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Every so often, an exceptional work of architecture emerges from an opportune convergence of just the right client working with just the right team of architects, engineers, and consultants on a building that is just right for the times. Kroon Hall at Yale University is one of these.
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Walking or driving past the new Step Up on Fifth project in downtown Santa Monica, California, one could mistake the colorful building — with its front facade of yellow, white, and purple metal panels — for a contemporary art center or a fashionable condominium. The mixed-use residential building in the heart of this affluent, picturesque city was actually built to serve people suffering from mental illness and homelessness.
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The simple and strong geometric shape of the Bar House near Aspen, Colorado — which is a bar set boldly across, rather than nestling along, the valley floor — stands up to the rugged and majestic mountains that surround it. Despite its strength, this house by Peter Gluck and Partners is partly submerged in the ground, as if to lock it into the landscape. The views up and down the valley dominate the interior spaces, but they are tempered in different ways by the varied size and placement of the windows and the shape of the rooms.
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More Architecture and Design Tropical Towers — Metropolis, 2010.0113The Square House by MODO Architecture & Design — Contemporist (Blog), 2010.0112 Hotel Slump? Don’T Tell Them — New York Times, 2010.0110 Hume: Tallest Tower Emblematic of Dubai's Ugly Excess — Toronto Star, 2010.0109 200 West -- Just a Boxy, Tedious Mass — Opinoin at The Real Deal, 2010.0107 Yale's Green Ark — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0106 A Mercedes Flagship That Sets the Standard — , 2010.0105 Rafael ViñOly on Health-Care Design — Metropolis, 2010.0105 The Landmark Buildings Shaping the Next Decade — The Times (UK), 2010.0103 High Stakes in Vegas — Oregonian, 2010.0102 Grand New Concert Hall Tests a City's Frugal Ways — New York Times, 2010.0101 Working for Peace at Home, Too — New York Times, 2009.1230 Architecture: Star Architects Emerge, but Even They Find Limits — Los Angeles Times, 2009.1220 Planners, Designers Mull Implications of Digital Surfaces — Architectural Record, 2009.1217 A Symbol of Progress — Metropolis, 2009.1216 Bar House in Aspen — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1216 RMJM-Designed Athenaeum Opens at Goucher College — Architect's Guide to Glass & Metal, 2009.1216 Architecture and Design's New Hot Spots: Hong Kong and Shenzhen — Fast Company, 2009.1215 In Washington, a Different Kind of Bubble — New York Times, 2009.1214 At St. Albans, a New Building Gives Off Good Vibes — Washington Post, 2009.1213 Country Homes with Two Kinds of Parking — New York Times, 2009.1211 Vegas $8.5 Billion CityCenter Has Classy Casino, Empty Rooms — Bloomberg, 2009.1210 Review of the Decade: Jonathan Glancey on Architecture — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.1207 Media Lab Aims to Elevate Transparency — Boston Globe, 2009.1206 A Former Shop Becomes a House in Singapore — New York Times, 2009.1203 State of the Cooper Union — Wall Street Journal, 2009.1202 Pugh + Scarpa Step Up — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1202 Letter from Baltimore: Design for Aging — Metropolis Magazine, 2009.1125 New Yale Building Draws Mixed Reactions — New Haven Register, 2009.1119 Surface Tension — New Yorker, 2009.1118
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