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Garofalo Architects

The individual house is the mainstay of U.S. construction culture, a potent conflation of Americans’ desire for singularity, or independence, and the ruthless

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Rem Koolhaas in Seattle

OMA

The first view of Seattle Central Library is at night. It rises from sloping terrain as a multi-splayed parallelepiped. Zigzagging or sashaying upward, the

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Winka Dubbeldam in Manhattan

ArchiTectonics Winka Dubbeldam

Housing has long been a strategic issue for New Yorkers, a practical and political concern for those on modest incomes and a complex game of location and style

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Zaha Hadid in Cincinnati

Zaha Hadid Architects

After Hong Kong's Peak, London's Trafalgar Square, and Berlin's Kurfurstendamm, Cincinnati may seem an unlikely site for the glamorous and very talented Zaha Ha

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David Chipperfield in Iowa

David Chipperfield

British architect David Chipperfield is known for his elegant, almost minimal, typically rectilinear compositions. In the middle of the continental United State

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Sanaa, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

The buildings of Kazuyo Sejima are among the most emphatically beautiful in recent years. Working solo or in collaboration with Ryue Nishizawa, Sejima’s eye f

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Wendell Burnette in Phoenix

Wendell Burnette Architects

Flying into Sky Harbor International Airport, passengers see Phoenix and such adjacent cities as Tempe, Paradise Valley, and Scottsdale spread out across the de

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Richard Meier in New York

Richard Meier & Partners Architects

The towers at the end of Perry Street, clad in glass and in white aluminium panels, are gentle sentinels on the western flank of Manhattan. They signal the rise

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De Young Museum

Herzog & de Meuron

Yet again, the architects Herzog & de Meuron have made a building that might be termed paradoxical. Amid the lush foliage of San Francisco’s Golden Gate P

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Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects

Home to Coca-Cola and to John Portman, that instigator of atrium hotels in the 1960s, Atlanta is one of the fastest growing conurbations in contemporary America

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ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

The new Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) on its harbour site in Boston combines, or fuses, several significant architectural themes. First there is the trop

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Lar / Fernando Romero In Mexico City

LAR - Fernando Romero

Flying low into Mexico City is a special experience, a conflation of aeronautics and urban sprawl. The mountains open to reveal a vast capital city with rampa

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