Tag: “Architecture”

42 places found.

  1. Mori Tower, Roppongi Hills

    Designed as a shopping mecca for the nouveau-riche, the biggest reason to visit Roppongi Hills is the ascent to the top of Mori Tower. Tokyo City View on the 58th floor and the adjacent Mori Art Museum are well worth a visit.

  2. Westfield Centre

    The one million square foot, $500 million dollar mall downtown San Francisco.

  3. Boulder High School

  4. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

    Opening its doors in 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied upper floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Civic Center.

  5. Farnsworth House

    The Farnsworth House, built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951 and located near Plano, Illinois, is one of the most famous examples of modernist domestic architecture and was considered unprecedented in its day. Transcending any traditional domestic function or program, the importance of the house lies rather in the absolute purity and consistency of its architectural idea.

  6. Transamerica Pyramid

  7. Taliesin West

    Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and architectural school. Every year Wright and his fellowship of apprentices and students, would move between the summer home in Wisconsin, and here in the winter.

  8. The Desert Hot Springs Motel

    The Desert Hot Springs is pretty small, only 4 rooms, but it is the only hotel designed by John Lautner, the architect that designed the Elrod house. The hotel is a fantastic blend of indoor and outdoor space like all Lautner buildings and has become something of an interpretive Lautner experience.

  9. Encounter Bar and Restaurant

    This classic example of googie architecture was built in 1961 to celebrate the completion of Los Angeles International Airport as a then-new "Jet Age Terminal." With it's 135 foot parabolic arches and flying-saucer center section, the Theme Building (its proper name) was declared a historic monument by the city of Los Angeles in 1992. Now called the Encounter Restaurant and Bar, its a fun place to grab a drink or a snack between flights at LAX.

  10. Villa Savoye