The new buildings face the Kimbell Art Museum, the finest post-war building in Texas, and the building against which any new architecture in the state will be measured in the current museum-athon.
Architect James Bogardus, who designed the Italianite building, pioneered cast-iron architecture and popularized it in Lower Manhattan.
While the 103 guest rooms and suites are now light-splashed and modern, the familiar Spanish-style architecture remains it now matches the new 12, 000-square-foot building which houses a bell tower, fitness studio, Spa by La Prairie and three airy guest rooms with open floor plans and retractable interior walls.
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He is an Old Boy of the city's King Edward's School and has an apartment in that triumph of 'statement architecture', the 25-storey Cube building which now towers over Gas Street Basin.
Early in 2008, the Scottish government created a new Directorate for the Built Environment bringing together internal interests on planning, building standards and architecture with a view to greater co-ordination of policies.
Berkeley Homes disputed this claim saying an architecture firm was the previous occupant of the eight-storey building.
They define an eyesore building as one, of usually modern architecture, on a high-profile site, strongly visible both in the immediate area and from a distance, and which has resulted in widespread criticism and condemnation.
Its full 120m height is still under construction (its 19th floor is open to visitors), but thanks to its 27 floors of luxury apartments and use of sustainable architecture, it just might be the most-talked about new building in Rome since the MAXXI, built by starchitect Zaha Hadid and opened in 2010.
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Moving between the worlds of architecture and graphics, Rizzi also designed the Happy Rizzi House - an office building in Germany, the front page of a newspaper in Hamburg and three versions of the New Beetle for Volkswagen in 1999.
The building, designed by global architecture firm NBBJ, will be comprised of a 10-story tower, an amenity pavilion and parking garage.
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The major CRM software vendors could then re-direct their efforts from building their own inferior Social CRM functionality inside of older architecture and instead apply their resources to updating and expanding their applications so that they can be used to capture all that social media data.
From Graves' Impala, one can see another Davis-backed building by a star architect, Robert Stern , dean of Yale's architecture school.
It was Thomas Jefferson's favorite classical building--in fact, Jefferson based his whole conception of Neo-Classical architecture on it--and one obviously had to approach such a historical object with caution.
The full, fascinating story of the building is told in a richly detailed exhibition, "Architecture at Cooper, 1859-2009, " drawn from the institution's extensive archives and on view in the Foundation Building through Dec. 11.
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