Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa's majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here ...
At the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva, Israel, the newly built life sciences complex has provided the ideal meeting place for avant-garde architecture and state-of-the-art science. Nestled in the Negev Desert, this institute with a floor area of 14'500 is a perfect example of the beauty of concrete when used in an elegant and ...
The transparent clarity and rigid geometric forms of Wiel Arets have made him one of the most influential architects practicing today. A theorist as well as a designer, he is a rising star on the international scene and is revered in his native Holland as a modern master in the tradition of Louis I. Kahn. Aret's works are stern buy humane, ...
Throughout the built world of late, museums have been leading the way in architecture--a far cry from the days of antiseptic white cubes, when museums were afraid that signature design might compete with the art on display. Some of the most interesting international architects working today, people like Zaha Hadid, Daniel Liebeskind, Renzo Piano, ...
The Inns of Court is a unique book on the architecture of the Inns and provides a comprehensive photographic document of this remarkable are of London. The photographs here are complemented by historical and theoretical essays, which serve to elucidate this part of the city's previously undocumented architectural past.
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