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San Francisco-based Anderson Anderson Architecture answered some questions about their unassuming but highly innovative modular, re-locatable child care facility for Harvard University.

KPF answered some questions about their One Jackson Square project in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, described by the architects as "a ‘found' object, like a rock in a rushing stream that influences the shape and form of the water flowing over it."

The redesign of the Domplatz is intended to extend the lively inner city atmosphere of the Hauptplatz in Linz in a southerly direction. The core of this urban conversion project is a new hotel that mediates with sovereign flair between the various eras of the buildings around the Domplatz.

Like a building within a building, Anmahian Winton's design for the Joukowsky Institute at Brown University presents an exterior "façade" to an interiors project. The architects answered some questions about the design.

Good design means giving even the smallest of commissions a strong presence. workshop/apd answered some questions about their façade and lobby renovation carried out in Tribeca's landmark district.

IwamotoScott Architecture answered some questions about their design of a speculative house in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Befitting the city's conservative architectural demeanor, the design was presented and approved by two neighborhood associations: the North Beach...

Slow Food's focus on local food and culinary tradition has been embraced all over the world since the organization's founding in Italy over twenty years ago. Architects Sagan Piechota answered some questions about their design of a pavilion for Slow Food that embodies the...

A failing economy has decided the fate of 21 Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. SoftLab answered some questions about their recent installation in the now-vacant three-story house.

Dramatic views greet visitors to the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook above Los Angeles. Safdie Rabines Architects answered some questions about the building completed last year.

Spread across 22 buildings in Chicago's South Loop, Columbia College Chicago considers itself "the largest and most diverse private arts and media college in the nation." One of the school's three new buildings in its 2010 Master Plan is the Media Production Center (MPC). Studio...

New York City-based Hangar Design Group answered some questions about their design of a small Security Kiosk on the northern edge of the Pratt Institute's campus. It is a small but important element in the school's northward expansion.

This tiny retreat in Tennessee garnered Sanders Pace Architects a local AIA award. The architects answered some questions about the well-crafted structure.

The original proposal of the Prefecture of Santo André (São Paulo) required that a children's science museum, associated with the public school network, be built inside one of the city's parks. The project presented expands the initial program and proposes a wing to house...

The project is located in Lapa, an industrial district, developed along the railroad line between Santos Jundiaí and Estação Ciência, near key urban features such as the Municipal Market and bus and train terminals.

1900 brannte der Südflügel des Linzer Schlosses ab. Nun wurde die seither bestehende Lücke gefüllt. Anlässlich des europäischen Kulturhauptstadt-Jahres hat sich Linz hier ein schönes Stück zeitgenössischen Museumsbaus...

While anything but uninspired, the single-family house that Albert Ortis and Reinhold Weichlbauer have built in Laufnitzdorf is a clear departure from conventional notions about inspiration.

On the Großer Isidor the air is thin. But now what until last year was a prize reserved for skilled climbers after an arduous ascent, is now child's play for tourists, even those wearing just light shoes.

Das Pflegeheim in Hainburg musste erweitert werden. Die Architekten Christian Kronaus und Erhard An-He Kinzelbach setzten einen 80 Meter langen, reinen Holzbau vor den Bestand. Nach dem Prinzip der Raumfaltung wurde ein vor- und rückspringendes Fassadensystem entwickelt, das den Bautyp um...

Hall A, opened in autumn 2008, increases the exhibition area of the Grazer Messe (Graz Trade Fair) on two levels by a total of 13,500 m2. Innovative building technology helped above all to reduce costs — and is also well hidden.

Two structures free up more than half of the lot, contributing to the public space of the neighborhood and salvaging two heritage constructions. The first adapts itself to the irregularities of the context; the second becomes an urban reference, from its corner location, of the Villa...

The commission called for new uses and meanings to be given to a space in the historic center of Guadalajara. Its essential features were to be respected, in order to reverse the process of degradation and to convert the area into a catalyst of the urban context that will emerge with the complex...

Die Widmung gab dem Hochhaus seine Form vor: eine Ellipse mit 70 Metern Längsdurchmesser auf einem 65 Meter tiefen, fast quadratischen Sockel. Die Architekten Neumann + Partner und das Büro ARTEC lösten die Rundung in polygonale Segmente auf und entwickelten eine komplexe Fassade...

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When Heinz Tesar's museum for the Essl Collection was opened in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna nine years ago it was Austria's first newly built private museum and seemed likely to long remain the only one of its kind. However a worthy successor soon came along in the form of the Liaunig...