Allied Works Architecture Designs a New Building for the National Music Centre of Canada that Sings

Allied Works Architecture (AWA) doesn’t enter open competitions often. …

Elbphilharmonie Comes into Port

Like a giant, seafaring ship with rippling sails of glass instead of canvas, and a brick base instead of a wood hull, the new Elbphilharmonie commands the harbor of Hamburg’s …

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Projects

Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University Medical Center

Approaching the new Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center from the jumble of hulking facilities in Upper Manhattan that make up the Columbia University Medical Center, the first thing that …

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Building Type Studies

Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa

Inspired by Picasso’s Cubist composition for a 1912 guitar sculpture, Steven Holl’s first building for the University of Iowa is a stealth work of architecture whose layered weathering-steel assembly and …

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Projects

Andlinger Center at Princeton University

In presenting its design solution for a research and teaching facility devoted to sustainable energy and conservation at Princeton University, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners (TWBTA) surprised the …