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Alejandro Aravena

St. Edward’s University is visible from the highway that links Austin-Bergstrom International Airport with the Texas State Capitol and the scatter of towers t

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Cathedral “Christ the Light”

SOM | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

The newly completed Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland is a revelation. Craig Hartman, a partner in the San Francisco office of SOM, who previously led a

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David Adjaye in Denver

Adjaye Associates

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is a sleek, suave and subtle addition to Denver, a slightly mysterious glass box that mixes and refracts the famous Rocky M

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Grand Rapids Art Museum (Gram)

WHY

2007 saw the inauguration of the new Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) designed by Thai born architect Kulapat Yantrasast, co-founder with fellow architect Yo-ichi

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Office dA in boston

Office dA

The Macallen Building, the first large project to be completed by Office dA, slopes up to the border of South Boston as a sleek monolith. This enigmatic charact

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Malibu Beach House

Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Two recently completed beach houses show how differently the same firm achieved a similar goal on the same stretch of coast. The first is a layered white cubist

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Southern California Beach House

Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Two recently completed beach houses show how differently the same firm achieved a similar goal on the same stretch of coast. The first is a layered white cubist

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Farrar Residence

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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