architecture

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 […]

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has commissioned the New York firm Asymptote Architects to design and implement a new Guggenheim Museum in cyberspace. This is the first phase of a three-year initiative to construct an entirely new museum facility. The structure will be an ongoing work in process, with new sections added as older sections […]

For the recent competition by BMW Asymptote is proposing an Event/ Delivery Centre that architecturally embodies the sophistication and advanced technology of BMW. The building itself is seen as an extension of the corporate identity and progressive design of the products inside.
The interior is a fluid space that creates a dynamic theatrical event of the […]

Total area of addition: 6,215 square meters
Completed: 2004.
Client: Ontario College of Art & Design
Architects: Alsop Architects Ltd.
Joint Venture Architects: Robbie/Young + Wright
Landscape Architect: Yuk Woo Lee & Associates Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Carruthers & Wallace Ltd.
Mechanical Engineer: MCW Consultants
(with Battle McCarthy at “Schematic Design” Stage)
The elevated “table top” extension to the Ontario College of Art […]

The History and Science Museum of Erdos, located in the central zone of Erdos’s new city of Kang Ba Shi, is an external display window for the city of Erdos and the science and culture of inner Mongolia.
Located several kilometers from the old city of Erdos there is nothing in sight but the Gobi desert, […]

I like this Perspective. Interior of the National Gallery of Canada designed by architect Moshe Safdie. Building materials consist of concrete, granite, wood, steel, and glass.
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Andirons, 1909, Cast Iron, Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959) and George Mann Niedecken (American, 1878-1945)
An andiron sometimes called a dog, dog iron, or fire dog, is a horizontal iron bar upon which logs are laid for burning in an open fireplace. They are usually used in pairs. In older eras andirons […]

word from renderer : Continuying my HDR architecture exploration of Singapore.
United Overseas Bank Building, Central Business District, Singapore.

UOB Building, originally uploaded by DanielKHC.

Rotterdam architecture: futuristic office building near the central station.

Futuristic Office Building (Rotterdam Architecture), originally uploaded by fraktalisman.