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Kimbell Art Museum Addition

With his expansion, Renzo Piano speaks softly to Louis Kahn's masterpiece.
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
December 16, 2013
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For the general public, the Kimbell Art Museum’s exalted reputation rests on the extraordinarily high quality of its small collection, with hundreds of firstrate pieces by Western painters and sculptors, and a growing cache of Asian and pre-Columbian work.


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Ando Museum

Modern to the Core: Challenged to create a building in which to showcase his own work, a celebrated Japanese architect constructs a series of unique spaces within the shell of a historic house.
Naomi Pollock, FAIA
December 16, 2013
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A building within a building, the Ando Museum celebrates work on the Inland Sea island of Naoshima by one of Japan’s most influential architects.


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First Look: Herzog & de Meuron's Perez Art Museum Miami

William Hanley
December 3, 2013
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Early this afternoon, during a preview of his firm’s new building for the Perez Art Museum Miami, Jacques Herzog sat in a window seat in a second floor gallery and discussed what the building lacked. “It doesn’t really have a form,” he said, looking out at Biscayne Bay past rows of thin concrete columns supporting a trellis overhead. “It’s more about its permeability. There is so much form in Miami. We wanted to do something that shows the potential in this city to let in sun and vegetation.” In a town where form is often everything and ornament is the
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Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, Colby College Museum of Art

A new gallery designed by Frederick Fisher at Colby College in Waterville, Maine adds onto existing spaces for displaying art, including a 1999 wing designed by the architect himself.
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Suzanne Stephens
November 15, 2013
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For a small, private educational institution, Colby College has assembled a formidable cache of American art, including work by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, John Marin, and Alex Katz, among others.


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Portfolio: Le Corbusier's Chandigarh

June 12, 2013
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In 2010, Moscow-based architecture photographer Alexey Naroditskiy shot Le Corbusier's contributions to the Indian city of Chandigarh, which the architect masterplanned in the 1950s. In 2011 Naroditskiy's photos appeared in an exhibition at the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. We share some of them here in light of Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, opening June 15 at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Click the image below.
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Quick Take: Robert A. M. Stern Architects' George W. Bush Presidential Center

Ingrid Spencer
April 20, 2013
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The George W. Bush Presidential Center by Robert A. M. Stern Architects is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas. Visitors enter through the limestone portico. The George W. Bush Pres­i­den­tial Center, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, does not reflect the colorful nature of the 43rd president’s personality. Nor does it symbolically suggest the fact that Bush was the first president of the 21st century. Although the three-story brick-and-limestone building is the first presidential library to contain e-mails—some 200 million—its design is traditional,
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Asia Society Texas Center

A Quiet New Neighbor Moves in: Yoshio Taniguchi has returned to the U.S. for his second significant commission here—an elegantly restrained new home for the Asia Society Texas Center.
Beth Broome
November 15, 2011
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Yoshio Taniguchi has returned to the U.S. for his second significant commission here—an elegantly restrained new home for the Asia Society Texas Center.
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