Designers and architects around the world build mirrored buildings, use mirrors in the interior and exterior decoration of their creations, thereby pushing the boundaries of space, giving rise to unusual shapes and completely changing the usual perception of architectural forms.
Mirrored building facades allow you to disguise them, make “invisible”, dissolve against the sky or harmoniously “write in” to a forest glade.
Masterpieces of disguise
- Hotel in Sweden
One of the strangest hotels on earth is built here. The mirrored cube house hovers in the air at a height greater than human height. The trees surrounding it are reflected in the glass edges of the cube, due to which it is rather problematic to see it among the green crowns.
The roof is a promenade terrace, so that the residents of the hotel remain invisible to prying eyes even when walking.
- Cinema La Geode, France
A cinema-ball was built in one of the parks in Paris. Outside, it is finished with triangular metal plates, the shiny surface of which works like a mirror.
The mirrored building is 36 meters in diameter, but for those walking in the park it is practically invisible: in the upper part the sky is reflected, in the lower part there is park greenery, and the building itself looks illusory and implausible even from a close distance. The screen in this theater is also spherical..
- Mirrors Cafe, Japan
It would be strange if connoisseurs of natural beauty, like the Japanese, would pass by the idea of using mirrored facades of buildings to achieve harmony with the environment..
The Gifu cafe is surrounded by cherry blossoms. Reflecting in the facades, the trees form a magical forest, especially in the spring, during the flowering period. Those inside the building can also admire the cherry blossoms through the huge windows..
- Mirror House Invisible Barn, USA
Standing in the green area of the New York park, the house is difficult to see among the foliage. Mirrored facades of buildings generally create a deceptive impression about the true dimensions of the structure, but in this case, reflecting the overhanging branches of the trees and the gaps in the sky between them, they make the house almost indistinguishable against the background of the surrounding nature.
- Mirror Play Pavilion Mirror House, Denmark
The harsh conditions of Denmark make it difficult to use mirrors on facades, so stainless steel polished to a shine is used to create mirrored houses. The façade of the play pavilion in one of Copenhagen’s parks is decorated with its sheets.
- Research Center Palaon, Germany
The modern research center has a modern form that is far from classical proportions. From above, this form is covered with mirrored steel plates, which makes it look like a spaceship of unknown aliens. However, for such a comparison, one must first make out a mirrored house, which practically merges with the sky..
- Country houses Mirror Houses, Italy
In Bolzano, several mirrored buildings were built nearby. Two houses are intended for recreation. The nature surrounding them is so expressive that the architects did not want to spoil its perception, and they built invisible houses, covering the facades of a simple form with mirrored panels.
- Mirror House Lucid Stead, USA
In a deserted part of the California National Park, there is an old hut, turned into a mirage house with the help of mirrors. Stripes of mirrors frame the house around the perimeter, instead of doors and windows – large mirrored canvases. You will not immediately understand – this is really a structure, or a mirrored house is just a vision?
