Architecture By Type
Architecture classified by its use.
Miami Dade College to Expand Downtown Campus
It looks like Miami Dade College is taking advantage of the economy and looking to build a new building in it’s Wolfson Campus in Downtown Miami. According to the Miami Today News, the school plans to add a 110,000 square-foot building on a college owned parcel currently occupied by a basketball court. The site is [...]
Zyscovich Architects New Images for Synagogue In Brickell
A few months ago, there were reports that a new synagogue was coming to Brickell / Downtown Miami. New images of the Zyscovich Architects designed synagogue have been released as the new institution moves into a capital campaign and one step closer to becoming a reality.
AAA 32 – The Miami Special Edition
For anybody that has not checked it out, the architecture magazine Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana came out with a special edition issue on Miami a few months ago. Issue 32, the Miami Special Edition, covers a nice range of new buildings in the city. The magazine highlights many of Miami’s established and young architecture firms and includes floor [...]
Herzog & De Meuron to discuss Miami Art Museum
Pierre De Meuron, founding partner of Herzog & De Meuron and Christine Binswanger, partner in charge of the project, will present the initial design for the Miami Art Museum on October 21, 2009 at 7:30pm. The presentation will be located at the Lincoln Theater in Miami Beach, down the street from two high profile projects currently under construction: [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright – Florida Southern College Exhibit
The University of Miami is hosting a photography exhibit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College by architecture photographer Robin Hill. Titled “Child of the Sun: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College”, the exhibit documents the largest integrated collection of Wright buildings in the world. The exhibit is taking place at the University of Miami School of Architecture [...]
Old Quarter of San Sebastian
The Old Quarter (Parte Vieja) is the traditional center of the port city of San Sebastian, Spain (Donostia). Since the Basque city’s inception around 1180, the historic district has served as the center and heart of San Sebastian. It’s location in northern Spain, near France, and a strategic location inside a protected bay and at the base of Monte Urgull made it an [...]
San Sebastian Mid-Rise Architecture
The streets of San Sebastian, Spain (Donostia) are defined by a rigid and regulated urban fabric of mid-rise buildings. Typical of a European city, the mid-rise buildings of San Sebastian are approximately six to eight stories in height. Tall enough to define public space, yet short enough to allow natural light and air into the streets below, the mid-rise buildings of the [...]
San Sebastian Skyline
The San Sebastian, Spain (Donostia) skyline is composed of a structured and organized urban fabric typical of a European city. Mid-rise buildings create enclosed urban spaces and streets – buildings shape and give form to identifiable public spaces within the city. Monuments and churches stand out as important elements of the broader and connected urban landscape.
Tokyo Tower and City Skyline
The Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower located in Shiba Park, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. At 333 meters (1,091 ft), it is the tallest self-supporting steel structure in the world and the tallest artificial structure in Japan.
Architectural Evaluation of Miami Performing Arts Center
This piece is written as an attempt to analyze the influence that the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (formerly Carnival Center for the Performing Arts Center) (PAC) has had on the urban fabric of Downtown Miami, its architectural ability up to date to serve as an urban generator in the [...]
Charleston Single and Double House
The Charleston Single House and Double House are two typical types of housing unique to o Charleston, South Carolina. The plans of the Robert Pringle (single) and the Horry (double) houses, which stand side by side, illustrate these two typologies better than any description. [1]
Colors and Windows of Charleston
I was especially amazed by the liveliness of the buildings and colors that make up this fabulous urban environment. Tropical and pastel colors cover many of the stucco buildings in the urban core of Charleston — from pink to blue these building colors serve as identifable elements of the city. Along East Bay Street, appropriately named Rainbow Row is an excellent example of the importance of colors to this city — featuring a variety of brick and stucco exteriors painted in a spectrum of pastels. Arched doorways, gambrel roofs and quoins on some Rainbow Row exteriors are matched in beauty by paneled wainscoting and architrave moldings inside.
Le Corbusier in the USA – The Carpenter Center in Harvard
The Carpenter Center in Harvard University is the only building on the North American continent designed by the famous architect Le Corbusier — one of the fathers of the modern movement (international style). Despite the controversy over the wisdom of placing a building of such modern design in a traditional location, Le Corbusier felt that [...]
Trinity Church in Boston — Urban Monument and Church
Trinity Church is one of the most important buildings in the development of American architecture, and established the reputation of two of the most significant figures in the history of American art and architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson and John La Farge. In 1971, Trinity was designated a National Historic Landmark for “possessing exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States.”
