In 1961, the project by Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich and Alicia Cazzaniga won the design competition to build the Mariano Moreno National Library of the Argentine Republic. The library is named after Mariano Moreno, one of the ideologists of the May Revolution.
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The Seagram Building on Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958. The building’s particular conception and construction were largely driven by the vision of then-twentysomething Phyllis Lambert, daughter of Seagram’s founder Samuel Bronfman.
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The Knights of Columbus Headquarters designed by Kevin Roche and completed in 1969 is characterized by the four emblematic towers in the corners which represent a symbolic gateway to the city.
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Designed in 1959 by James Stirling and James Gowan the Engineering Building at Leicester is widely regarded as one of the most architecturally important buildings of its era.
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Luis Barragan House and Studio, also known as Casa Luis Barragan, is the former residence of architect Luis Barragan in Miguel Hidalgo district, Mexico City. It is now a museum exhibiting Barragan’s work and it is owned by the Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía and the Government of the State of Jalisco.
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GOLDSMITH Architects have recently completed The Floating Farm Dairy in Rotterdam, a compact stacked structure that merges agricultural processing and production installations in a single entity.
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The iconographic Raventos house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Bonet Castellana, perhaps best known for designing the iconic B.K.F butterfly chair with Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, was built between 1973 and 1974 and is one of the latest domestic proposals of the architect.
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To commemorate the 350 years since the foundation of the Zuisho-Ji Temple, Kengo Kuma was asked to renovate the temple and the priests’ quarters within the temple. The new addition was planned in consideration of the peculiar arrangement of the Chinese temple architecture.
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The Wayfarers Chapel was designed by Lloyd Wright, son of the pioneering American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the late ’40s and was built in 1951. The architect conceived the design as a natural sanctuary set in the midst of a forest. The Wayfarers Chapel is listed in the National Register of Historic Places being one of the foremost examples…
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Kengo Kuma completed his first building in Australia: a spiraling six-story structure at the heart of Sydney’s darling square district. The civic center is known as ‘The Darling Exchange’ and contains a library with spaces to support creative and technology startups; a ground floor market hall; a childcare center; and a rooftop bar with views over the neighboring park.
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