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Aqua Tower

Studio Gang Architects

Chicago is the most American of America’s great cities, the boldest and the least pretentious. Its unsurpassed collection of high-rises clusters around the Ch

# United States of America (625) # Studio Gang Architects # Multifunctional Building - Complex (632)

Cooper Union

Morphosis | Thom Mayne

Oneness in Manyness, or Unity in Plurality, is a longstanding aspiration in architectural culture. It’s a slogan uttered, as it happens, by the Dutch architec

# Morphosis (19) # United States of America (625) # Agrob Buchtal # University (195) # Thom Mayne # Zumtobel Group (79)

Saucier + Perrotte in Ontario

Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics has arrived in Waterloo, a satellite city west of Toronto, as a calibrated and surprisingly sensuous, geometric

# Canada (124) # Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

Behnisch Architekten and architects Alliance in Toronto

ArchitectsAlliance | Behnisch Architekten

The University of Toronto has in recent years commissioned buildings from some very distinguished architects. Saucier + Perrotte from Montreal and Morphosis fro

# Canada (124) # University (195) # ArchitectsAlliance # Behnisch Architekten (34)

Garofalo Architects in Wisconsin

Garofalo Architects

The individual house is the mainstay of U.S. construction culture, a potent conflation of Americans’ desire for singularity, or independence, and the ruthless

# United States of America (625) # Residence (1294) # Garofalo Architects

Rem Koolhaas in Seattle

OMA

The first view of Seattle Central Library is at night. It rises from sloping terrain as a multi-splayed parallelepiped. Zigzagging or sashaying upward, the

# United States of America (625) # Library (114) # OMA

Winka Dubbeldam in Manhattan

ArchiTectonics Winka Dubbeldam

Housing has long been a strategic issue for New Yorkers, a practical and political concern for those on modest incomes and a complex game of location and style

# United States of America (625) # ArchiTectonics Winka Dubbeldam # Multifunctional Building - Complex (632)

Zaha Hadid in Cincinnati

Zaha Hadid Architects

After Hong Kong's Peak, London's Trafalgar Square, and Berlin's Kurfurstendamm, Cincinnati may seem an unlikely site for the glamorous and very talented Zaha Ha

# United States of America (625) # Cultural center (356) # Zaha Hadid Architects (48)

David Chipperfield in Iowa

David Chipperfield

British architect David Chipperfield is known for his elegant, almost minimal, typically rectilinear compositions. In the middle of the continental United State

# United States of America (625) # Library (114) # David Chipperfield (14) # Exhibition (333)

Sanaa, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

The buildings of Kazuyo Sejima are among the most emphatically beautiful in recent years. Working solo or in collaboration with Ryue Nishizawa, Sejima’s eye f

# United States of America (625) # SANAA Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa (11) # Exhibition (333)

Wendell Burnette in Phoenix

Wendell Burnette Architects

Flying into Sky Harbor International Airport, passengers see Phoenix and such adjacent cities as Tempe, Paradise Valley, and Scottsdale spread out across the de

# United States of America (625) # Library (114) # Wendell Burnette Architects

Richard Meier in New York

Richard Meier & Partners Architects

The towers at the end of Perry Street, clad in glass and in white aluminium panels, are gentle sentinels on the western flank of Manhattan. They signal the rise

# Richard Meier & Partners Architects (11)

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