Gemma Observatory Southern New Hampshire

Gemma Observatory Southern New Hampshire

Gemma Observatory Southern New Hampshire, rural North East American building design by Anmahian Winton Architects in the mountains this building sits at the end of a steep, half-mile gravel drive. It is situated at the center of a three-mile radius “dark” landscape with very little light pollution, USA.

KMAC Museum Louisville, Kentucky Building

KMAC Museum Louisville, Kentucky Building

A 20,000-sqft space in a historic cast-iron building in downtown Louisville’s West Main Street Historic District. The gut-renovation aimed to restore strength and clarity of the original building whilst creating a dynamic new space for contemporary art and performance.

Top 25 US architecture firms in 2017: American architects

Top 25 US architecture firms in 2017: American architects

The top four firms in Architectural Record’s yearly ranking held tight to their places from 2016, reports the Architectural Record. AECOM, Perkins+Will, and Jacobs followed San Francisco–based Gensler, which clinched the No. 1 spot for the sixth year in a row, seeing more than $1.19 billion in revenue—an increase of more than $100 million since 2015.

Tampa Museum of Art in Florida building

Tampa Museum of Art

Design: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc. – the design of a contemporary art museum can be described by two opposite approaches. One is to be works of art in themselves. The other is to be a jewel box showing of its beautiful treasures.

Fast Horse Minneapolis Offices, Minnesota

Fast Horse Minneapolis Offices building | www.e-architect.com

Employees have no assigned desks. “Ponies”, as Fast Horse worker are known, are encouraged not to occupy the same seat two days in a row and are encouraged to extend their “work space” beyond the office to the coffee shop, bar, or home.

Suzanne House in San Jose, California

Suzanne House

Design: Diebel and Company | Architects. Windows, doors and clerestories in the living areas of this Silicon Valley house allow natural light to get deep into the interiors of the home. The internal spaces of the property focus on the exterior yard, and tranquil landscape.

Avocado Acres House in Encinitas, California

Avocado Acres House

Architects: LLoyd Russell AIA – this new residence is all about addressing the conditions we face now by incorporating sustainable materials, energy efficiency and environmental sensibilities.

Embodied Computation Lab Princeton University

Princeton University Embodied Computation Lab | www.e-architect.com

Design: The Living, Architects – commissioned by Princeton University, this lab is a simple but futuristic building hosting research on the future of buildings. Just as biologists use an electron microscope to study organisms, architects will use this structure to study buildings and construction systems.

DeBruce Center at University of Kansas

DeBruce Center at the University of Kansas Building | www.e-architect.com

The architecture breaks with the sports museum conventions of bright colors and bold logos in favor of a more sophisticated building form and a lighter, more reductive materials palette of structural glass, honed black concrete and aluminum. This allows the building to remain deferential to the fieldhouse during the day and gives it more versatility of use.

Taubman Complex, Southfield, Michigan

Taubman Complex, Southfield, Michigan | www.e-architect.com

Design: Morphosis Architects with Albert Kahn Associates. This 36,700-sqft academic laboratory building for Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, provides advanced facilities for robotics engineering, biomedical engineering, life sciences and related programs.

Maison sur le Lac in Newport, Vermont

Maison Sur le Lac

Design: ACDF Architecture. Located on the shores of Lake Memphremagog in the Eastern Townships, the House Lachance is a secondary residence designed for two clients who are native to the region, and currently oscillate between Montreal and Magog

Willamette Falls Riverwalk Oregon

Willamette Falls Riverwalk

New riverwalk and sequence of waterfront outlooks in Oregon designed by Architects Snøhetta will restore public access to North America’s second largest waterfall for the first time in over 150 years.