Hotel Kandalama

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Geoffrey Bawa Kaspaya King's Citadel, Sigiriya Dambulla, Sri Lanka (Ceylon). 1995

This resort is raised with great care in their integration into the unique landscape of Dambulla, an inner region of the island of Ceylon. Was designed by Geoffrey Bawa between 1991 and 1995 to accommodate visitors [More information]

Headquarters of Johnson Wax

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Frank Lloyd Wright Racine. Wisconsin, USA. 1938

Recreation Building office space Johnson. Drawing of Hugh Ferris

The building for the company Johnson Wax in Racine is one of the masterpieces of the great American architect. A job may be considered the most important piece of architecture created [More information]

Bradbury Building in Los Angeles

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George H. Wyman 304, South Broadway. Los Angeles. USA, 1897

View of the skylight in the central atrium of the Bradbury Building. Photos: Julius Shulman

One of the most striking scenes of the film Blade Runner is one in which the replicant leader will visit your creator in your own home. [More information]

Residence of the President of Finland

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Raili y Reima Pietilä Mäntyniemi, Mehlati. Helsinki, Finland. 1993

Central section of the large glass facade facing the coast This home is a residence that the Finnish state representative has built to house their presidents. Raili and Reima Pietilä develop an exercise there daily unique space in the [More information]

Airship hangars at Orly

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Eugène Freyssinet Paris Orly Airport, France. 1923 Orly hangars are among the more concrete structures made impressive early twentieth century. In 1923, the French engineer Freyssinet would project to house and protect dirigibles in the Paris-Orly airport.

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Desert House in Palm Springs

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Albert Frey 686 West Palisades Drive Palm Springs. California, USA, 1964 The house project in the Swiss Desert Albert Frey for himself in Palm Springs, stands out for its simplicity and radicalism without conditions. This architect, to develop his main work in California, is little known beyond the West [More information]

Casa Melnikov

Konstantin Melnikov Krivoarbatsky, Arbat. Moscow, Russian Federation .1927-1929.

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Ágora de Atenas, Arbat. It was conceived as a model for new workers houses and aesthetics differs greatly from traditional Soviet residential architecture around. Casa para el Doctor Speth [More information]

Campus House of Glass

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Philip Johnson New Canaan. Connecticut, USA, 1949-2005

The skewed access to the Glass House. Photos: Ron Blunt

Philip Johnson would be along much of the twentieth century one of the most controversial entertainers of American architecture. The Glass House in New Canaan (Connecticut) is the [More information]

Nancy HLL

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Jean Prouvé Street Agustin Hacquart. Nancy, Lorena. France. 1954

Jean Prouvé was a revolutionary in his early inventor devoted to metal crafts and always maintained a strong commitment and dedication to the prefabrication and industrialization of collective housing. In this housing project staff overturn much of [More information]

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