Architecture of United States

High Line 23

in Architecture by Neil M. Denari Architects

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archdaily, 26 July 2009

The West Side High Line in New York City is a continuous elevated bridge structure that will become, over the next ten years, a unique linear urban park. Designed by Field Operations and Diller...

Institute of Contemporary Art

in Architecture by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

contributed by 323

World Architecture Festival , 27 May 2009

The new ICA is the first new museum to be built in Boston in 100 years. The 65,000 square foot building includes 18,000 square feet of galleries, a performing arts theater, a restaurant, a bookstore,...

Seattle Central Library

in Architecture by OMA (

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contributed by 159

archdaily, 13 February 2009

Flexibility in contemporary libraries is conceived as the creation of generic floors on which almost any activity can occur.Each platform is a programmatic cluster that is architecturally defined...

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art

in Architecture by Steven Holl Architects

contributed by 323

World Architecture Festival , 28 May 2009

The expansion of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art fuses architecture with landscape to create an experiential architecture that unfolds for visitors as it is perceived through each individual’s...

Crawford Residence

in Architecture by Thom Mayne - Morphosis

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Carlos Lanuza, 28 April 2009

The Crawford Residence was situated outside of an urban context, on the slope of an irregular hillside near Santa Barbara. The site has a relationship to both mountains and ocean. Our modus operandi...

Farnsworth House

in Architecture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (

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Jordi Ber, 13 June 2009

The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Chicago's...

Steel House

in Architecture by Robert Bruno (

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Ethel Baraona Pohl, 26 February 2009

The house build near the city of Lubbock in Texas. The house is a steel cave. Instead of scratching little pieces of stone to enlarge your cave, Robert Bruno welds more steel plates onto his...

Sherman Residence

in Architecture by LOHA Architects

contributed by 159

archdaily, 29 May 2009

The house sits on a south facing hillside on a ridge overlooking the upper Tamalpais Valley and San Francisco Bay beyond. The complexities found in the natural landscape and topography of Mill...

Fallingwater

in Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright (

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eurotopia, 21 December 2008

Hablando con los miembros de la Taliesin Fellowship, Frank Lloid Wright decía sobre esta casa realizada para Edgar J. Kaufmann: “Fallingwater”, la casa de las cascadas, es una de las más...