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]

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]

Magney House in New South Wales

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Glenn Murcutt Bingie Point.Nueva Gales del Sur Australia.1984

Ágora de Atenas 2002. Casa para el Doctor Speth [More information]

House Curzio Malaparte

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Adalberto Libera and Curzio Malaparte Punta Masullo. Isle of Capri, Italy. 1943

This house is an icon representing the finest architecture made in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. Emerging from the combination of the ideas of the great architect Adalberto Libera and writer's intuitions [More information]

Nexus World en Fukuoka

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Rem Koolhaas-OMA Kashii.Fukuoka.Japon 1991

Nexus World (1991) is one of the most interesting experiments on the types of multifamily housing in recent times. This set included the participation of several famous Western architects, led by renowned Japanese master Arata Isosaki, including Steven Holl, Oscar Tusquets, Mark Mack, Christian [More information]

Villa Maire

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Alvar Aalto Little Birch Alley. Noormarkku, Finland. 1938 Porch access to the Villa Mairea. Photos: David Gross, Flickr

This is one of the most significant works of Finnish teacher. It is a manifesto in which Alvar Aalto tried to express in the beginning its peculiar way of understanding architecture.

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