Tag: “Architecture”
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Opening its doors in 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied upper floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Civic Center.
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Boulder High School
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Farnsworth House
The Farnsworth House, built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951 and located near Plano, Illinois, is one of the most famous examples of modernist domestic architecture and was considered unprecedented in its day. Transcending any traditional domestic function or program, the importance of the house lies rather in the absolute purity and consistency of its architectural idea.
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Transamerica Pyramid
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Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and architectural school. Every year Wright and his fellowship of apprentices and students, would move between the summer home in Wisconsin, and here in the winter.
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A walk down Michigan Avenue
Chicago's Michigan Avenue presents an astonishing array of the best of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century commercial architecture
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'Pillar' of Strength
A supporting pillar of the Gwalior Fort - described by Babur as "pearl among Fortresses in India"
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The Gladstone Hotel
Toronto's Gladstone Hotel was built in 1889 and has been a functioning hotel ever since. Today the renovated hotel offered artist-designed rooms and a full floor of exhibition space, as well as hosting renowned karaoke nights and welcoming former residents at the bar.
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Pompeii Space
being buried under volcanic ash for a few hundred years couldn't steal the beauty
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The Desert Hot Springs Motel
The Desert Hot Springs is pretty small, only 4 rooms, but it is the only hotel designed by John Lautner, the architect that designed the Elrod house. The hotel is a fantastic blend of indoor and outdoor space like all Lautner buildings and has become something of an interpretive Lautner experience.
