Dezeen’s top ten: cantilevers

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Following the popularity of our story about MVRDV's Balancing Barn holiday home with a 15 meter cantilever (above, bottom left) we've compiled our most-read stories about cantilevered buildings for this month's top ten.

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1: in first place is this mountain-top viewing platform above an Austrian glacier by Astearchitecture.

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2: this museum overlooking Mexico City by Rojkind Arquitectos and BIG is in second place.

3: Herzog & de Meuron's Vitra House comes in third.

4: Zaha Hadid's MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome is fourth most-popular.

Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada by Xpiral

5: our fifth most-clicked story about a cantilevered building is this Spanish house by Javier Peña of Xpiral.

Balancing Barn by MVRDV and Mole Architects

6: MVRDV and Mole Architects' Balancing Barn holiday home is sixth most-popular.

7: the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec by OMA is in seventh place.

Mountains and dzn_Opening House by Eastern Desighn Office

8: next up is this studio over a Japanese house by EASTERN Design Office.

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9: this art museum designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au to perch above the city of Calabria in Italy is in ninth place.

154 Ha-Yarkon Street by Ron Arad

10: at number ten is Ron Arad's apartment block for 154 Ha-Yarkon Street in Tel Aviv.

More stories about cantilevered builldings here.

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One Response to Dezeen’s top ten: cantilevers

  1. hmm says:

    Holmenkollen skijump in Oslo should definetly be on that list!

  2. marcelo M says:

    I think that the Jean Nouvel’s Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, MN must be part of the list!!!!

    Great website, keep the good jwork

  3. Louie says:

    I thought the ground-stabbing pre-fab house would make the list :(

  4. msp says:

    Herzog and de Meuron's Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (to go along with Nouvel's Guthrie Theater across town)… I expected to see at least on of these on the list.

  5. jmc-luv says:

    Pretty good selections but ….where is Gormley's Studio by Chipperfield???
    ;)

  6. Charles Mackintosh says:

    The cantilevered press block on the Royal Mile, part of the Scottish Parliament should be on here too!

  7. Juan Manuel says:

    Ponce House – Mathias Klotz
    http://www.arkinetia.com/Articulos/art164.aspx

  8. Stella Corona says:

    Can't I leave her? Yes you can.

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