(Reading Tom– flickr/creative commons license) Frank Gehry designed the IAC Headquarters in New York, completed in 2007. The building’s form is rather tame for Frank Gehry, especially as Richard Meier projects and a Jean Nouvel project rose nearby. …
Category: New York
(A. Strakey– flickr/creative commons license) The Apple Store in SoHo, New York City is a manifestation of the company’s product, a pure representation. The reuse of a 1920s post office produces a glass box on the sidewalk that advertises transparency, …
(Seth Tisue– flickr/creative commons license) Lever House is considered the iconic modernist building. Its unassuming minimalist appearance and international style and innovative curtain wall structure gives some big surprises for those who bother to look up close. It was designed …
(Jauher Ali Nasir– flickr/creative commons license) Norman Foster and WSP Cantor Seinuk designed the Hearst Corporation headquarters in New York, rising from the stone facade of the 1928 building by Joseph Urban. It received the 2006 Emporis Skyscraper Award, largely …
(A. Strakey– flickr/creative commons license) Diller Scofidio & Renfro (DS+R) and FxFowle Architects designed renovations for Alice Tully Hall at New York City’s Lincoln Center in 2009. The design amplifies the effect of the original cantilevered building over public space …
Frank Gehry designed the Richard B. Fisher performing arts center for Bard College. It opened in 2003. Gehry’s typical flowing roof of stainless steel panels reflect the green surroundings, establishing an exciting space in the New York environment. The theater …
(Arch_Sam– flickr/creative commons license) By considering the art gallery as a circulatory experience, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim in New York as a continuous spiral upwards with a naturally lit atrium in the center. This unobstructed coil becomes larger …
(Ethan.K– flickr/creative commons license) Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA Architects designed the 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Similar to the Seattle Central Library, programs take form as vertically stacked boxes that shift horizontally to …
(sara~– flickr/creative commons license) This 2004 expansion to the Museum of Modern Art in New York by Yoshio Taniguchi adds modernism to Cesar Pelli’s greenhouse design. This $315 million renovation opened wide spaces into the tower, including a 33 meter …
(suwatch– flickr/creative commons license) Steven Holl Architects designed this 2007 interior for the New York University’s Department of Philosophy. Originally built in 1890, the historic building is clad with red sandstone and has plenty of large windows afford good opportunities …