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Free tours of iconic Frank Lloyd Wright architecture at global headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, USA, during the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. SC Johnson’s Administration Building is the only FLW–designed functional office space in the world.
The Price Company’s executive offices and corporate apartment remain largely in their original condition or have been restored to approximate their original state. After PTAC’s sensitive restoration Price Tower was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007.
Le Corbusier’s use of exposed reinforced concrete and brick cladding for the museum’s facade symbolized the emergence of novel building typologies and the “arrival of the modern” in India as a newly independent nation. The Government Museum and Art Gallery is also recognized as a Grade-1 heritage site in India.
An anchor of cultural life in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) is a concrete and glass tour de force. Suspended on four massive pillars, the building shell hovers 26 feet above the ground and contains a total floor area of over 110,000 square feet.
The Getty Foundation award $1.7m in architectural conservation grants for exemplary 20th century buildings as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative: twelve projects including St Peter’s Seminary, Glasgow ; Price Tower, Oklahoma by Frank Lloyd Wright ; Bauhaus Building, Germany by Walter Gropius.
Nestled in a Moroccan oasis where ancient mineral springs have drawn visitors for centuries, the Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex represents a marriage of nature, public space, and modern architecture. Built four years after Moroccan independence, the complex is the ambitious statement of a new nation determined to create modern and forward-thinking gathering places for its citizens.
Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany – revered Dessau structure designed by architect Walter Gropius one of twelve recipients of Getty Foundation’s Keeping It Modern Grants, architectural conservation grants dedicated to significant 20th century buildings.
The Getty Foundation announced $1.66 million in architectural conservation grants dedicated to twelve significant 20th century buildings as part of its Keeping It Modern initiative
The Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture Building in Ankara is considered the premier example of modern architecture in Turkey. Designed by Turkish-born architect couple Altuğ and Behruz Çinici as a manifestation of a forward-looking nation.
Cedric Price architect, London, England – UK 20th century architecture, designer of futuristic projects, notably Plug-in building, Aviary at London Zoo, Fun Palace, Thinkbelt
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The designers from mode:lina™ have faced a challenge of planning an interior project for Norwegian company Opera Software, creator of the popular web browser.
Tour of The Gamble House, the most complete and best-preserved example of American Arts and Crafts style architecture. The house and furnishings were designed by famed architects Charles and Henry Greene in 1908 for David and Mary Gamble of the Procter & Gamble Company.
The Schroeder House by architect Gerrit Rietveld is commemorated on the occasion of De Stijl’s centennial. This architecture competition aims to create a new version.
Modernist architecture is an expensive and very ornate style, and the elements of a building try to include all possible arts. Characterized by its soft forms, curves, geometric and vegetative motifs, modern architecture was born in Belgium under the name of Art Nouveau.
The Swiss art gallery originally designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop reveals three new buildings by architect Peter Zumthor to accommodate its growing art patron base, as well as education programs and events
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, 1888-1965, born and died in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Dutch furniture designer and architect, De Stijl member from 1919. Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Nieuwe Bouwen proponent from 1928 and Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne member from 1928.
Design: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe architect. News update on the Mies Museum in this Polish-German city. For almost 20 years, the stern, cuboid forms of the Wolf House loomed over the town of Guben.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Berlin and Los Angeles sister-city partnership, the exhibition explores connections between Hans Scharoun’s Berlin Philharmonic and Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
