(Philippe Germanier– flickr/creative commons license) Jean Nouvel designed the KKL Luzern (Kultur- und Kongresszentrum) and Kunstmuseum Luzern Museum of Art Lucerne. The building is a convention center and concert hall, completed in 2000. The cantilevered roof wedges into a very …
Month: August 2015
(Luke Faraone– flickr/creative commons license) Fumihiko Maki designed the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning, completed in 2009. The $90m project ran behind schedule. The original Wiesner Building was designed by I.M.Pei. Stairways …
Gigon Guyer Architekten designed the Kirchner Museum Davos Schweiz, which is dedicated to the artwork of German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It was completed in 1992. The boxy grid design is typical of European modernism, but Gigon Guyer introduces …
(dannyfowler– flickr/creative commons license) Renzo Piano designed the $294 million Modern Wing for the Chicago Art Institute, completed in 2009. It’s a subtle and fitting new wing for the 1893 Beaux Arts museum. The 264,000 ft2 space gives plenty of …
(Ken Lund– flickr/creative commons license) Charles B. Atwood of D. H. Burnham & Company designed the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago Illinois, completed in 1914 after the Great Fire. Currently it is a Macy’s. It replaced a large and …
(by cristinabe– flickr/creative commons license) Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki designed the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. It was completed in 2006. The Japanese design arranges blocks of masonry and glazing to provide subtle …
(quinn.anya– flickr/creative commons license) Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), and structural engineer Manfred Grohmann designed the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne‘s Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne Switzerland. The EPFL center has a library of 500,000 pieces of scientific literature and …
John Wellborn Root and Daniel Burnham designed the Rookery Building in Chicago Illinois, completed in 1888. Young Frank Lloyd Wright contributed to the project. The innovative design gave rise to the skyscraper, a 12 story building with metal …
(ctaloi – flickr/creative commons license) Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designed the Apple Retail Store on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects designed the green roof. The simple box design has an entrance into a double space lobby, with …
(Ewan-M– flickr/creative commons license) John Fowler with the Metropolitan Railway designed the original Kensington railway station, between Gloucester Road and Knightsbridge in London, completed in 1868. Additional stations and buildings opened in later years. An unassuming front leads to a …