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Sometimes a building is so well suited to its use, to the client, and to the site that it is hard to imagine it designed any other way. The Atlas Building at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, designed by New York City-based Rafael Viñoly Architects, is actually such a building — once you get to know it.
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One of the largest construction projects in Europe — and one of the most political and controversial building projects in the UK — the new Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport opened in March 2008, nearly 20 years after the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) won the commission.
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In Frei Otto's landmark examples, the tent fabric was largely glass. Using the term "tent" with admitted looseness, here are two recent examples in the continuing romance of modern expression with tensile engineering. At the Estádio Municipal de Braga, the sheltering tent is made of concrete, while at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, the tent covering is on its side, a great white spinnaker defining a spectacular atrium. — Editor
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has traditionally been known for two things: its status as the largest encyclopedic art museum in the western United States, and its schizophrenic campus. Bolstering the former and addressing the latter, LACMA has unveiled a long-awaited free-standing addition to its collection: the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in conjunction with executive architect Gensler.
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More Architecture and Design Soap Bubble and Protein Molecules Inspire Steven Holl Architects’ New Lobby Design — AIArchitect, 2008.0626A Spanish-Modern Mashup in Los Angeles — New York Times, 2008.0626 Architectural Nest Egg — South China Morning Post, 2008.0626 Viñoly at Wageningen — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0625 A Soaring White Bridge Is New Jerusalem Landmark — AP, 2008.0625 Tadao Ando's Elegant Simplicity — Time, 2008.0619 A Facade Like No Other: Once Temporary, Now a Fixture Worth Restoring — New York Times, 2008.0619 An Olympic Nightmare in Beijing — The Times (London), 2008.0618 Jeanne Gang: The Art of Nesting — Metropolis, 2008.0618 Inside the Art Institute's New Modern Wing with the Building's Architect, Renzo Piano — San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0615 Angle of Repose — New York Times, 2008.0615 Rising Out of the Rust — New York Times, 2008.0615 It's Zaragoza's Turn to Make a Splash — New York Times, 2008.0615 Face Value — New York Times, 2008.0608 Crowded House — New York Times, 2008.0608 Museum's Bold Design Vibrantly Blends Old, New — San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0607 Self-Build Begins at Seventy… — Telegraph, 2008.0606 Heathrow Terminal 5 — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0604 Peace in a Pod — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0601 Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research — Canadian Architect, 2008.0530 AIA West Virginia Honors Eight Special Projects — AIArchitect, 2008.0530 Governor General's Medals in Architecture Announced — Journal of Commerce, 2008.0528 Venerable Institute Gets a Refit — Nature, 2008.0528 Two New Tents — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0528 Communication, Culture & Technology Building — Canadian Architect, 2008.0525 Soft as Steel — Metropolis, 2008.0522 The Pushkin Museum Plans a Questionable Expansion — Wall Street Journal, 2008.0521 In Praise -- And Not -- Of Follies — Wall Street Journal, 2008.0515 Small Project, Big Challenge — Houston Chronicle, 2008.0515 Life in the Trees: Marks Barfield's Tree-Top Walkway at Kew — Building (UK), 2008.0515
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