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American Architecture : US Buildings
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Architecture USAWe've selected what we feel are the key examples of American Architecture. We aim to include architectural projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both. Selection of American ArchitectureAmerican Architecture : News + key projects (this page) Major US BuildingsUSA Architecture arranged alphabetically:Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, Florida Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect  photo © Robin Hill Florida Southern College Florida Southern Colleges long-hidden treasure trove of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings the largest single-site collection of the architects work in the worldis ready for a new dawn. Known collectively as Child of the Sun, the 12 structures will be featured in the upcoming exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In the context of Frank Lloyd Wright's other projects, the show, Frank Lloyd Wright : From Within Outward (May 15 through August 23), will feature photos and drawings of Frank Lloyd Wrights one-of-a-kind master plan. Coincidentally, an ambitious restoration effort is currently under way on Frank Lloyd Wright's college campus. Aqua Tower, Chicago Design: Studio Gang Architects  picture : Studio Gang Architects New Chicago Skyscraper Totaling over 1.9 million sf, Aqua Tower is an 82-story mixed-use high-rise that includes a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices. Among the building’s notable features is the green roof terrace atop its plinth—which at 80,000 sf is one of Chicago’s largest—and contains an outdoor pool, running track, gardens, fire pits and yoga terrace. A series of contours defined by outdoor terraces extends away from the face of the tower structure to provide views between neighboring buildings. The terraces inflect based on criteria such as the view, solar shading and size and type of dwelling. Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois Mies van der Rohe, architect  photo © gm+ad architects Farnsworth House World-famous 20th Century architecture - a classic Modernist house. The Getty Center, Los Angeles Richard Meier & Partners  image © Alice McRae Getty Center Building Major architecture statement by one of the key Americna architects of the latter part of the 20th Century, still active in the 21st century. This large-scale project was critically acclaimed upon completion, located just north of LA. Seattle Public Library, Seattle Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA  photo : Philippe Ruault Seattle Library Building The architects state "Increasingly public space has been replaced by accommodations of quasi-public substance that while suggesting an open invite, actually make you pay. The library stands exposed as outdated and moralistic at the moment that it has become the last repository of the free and the public. Our ambition is to redefine the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent forms of media—new and old—are presented equally and legibly. In an age where information can be accessed anywhere, it is the simultaneity of all media and (more importantly) the curatorship of their contents that will make the library vital." Smithsonian Museum Courtyard Foster & Partners  photo : Nigel Young / Foster + Partners Smithsonian Institute Now designated as a National Historic Landmark, the former United States Patent Building building was rescued from impending demolition in 1958 by President Eisenhower, who transferred it to the Smithsonian Institution for use as the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The enclosure of the building’s grand central courtyard was prompted by a desire to transform the public’s experience of the Smithsonian’s galleries and provide the Institution with one of the largest spaces in the state. US Building ProjectsUS Architecture, alphabetical:
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