Buildings with Balls

I have a wonderful book "History of Architecture: From Classic to Contemporary", ed Rolf Toman, and I found these two buildings in it:

Shanghai Skyline:



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Brussels, Atomium, Andre Waterkeyn, 1958:


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China is producing some phenomenal buildings. This is a proposal for the World Expo in Shanghai, 2010 - 'The People's Building'. The Chinese word 'ren' meaning 'people' being the shape the building makes.

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