Stunning examples of modern architecture and high-tech buildings

Tech is a bit of a nonflexible thing to contain, nowadays. Where the 20th Century might have let you get yonder with the idea that technology meant microchips and motherboards, we're in an age where everything is tied up in it. That might midpoint networking, or ramified diamond processes, or any number of other things.

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In architecture, though, it ways that we're seeing buildings designed and built with technology running through their very skeletons - whether it's ecologically significant power efficiency measures, or simply entirely new ways of treating glass to get largest results.

We've taken a squint virtually the world to trammels out some of the most impressive recent buildings that have tech in their very hearts. We'll requite you a bit of an explainer, in each case, as to just what makes the towers so special.