Architecture

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It's amaising how money is made so fast and spent so poorly!

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ANTOINE PREDOCK

AIA Awards to Predock, Thorncrown, Moore Ruble Yudell.










Austin City Hall
& Public Plaza




Leeser Architecture Wins Competition for World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in Siberia



The American Heritage Center and Art Museum at the University of Wyoming

Architect Antoine Predock's work has always been inspired by and responded to the surrounding landscape. Based in the Southwest, Predock's early structures seemed to have grown out of the desert itself. Perhaps his ability to connect building with place, to capture the essence of a local environment, appeals to people as an antidote to the often homogenizing influence of globalization. But Predock's reputation and project portfolio are truly global; his buildings are now located in such disparate locales as San Diego; Laramie, Wyo.; Canada, and Taiwan.

Predock Wins Canadian Museum for Human Rights Architectural Design Competition - Canadian Architecture News

Antoine Predock - Austin City Hall & Public Plaza :: arcspace.com

canadianinteriors.com - Canadian Interiors - 5/20/2008

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Antoine Predock

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AIArchitect, December 12, 2005 - Antoine Predock, FAIA, Named 2006 AIA Gold Medal Recipient

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MEMORIALS



John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial






The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial is a monument to the late U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) erected in 1970.


Architect
The JFK Memorial is the first memorial by famed American architect and Kennedy family friend, Philip Johnson. The monument was approved by Jacqueline Kennedy herself.




John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

JFK Celebrated? Philip Johnson's Dallas Memorial, Dallas - Experiences, Tourism, and Things to Do - IgoUgo

John F Kennedy Memorial photo - pgkps photos at pbase.com

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Modernist No More: Home by Famous Architect Is Razed




WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 13 — A Modernist house designed by the renowned architect Paul Rudolph and at the center of a highly public dispute over its demolition was being torn down Saturday, despite a last-minute effort by the state attorney general to save it......(etc).

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/ny...=1&oref=slogin


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VISIT
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sphere: Paul Rudolph's Micheels House in Westport is Gone

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Snøhetta
Oslo Opera House

Oslo’s new Opera House is located on the Bjørvika Peninsula overlooking Oslo Fjord.
The government wanted the Opera House to be a landmark for Norway as a cultural nation, highlighting the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, and also the foundation for the urban redevelopment of the area. The design by Snøhetta won the international competition in 2000.





Glass Reflections


interior shots

Snøhetta - Oslo Opera House :: arcspace.com

For Snøhetta a close collaboration with artists has always been an important part of their projects. For the Opera House the artists were invited as collaborators at the competition stage to avoid having to apply “decoration” to the architecture.

The “Carpet” was a collaboration with artists Kristian Blystad, Kalle Grude and Jorunn Sannes. The architects chose the Italian marble, La Facciata, because it retains its brilliance and color even when wet. The surface treatment of the stone, its pattern, cuts and lifts, which create a shadow play, have been designed in close collaboration with the artists. The Water Project is by artist Monica Bonvicini.