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The Olivetti Underwood Factory was designed by acclaimed architect Louis Kahn in 1966 and completed in 1970. Olivetti, an Italian company, commissioned the building for the manufacture of their Underwood line of typewriters and related products.
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American architect Philip Johnson designed in 1969 the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial as a thoughtful piece of art intended for reflection and remembrance. Johnson’s design is a “cenotaph,” or open tomb, that symbolizes the freedom of John F. Kennedy’s spirit.
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The Kimbell Art Museum designed by Louis I. Kahn in 1972, is widely regarded as one of the outstanding architectural achievements of the modern era. Kahn designed a building in which “light is the theme.” Natural light enters through narrow plexiglass skylights along the top of cycloid barrel vaults and is diffused by wing-shaped pierced-aluminum reflectors that hang below, giving…
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The Bensberg Town Hall was designed in 1962 by Gottfried Böhm and completed in 1969. Thick concrete slabs and seamless glass creates a rationalist base for the tower which rises in layers of spiraling windows towards a blocky crown. Despite its modern language, its color harmonizes with the neighboring town castle to blend with the surroundings.
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In May 2017 Danish architects COBE completed the transformation of The Silo, a 17-story former industrial building converted into a 38 unit residential apartment with event and dining facilities on the upper and lower levels.
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In 1949 the Southwest Christian Seminary in Phoenix commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright (then 82 years of age) to design a Classical University that included along with other programmatic buildings a chapel. His drawings were finished and made public in 1950 but the Seminary, however, ceased its operations and the university was never built. Years later, Wright´s widow obtained permission to…
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The Bianchi House was designed by Italian architect Mario Botta in 1971. Built on a sharply inclined hillside above the village of Riva San Vitale on the shores of Lake Lugano the house is set in the lower part of the plot and laid out on different levels like a tower.
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The Royal Collections Museum in Madrid by Mansilla & Tuñón was built taking into account the classic structure of the Royal Palace and the modern concept of a descending museum. The Art Museum is expected to be open in 2020 and will be located in a new building in the gardens of the Campo del Moro park next to the Almudena Cathedral and the Royal…
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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 design of John Lautner’s Arango House, also called Marbrisa House, is inspired by the natural features of the site: the ocean and the sky. The house was commissioned in 1970 by Jeronimo Arango as a weekend home for his family and in 1973 the architect built a 25,000-square-foot home that seemed to float above the water. The client had…
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