Tag: North America

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

This isolated Utah residence designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is a tiny dot in an immense wooded alpine landscape of shrubs and tall slender trees. The three

# United States of America (637) # Residence (1664) # Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (19)

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Bronx County Hall of Justice

Rafael Viñoly Architects

Courthouses are one of the most complex of building typologies to plan, yet their functions demand simplicity. Back in the 1930s, American courthouses were few

# United States of America (637) # Public (333) # Rafael Viñoly Architects

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Casa Futura: Sustainable Design

Kevin deFreitas Architects

Amid the building and urban sprawl of California’s San Diego a one-family residence is experimenting with “sustainable architecture”. The governing princi

# United States of America (637) # Residence (1664) # Kevin deFreitas Architects

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Salt Point House

Thomas Phifer and Partners

This 200 sq m detached house is sited on a meadow surrounded by woods close to a small private lake in New York’s Hudson Valley.An elongated, yet compact rect

# United States of America (637) # Residence (1664) # Thomas Phifer and Partners

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Gardiner Museum

KPMB Architects

The renovation and additions to Toronto’s Gardiner Museum - Canada’s only ceramic art museum - reflect the measured approach to experimentation adopted by B

# KPMB Architects # Canada (167) # Exhibition (438)

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New Museum of Contemporary Art

SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

Anodized, expanded aluminium clad boxes, stacked in an irregular fashion. These distinctive forms are not an art work but the New Museum’s new building in New

# United States of America (637) # SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa (13) # Exhibition (438)

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Steven Holl in Kansas City, Usa

Steven Holl Architects

The civic or postcard view of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, now radically extended by Steven Holl Architects, is of five translucent boxes informally arrayed

# United States of America (637) # Steven Holl Architects (30) # Cultural center (476)

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Michael Rotondi - Roto Architecture in Texas

Michael Rotondi

What should a university school of architecture look like in the early 21st century? How might the incubation of future environmental designers effect the envir

# United States of America (637) # University (225) # Michael Rotondi

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De Beers Jewelry Store

ACPV Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel

The building’s skin, a double skin whose lightweight, impalpable surface seems to take shape gradually before our eyes has become an identifying architectural

# United States of America (637) # Commercial - Retail (489) # ACPV Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel (33)

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Villa MN

UNStudio

Ever since the first studio diagram came out, the plans for Villa NM have always reminded me of a Bach Two-Part Invention – the invention being Philip Johnson

# United States of America (637) # Pilkington # Residence (1664) # UNStudio (23)

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Renovation Guggenheim Museum

Il Museo Guggenheim di New York, che nel 2009 compirà cinquant’anni ed è una delle icone dell’architettura del XX secolo, è sta

# United States of America (637) # Mapei (145)

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High school #9

Coop Himmelb(l)au

The Viennese practice Coop Himmelb(l)au - in particular its charismatic founding partner, Wolf Prix - has long been enamored with Los Angeles. From the legendar

# United States of America (637) # Coop Himmelb(l)au # Education (461)

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