Tag: North America

A COLONIAL GRID SUSTAINS PHILADELPHIA’S CHARACTER

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a noble neoclassical building on a remarkable site. It is both a terminus and a beginning, as it connects the urban center to

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Wood House

Brininstool Lynch

Designing this Chicago residence was an exercise in creating a sense of privacy within an urban neighborhood, while providing an abundance of open, bright space

# United States of America (637) # Embassy # Brininstool Lynch

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EMERSON COLLEGE los angeles (ela)

Morphosis

These two complex university buildings have both been painstakingly designed to meet their functional purpose as places of learning where experimentation and in

# Morphosis (25) # United States of America (637) # University (225) # ERCO (34) # California, USA (123)

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Aspen Art Museum

Shigeru Ban Architects

As with East Hampton or St. Barth’s, the very word “Aspen” conjures up, in the North American mind, images of recreation and celebrity, of nat

# United States of America (637) # Shigeru Ban Architects (11) # Colorado, USA # Exhibition (438)

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United States Courthouse

Thomas Phifer and Partners

The architecture of a public institution should, through form, volume and surfaces, speak to the values embedded in that institution. Values and significance ch

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

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Two Private Villas

Toshiko Mori Architect

Although an assertive presence in their respective settings, these two large houses slip effortlessly into their natural surrounds. Both structures hug the grou

# United States of America (637) # Residence (1664) # Toshiko Mori Architect

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Nature and Matter in a working Space

Peter Rich Architects

Nature is today under threat as never before. Great strides have been made in the preservation of endangered species, the “ring-fencing” of specific

# United States of America (637) # Offices (965) # Peter Rich Architects

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Bill and Melinda Gates Hall - Cornell University

Morphosis

These two complex university buildings have both been painstakingly designed to meet their functional purpose as places of learning where experimentation and in

# Morphosis (25) # University (225) # New York, USA (76)

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Hadaway House

Patkau Architects

Architects have long been drawn to mountains. To the efficient integration of material and form in weathered Alpine chalets. Or, as with German notions of the S

# Residence (1664) # Canada (167) # Patkau Architects

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Perched above the Pacific. A house that exploits the drama of the central California coastline

Fougeron Architecture

Big Sur, located on the central coast of California, is one of the world’s magical places. Meadows and redwood forests clad the mountains that tumble into

# Residence (1664) # California, USA (123) # Fougeron Architecture

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A cedar box of surprises

Allied Works Architecture

Allied Architects create a reticent tasting room in the Oregon wine country Coast to coast, winemaking in the United States is flourishing as never before. In

# United States of America (637) # Commercial - Retail (489) # Allied Works Architecture

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Weiss/Manfredi fuse nature and urbanity

Weiss/Manfredi

Weiss/Manfredi occupy the sweet spot of contemporary architecture, creating buildings and landscapes that are neither conventional nor showy. Marion Weiss and M

# United States of America (637) # BEGA (45) # University (225) # Arper (23) # Weiss/Manfredi (34)

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