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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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Crawford Manor is a public housing community originally built as an elderly enclave in 1962. It was the first high-rise project for the elderly in New Haven and it is consider to be a Brutalist icon of the Late Modern Movement designed at the height of Paul Rudolph’s career. The building is a 15-story irregularly stacked tower of multiple residential…
Continue readingIn preparation for the reopening of the Rose Main Reading Room, watch 52,000 books being shelved…in just two minutes: Title: Time Lapse: Thousands of Books Get Reshelved Before the Rose Main Reading Room Reopens Video credit: Max Touhey Photography Music credit: As Colorful As Ever by Broke http://www.metouhey.com
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In 1969, Richard Feigen commissioned the Austrian architect Hans Hollein to redesign an 1887 row house and convert it into a two-story gallery and residence for his own use. The gallery has changing floor levels and ceiling heights and a balcony overlooking the ground floor. The sinuous staircase rail linking the gallery spaces has an ocean liner quality. This nautical theme…
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The project is a pavilion for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, installed permanently as a public amenity and vendor kiosk in Grant Park, facing Lake Michigan.
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In the project “A church without God” by Mexican Architect Israel López Balan Opposing qualities are explored through visualizations of desolation and progress, death and continuation, noise and silence, nature and culture. The word ‘precept’ has been used here as a key element to suggest processes experienced by people in time, as well as to question the meaning of existence…
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Designed by landscape architect Adriaan Geuze and his team from West 8, The Hills on New York’s Governors Island are the culmination of the award-winning Governors Island Park and Public Space Master Plan completed in 2010. Rising 25 to 70 feet above the Island, the Hills offer an extraordinary 360-degree panoramic experience of the New York Harbor. The opening of…
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To design the Circle campus, the university of Illinois chose the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, led by Architect Walter Netsch, who planned the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Netsch designed the campus in the Brutalist style based on the metaphor of a stone dropped in a pond of water.
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Architect Arata Isozaki designed MOCA Grand Avenue in 1986 with classical architecture and Los Angeles popular culture in mind. Today this location hosts the museum’s main galleries, Lemonade café, the flagship location of the MOCA Store, and staff offices.
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The Knights of Columbus Headquarters designed by KRJDA 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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Pueblo Bonito was a monumental public building that served surrounding communities and the region when Chaco was a major center of Puebloan culture between A.D. 850 and 1150.
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