The Atomium may not look out of place today, but it was groundbreaking back in 1958. The building, which is a replica of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, was designed by engineer André Waterkeyn.
Escalators and a lift allow access between the spheres. CNN may have named it Europe's most bizarre building, but we think it's pretty cool that such a building exists.
原子結(jié)構(gòu)似的建筑在今天看來(lái)沒(méi)什么稀奇,然而在1958年 。這樣奇怪的建筑絕對(duì)拉風(fēng) 。這個(gè)建筑是建筑師安德魯.瓦肯特的作品,其設(shè)計(jì)靈感源自鐵原子結(jié)構(gòu),相當(dāng)于將它放大1650億倍 。
電梯幫助人們穿梭于不同的球體之間, CNN曾經(jīng)將本建筑報(bào)道為歐洲最奇怪的建筑,而人們認(rèn)為這是個(gè)很酷的建筑 。