Fisher House / Louis Kahn
March 9, 2022
The Fisher House, also known as the Norman Fisher House, was designed by the architect Louis Kahn and built for Dr. Norman Fisher and his wife, Doris, in 1967 in…
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The Fisher House, also known as the Norman Fisher House, was designed by the architect Louis Kahn and built for Dr. Norman Fisher and his wife, Doris, in 1967 in…
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In 1993, Legorreta + Legorreta and landscape architect Laurie Olin Architects completed the Pershing Square’s last renovation in the City of Los Angeles. The five-acre public park dates from 1781…
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The Sumbanese traditional House (Uma Mbatangu, “peaked house”) refers to the traditional vernacular House of the Sumba people from the island of Sumba in Indonesia. Sumbanese House is characterized by its…
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In 2014 Portuguese architect Jorge Mealha completed the Technological Park of Óbidos, which combines a straightforward geometry with a complex ground floor alteration that enriches the project considerably.
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Architecture design firm Cobe has been commissioned the new Geely Design Center in a unique campus named “Uni3 by Geely” on Gothenburg’s harbor front. It is set for completion in…
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Completed in 1592, la Villa Capra “La Rotonda” was designed by Andrea Palladio in 1567. Commissioned by Paolo Almerico, he asked the architect to create a place for his recreation,…
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While French newspaper publisher Jean-François Lemoine was looking for an architect to design a new home, he became partially paralyzed from a car accident. Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas designed the house…
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Designed in 2017 by the architecture firm FORM Bureau, Casa Raposa is a tropical hut for a surfers family hidden on the Atlantic ocean’s shore between Rio de Janeiro and…
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The Olivetti Underwood Factory was designed by acclaimed American architect Louis Kahn in 1966 and completed in 1970. Olivetti, an Italian company, commissioned Kahn the building to manufacture their Underwood…
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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…
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The Jawahar Kala Kendra Arts Center located in Jaipur was designed in 1986 by acclaimed Indian architect Charles Correa. It was commissioned by the Rajasthan government to preserve Rajasthani Arts…
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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…
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The Piazza Castello project, designed by Onsitestudio proposes a redimension of an important open space in the city of Milan, reasoning on an urban scale attempting to address the spaces…
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The Reykjavik Mosque project designed by U67 Architects takes inspiration in the historical mosque’s typologies to create a place where the Islamic culture is intertwined with the site-specificity of Reykjavik.
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