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post updated July 18, 2024
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Major US Buildings
USA Architecture arranged alphabetically:
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, Florida
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
photo © Robin Hill
Florida Southern College
This is the largest single-site collection of the architects work in the world: known collectively as Child of the Sun, there are 12 structures.
Aqua Tower, Chicago, Illinois
Design: Studio Gang Architects
picture : Studio Gang Architects
New Chicago Skyscraper
This is an 82-story mixed-use high-rise building that includes a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices. The terraces of the building are contoured all the way up producing a strong sculptural effect: they inflect based on criteria such as the solar shading, view, size and type of dwelling.
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
Design: Mies van der Rohe architect
photo © gm+ad architects
Farnsworth House
World-famous 20th Century architecture – a classic Modernist house.
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
Design: Richard Meier & Partners
image © Alice McRae
Getty Center Building
Major architecture statement by one of the key American architects of the latter part of the 20th Century, still active in the 21st century. This large-scale project was critically acclaimed upon completion, located just north of LA.
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington State
Design: Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
photo : Philippe Ruault
Seattle Public Library
The architects state “The library stands exposed as outdated and moralistic at the moment that it has become the last repository of the free and the public. Our ambition is to redefine the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store.”
Smithsonian Museum Courtyard, Washington, D.C.
Design: Foster & Partners
photo : Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
Smithsonian Institute
The former United States Patent Building was rescued from demolition in 1958 by President Eisenhower, who transferred it to the Smithsonian Institution. The enclosure of the building’s grand central courtyard is the key move here, providing a massive, airy indoor space.
Major New USA Architecture Designs
July 17, 2024
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Architects: Snøhetta
photo : Casey Dunn
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
June 10, 2024
The Gordie Howe International Bridge, Detroit, Michigan
Architect: Erik Behrens – AECOM
photos : Diana Paulson and Nev Muftari
The Gordie Howe International Bridge in Detroit
June 8, 2024
Michigan Central Station Reopening, Detroit, MI
Original Design: Warren and Wetmore
Renewal Design: Quinn Evans
Michigan Central Station Detroit
May 18, 2024
Hyatt Centric Hotel, downtown Austin, Texas
Architects: Nelsen Partners
photo : Nick Simonite
Hyatt Centric Austin, Texas hotel
May 9, 2024
Bruce Museum , Greenwich, Connecticut
Design: EskewDumezRipple
photo : Tim Hursley
Bruce Museum Greenwich Building
May 16, 2023
Steelhouse Music Venue, Omaha, Nebraska
Design: Ennead Architects
photo : Aislinn Weidele, courtesy of Ennead Architects
Steelhouse Music Venue Omaha Nebraska
May 12, 2023
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas
Architects: Studio Gang
photo © Iwan Baan
Little Rock Art Museum Arkansas
November 14, 2022
The Clearing – Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial, Newtown, Connecticut
Design: SWA Group
photo courtesy of SWA Group
Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial
November 14, 2022
Orlando International Airport Terminal C, Orlando, Florida
Design: Gentilhomme Studio
International Airport Terminal C Orlando
November 1, 2022
Founders Hall at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, Seattle, Washington
Design: LMN Architects
photo : Tim Griffith
Founders Hall, University of Washington
US Building Projects
US Architecture, alphabetical:
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, northern California
Studio Daniel Libeskind, architects
Contemporary Jewish Museum Building
Crystal Cathedral, Los Angeles, California
Philip Johnson with John Burgee
Crystal Cathedral Building
COR Building, Miami, Florida
Oppenheim Architecture + Design
COR Condominium Miami : cor tower
GRAM – Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Design: wHY architecture
GRAM Michigan
Museum Plaza, Louisville
REX, architects
Louisville skyscraper design
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Design: Steven Holl Architects
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Extension
Perot Museum of Nature & Science, Texas
Design: Morphosis
Perot Museum of Nature & Science
Spaceport America, New Mexico
Foster + Partners
Spaceport New Mexico
University of Iowa building, Iowa City
Design: Steven Holl Architects
University of Iowa Building
Utah Museum of Natural History
Ennead Architects
Utah Museum of Natural History
ViILA NM, New York
Design: UNStudio
ViILA NM New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Herzog & de Meuron with HGA, Inc.
Walker Art Center
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, southern California
Gehry Partners, architects
Walt Disney Concert Hall Building
Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Texas
Foster + Partners
Winspear Opera House
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Frank Lloyd Wright house – design by Frank Lloyd Wright in New Hampshire
American Housing : key buildings + designs
Frank Gehry – Famous American architect
American Building Types – alphabetical
American Concert Hall Architecture
American Convention Center Designs
American Memorial Architecture
American Railway Station Designs
American College Building
USA Architect Office : Richard Meier & Partners, Architects
American Architecture Conference
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