast resin, the structure is manufactured using the smallest amount of molds. His reason behind is was to defy the amount of number of parts used to create something that also has the qualities of gravity, pressure, and the material of self organize into pieces.

Located in the central area of  Quito Ecuador, the large glossing metal structure is a large tourist attraction as well as his most famous scultpture. Many people come to the square and admire their reflection reflecting off of several hundred shiny curved iron slices. The word “Vive” in Spanish means life. Felipe’s goal was to bring this sculpture to Quito and brighten up the area for people to enjoy.

Even though it isn’t a large dynamic structure the Wishbone Table is one of Felipe’s smaller projects. Enginerred to fit 8 people, the joint connected Seike wood pieces designed to look like a wishbone, with 4 separate glass tops. The table reflects the type of Andean wood knowledge  and milling techniques that these people create. Separately milled into 13 parts, with 4 being symmetrical were created to support the weight of the table as well as not a lot of floor space.

This plain box shaped house may seem all plain jane from the looks but oddly enough all of the walls were shaped by hand. Each wall has a different texture then the one beside it. Felipe Escudero is widely known for these types of concrete structures. The appearance of the home gives the building of it being smaller than what it actually is. The position of the house in the mountains of  Ecuador lets the house be heated by the natural position of the sun as well as the windows are re-enforced to help with high winds.  

This oddly shaped house sits at a altitude of almost 12,000 feet in the Chimborazo Mountain range. It features a curvaceous concrete look, almost shaped like a 3 leafed clover, but with 3 petal shaped wings. Windows surround every wall which allow for marvelous views of the mountain range as well as sunlight to come through during the day, as well to heat the home. The home was designed using natural aggregate concrete that comes from materials from the surrounding mountain side. The idea of the home was to be accepted by the Latin American approach to have sleeping areas away from the busier portions of the house. 

One of the best dorms on the campus has always been a building I have enjoyed driving by. The roman Gothic style structure that almost looks like a castle was a $75 million residence housing project in 2013 that house 380 students plus. Half of the population of Headington are student athletes, just being for better safety and convenience of the students. When I got the tour coming into freshmen year all I could think about is how nice it was and what it would be like to live there. The interior is not only massive, it houses statues of Oklahoma heritage along with various pictures of OU presidents, murals of sunsets and other Oklahoma related pictures. The cafeteria is state of the art, something that you would find at a 5 star restaurant. Sadly I did not get chosen to live there, but I did visit friends every now and then and loved my stay every time.

If you are an outdoors person and one of your favorite places to go get the chance to go is a Cabela’s or Bass Pro, I highly recommend the largest Bass Pro in the America. Not only is just a sporting good shop on the bottom floor, the 2nd and 3rd floors are the Big Cypress Lodge as well as a 4 star restaurant named The Lookout 32 stories in the air. The pyramid is 535,000 square feet, has 600,000 thousand gallons of water features and aquariums of more than 1,800 fish. It houses the largest free standing elevator at 28 stories tall. After a knee knocking ride to the top if you are scared of heights, you can go outside of the restaurant and look down through a glass floor that surrounds the south and west sides of the building that over looks the downtown Memphis area as well as the Mississippi River. 

When I was younger I got the chance to take a trip to see my cousin graduate at Georgetown University and while my visit we traveled around Washington DC. One of the coolest monuments there is the Lincoln Memorial. Honoring the 16th President Abraham Lincoln, it was dedicated in 1922 and is still one of our countries biggest historic landmarks. Before even walking up the stairs in the front you look up and just see this giant marble sculpture perfectly smooth and almost flawless. One meaning that comes to mind is that it proves our nations history and how it still stands, as well as honoring one of our presidents. As of 2007 the Lincoln Memorial was ranked 7th as best architecture structures in America. 

One of the most unique with the most detail structure I attended while in Rome was the Pantheon. Being built almost 1900 years ago, it is the largest free standing dome in the world. By free standing, there is a large circular hole through the top of the dome which causes the rest of the dome to just rest against itself. The thought that it took to create a sun dial in the floor that tells the time by using the rays that shine through the top of the dome back that long ago is something that I think somebody couldn’t do today. When I walked through the doors that alone are 35 feet tall all I could is stare up and look at how the dome just softly sits there along with all the gold leaf reflecting off the walls and off the murals hanging halfway up. You may think well what happens when it rains and there is a hole on the roof? All the rain water that falls goes into tiny holes in the floor that run into Rome’s drainage ditches and the rest just dries. The Pantheon is one of the most populated tourist destinations in the world as well as in Rome. Along the walls are separate cavities that house smaller sculptures that could be lit up from the suns rays but the other side will be in shadows. All of the floor consisted of marble slabs along with the walls and pillars.