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Sir John Soane's House Museum, Restored Private Rooms

Sir John Soane at Home: The restoration of private rooms in the London house museum of the innovative early 19th-century architect allows a broader look into his domestic life.
Chris Foges
September 16, 2015
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John Soane's private apartment, on the third floor of his extraordinary London house at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, was a refuge for the architect and his wife, Eliza, within a building that was also his office, salon, and showcase for a vast collection of art and antiquities. 


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Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Palette Cleanser: A new campus museum quietly serves up a visual banquet.
Lydia Lee
December 16, 2014
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A new campus museum quietly serves up a visual banquet. It’s tempting for designers to try to turn art museums into works of art themselves. But what if the client’s directive is just the opposite? A new campus museum in the Bay Area by the New York–based firm Ennead Architects may disappoint those hoping for a bigger architectural statement.


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Fondation Louis Vuitton Auditorium

Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
December 16, 2014
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The bucolic backdrop of the recently opened Fondation Louis Vuitton, set within Paris’s Bois de Boulogne park, inspired a garden building in the tradition of Joseph Paxton’s long-destroyed Crystal Palace. Like that famous structure, erected in London’s Hyde Park in 1851, Frank Gehry’s billowing new museum features vast expanses of glass.


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After 17 Years, Piano's Overhauled Harvard Art Museums Open

James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus
November 19, 2014
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The Harvard Art Museums, during renovation and expansion, showing the new addition. From Quincy Street, you would never know that the overhauled Harvard University Art Museums, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, lurks behind the puritanically aloof facade of the neo-Georgian Fogg Museum. Even the long boxy volume of Renzo Piano’s addition, which hoists itself one-story above Prescott Street, behind the rear of the Fogg, doesn’t fully disclose its size, even with showy glass cubes poking out at either end. The Fogg is now just one of three merged collections that opened November 16. To accommodate a daunting array of competing programmatic agendas
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