Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demigod an architect's architect and an enigmatic weaver of literary spells.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
The church's (and its architect's) connections here to Renaissance and Enlightenment ideals soon crowd out any Gothic apparitions.
WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
There is an intimacy, a sense of the architect's presence that no reproduction can achieve.
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Roosevelt, it was commissioned from Kahn in 1973, the year before the architect's sudden death.
Father used to say that the ironwork on the roof and coping was like an architect's nightmare.
Many owners of Wright homes believe the pleasures of dwelling in a legendary architect's creation far outweigh any drawbacks.
Still, figuration in Western architecture continued to be confined to those spaces provided in the architect's or builder's plan.
Among the items on display will be large-scale architect's models of some structures that were designed and drawn but never built.
But all this will remain no more than a gleam in an architect's laptop if the government pulls out of the sale.
The look of that mark depends on the architect's choice of detailing and how he or she relates it to the whole.
If the Barcelona-based architect's vision of the future comes true, you'll be seeing these marbles incorporated into buildings and serving as standalone units.
In enumerating these successive forms, we recognize the architect's brilliance in fusing varied geometries (rectangular, cubic, pyramidal and circular) into a coherent whole.
Charles Barclay, who has an architecture practice in South London, has built a bespoke bat barn that was shortlisted for a sustainability award by the British Architect's Journal last year.
In Mr Meier's 1995 Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, a long, icy cathedralesque sepulchre at the margins of the local red-light district, the small collection seems lost against the architect's bone-white walls.
Flip through the Seattle architect's portfolio and you'll see roofs that levitate on muscular pistons, angular cabins that roll across an alpine valley on wheeled stilts and Brobdingnagian hand cranks that swivel six-ton window walls.
But none of his esoteric knowledge could substitute for the multidimensional grasp of space and form and the strength and clarity with which the tensions and relationships of structure and style are expressed that are the architect's innate, creative genius.
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Seated in Kahn's Assembly Building in Dacca, Bangladesh, a professor of architecture, Shamsul Wares, tells Nathaniel that his father "was no ordinary man, " and gives a passionate recital of how the architect's vision conjured great buildings out of desolate, empty land.
Hamilton's role as the architect of America's financial system is fairly well known: he founded the Treasury department and unified the national currency and debt.
"A lesser developer would've taken a hike by now, " says the project's architect, Robert A.M.
"As an architect it's not about replacing one identity but more about enriching our work, " he said.
Cala di Volpe hotel's architect Jacques Couelle has sculpted a contemporary take on the ancient Mediterranean fishing village.
Philip Johnson used to say that what he really wanted to be was "l'architecte du roi, " the king's architect.
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UK-based computer chip designer Imagination Technologies is buying US central processing unit (CPU) architect Mips's business operations and some of its patents.
The centre's architect Zaha Hadid described the work as a "key milestone".
It also said the work carried out by CMG was independently certified by the trust's architect and approved by a monitor from the Heritage Lottery, which is supporting the project.
The nearly 4, 000-square-foot master suite has a fireplace, entry foyer and oversize walk-in closet and dressing room designed to look like a Ralph Lauren store, says Richard Robertson III, the apartment's architect.
But after Sir Norman Foster, the scheme's architect, had outlined the advantages of a promenade through the heart of London, the politicians, led by the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, gave it their enthusiastic backing.
The best work comes from the interaction and partnership of a client that understands what they need, and an architect who's willing to engage with them and figure it out and represent, with our talents, their needs as architecture.
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