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A stacked vertical piazza, organized around a central atrium to encourage social exchange
Embassy architecture serves as a powerful symbol that provides an instantaneous and indelible impression of a country. Public buildings project the identity of a country’s peoples, culture and aspirations. American public buildings convey the collective identity of our rich, culturally diverse, and inc…
Using the Old as a Generative SourceSince the construction of the Palomar Observatory in 1948, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has continuously pioneered new ways of observing and explaining the heavens. Caltech scientists and engineers have deployed ever-changing telescopes on satellites…
The design embodies a series of contrasts and counterpoints to become the “great theater” that is “the outward and visible sign” of Taipei
In response to the interconnectedness of the new global city, Four Towers in One re-conceives the conventional urban grid as a dynamic, multi-dimensional organization, or armature, able to support the complex systems that define contemporary urban life. Like the complex yet coherent intricacy of a traditi…
An Integrated Cultural and Ecological Vision for Seoul The new Performing Arts Center is poised to become the universally recognized icon for Seoul, one that is synonymous with Seoul’s dynamic identity. The Center serves as a powerful symbol—one that evokes an instantaneous and indelible impression of …
The new King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) is a tangible symbol of environmental innovation. Our proposal redefines the traditional campus into a three dimensional master plan of interconnected built form and planted landscapes that accommodate discrete zones of public and priva…
Building the Models of Our Civic SustainabilityArchitecture is a confluence of cultural, political, and ethical decisions that occurs in an estuary of broad societal currents; thus, ever-changing, it encompasses the aesthetic, the tectonic, and the functional, the urban and the global–and now the sustaina…
Hybridized Museum of Congregation As the only art museum in the region, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum attempts to make aesthetic experience accessible to a broader public by expanding the desire for art and creating a new audience. Setting aside the traditional role of museums as containers for t…
Repositioning Proceedings of Business as UsualToday, the architecture of justice drifts away from symbolic iconography; courtrooms are routinely located in generic office towers indifferent to the gravity of the judicial process. The Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse challenges this trend, expres…