architecture

Two Prudential Plaza is a skyscraper that was built in Chicago in 1990. At 995 feet (303 m) tall, it is the fifth-tallest building in Chicago and the tenth tallest in the United States. The building was designed by the firm Loebl, Schlossman & Hackl, with Stephen T. Wright as the […]

Tuesday 01-23-07. What we know today as Otis’ Ahmanson Hall was originally the IBM Aerospace Headquarters building. Designed by Eliot Noyes and Associates along with A.Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons, it was finished in 1963. It has been featured in several architectural articles because of its unique pattern- designed to resemble […]

The building relates in scale to the mixed residential and commercial area of Omotesando, with the soft texture of the metal fabric on the facade conveying the texture of fallen leaves from the big zelkova trees in front of the building.
The exterior is double layered with three different kinds of […]

The folded skin, used in combination with the sloping glass facade, generates a spectacular entrance at the Prins Hendrikkade and gives the building volume an extremely sober perspective at the east side. On the waterside of the building the different levels are visible through the glazed facade.
Seventeen years after it was […]

This dynamic focal point of the enterprise is made visually evident in the proposed dynamic spatial system that encompasses the whole northern front of the factory and articulates the central building as the point of confluence and culmination of the various converging flows. It seems as if the whole of the […]

By the way, this is one of the best-designed mix-use mega highrise projects I’ve seen anywhere. It’s simple and modern. It’s done by a Beijing-born Japanese architect, Riken Yamamoto. It’s like a New York loft apartment building done in the style of a typical Vancouver building. Quite handsome. And the massive […]

Designed to resemble a billowing sail, the hotel soars to a height of 321 meters, dominating the Dubai coastline. At night, it offers an unforgettable sight, surrounded by choreographed color sculptures of water and fire. This all-suite hotel reflects the finest that the world has to offer.
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This is the final model. Unable to whiten the background, cause this was taken in the super midnight, or the morning of the submission day. Use two Ikea table lamps, but was not enough to edit perfectly : (. Procastinate-lar. This was only 85% done, with the stairs and swamp trees […]

Twenty-five feet wide and 81 feet deep, glazed with dramatic glass panels, the 24-story tower soars upward 280 feet, occupying the full width of its footprint from street level to pinnacle.
The narrow skyscraper is the new venue for presentation of contemporary Austrian arts and Austrian-American collaboration in many disciplines: music, visual arts, architecture and […]

May 4, 2001, marked the initial unveiling of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s new expansion and renovation which combines art, dramatic architecture and landscape design. Our new Quadracci Pavilion, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed building in the United States, features a 90-foot high glass-walled reception hall enclosed by the Burke Brise Soleil, a sunscreen that can […]