Tag: “Industrial Architecture”

43 places found.

  1. St. Mary's Cathedral

    St Marys Catholic cathedral in San Francisco, a 70's masterpiece in crazy design.

  2. The Bradbury Building

    Best known as the building that JF Sebastian lived in in Bladerunner. Now on the national register for historic places, the Bradbury Building is an incredible victorian style building with a huge open central atrium with open cage elevators and a glass ceiling.

  3. Marin Civic Center

    Frank Lloyd Wright's monsterly over-ornamented extravaganza of a building where GATTACA was filmed...

    If you need building permits in Marin or you have to fight a parking ticket or serve on a jury, undoubtedly, you will find yourself here. It's easy to make the best of it, the cafe has a fantastic retro, nostalgic feel.

  4. Seattle Public Library

    The Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library was designed by Rem Koolhaas of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture. Building was completed and opened in 2004 at a cost of $170 million.

    Seattle has many architectural jewels that you should see and this one tops the list.

  5. The Aerie

    Napa's most modern house. Designed by Helena Arahuete, the woman that took over John Lautner's practice, and worked with him on the Arrango residence in Acupulco.

    The house is perched on a hill with views of the entire bay area.

  6. Casino at Marino

    18th century neo-nlassical building in the gardens of Marino House. It was designed by the Scottish architecht Sir William Chambers.

  7. Prada Aoyama

    Herzog & de Meuron's Prada store in Aoyama has become one of the bigger attractions in the Omotesando shopping district. If you want to snap photos of the interior, you'll have to be sneaky, as photography is disallowed once you step through the front door.

  8. St. Mary's Cathedral

    Sleek modern cathedral designed by Tange Kenzo, in the Sekiguchi neighborhood of Tokyo. Seen from the sky, the building is in the shape of a cross.

  9. Salt Lake City Public Library

    The main branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library opened up in February of 2003 to accommodate their ever expanding collection.

  10. San Francisco Federal Building

    Thom Mayne's new San Francisco Federal Building is not only architecturally pleasing but is extremely energy efficient and follows the green trend that has hit this city hard in the past few years. The building has built in shading system so workers can use sunlight instead of electric lights, it's also designed to consume about half the power of a standard office tower.