When early modernism came around in the 1930s, however, courtyard homes weren't as prevalent because houses tended to be more of an "object in the landscape" instead of being intertwined with the outdoors, Mr. Dick, the architect, says.
But now a leading architect says the era of super skyscrapers could be over.
"We wanted to make sure it didn't feel like something out of a theme park, " says the architect of the winery, Tom Taylor of San Francisco-based Taylor Lombardo Architects.
"There are about 400 established architectural projects making use of shipping containers around the world, " says Slovenian architect Jure Kotnik, who has written two books on the subject and is curating an international exhibition on "container architecture" currently on display at the AIA in Seattle.
The award for the most copied building goes to the White House, says Yung Ho Chang, a Chinese architect and the former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's architecture department.
It's like a modern version of "The Odd Couple", says Corey Martin, who designed the project with architect Ben Kaiser of Portland-based PATH Architecture.
"In densely populated cities where space is at a such a premium, if you want to build something new and innovative, the only place to go is up, " says Thompson Toronto project architect Rob Cadeau, who turned the hotel's rooftop into a gathering place by designing a bar adjacent to the pool area.
"A lesser developer would've taken a hike by now, " says the project's architect, Robert A.M.
The service berry can be "boring in the summer, " says Vermont landscape architect H.
San Juan, Puerto Rico's biggest city, "is the sexy younger sister of New York, " says Sotirios Kotoulas, a Canadian-born New York architect and professor at the University of Puerto Rico.
"The architecture reflected the times, " says Wu Jiang, an architect and former Shanghai urban-planning official whose grandfather was a U.S.-trained architect who worked in the city in the 1930s.
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Award-winning architect Flavio Ferreira says it's not the content of the museum but its design that he objects to.
"The level of finishing and luxury of Hemisphere brings her to the category of a superyacht, " says chief naval architect Marc Van Peteghem.
The architect in charge of the project, Barbara Nazzaro, says that visitors will be able to see where the lions, tigers, bulls, ostriches and gazelles were kept in cells before being hoisted up on 80 rope-slung lifts to the ground floor.
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.
Michael Pawlyn, a British architect specializing in sustainable design and founding member of the project, says bringing together clusters of synergistic technologies creates a new paradigm.
Mr. Schwerinthe architect of the strategy of seeking companies' approval before buying shares, says companies still want to stay private longer, thus forcing employees and other investors who want to cash out to use the secondary market.
New York City architect Richard Meier, who designed the Getty Center museum in Los Angeles, says the old design (with identical facing on each side) ignored the impact of sunlight on heating and cooling the enormous buildings.
The higher you go, for example, the more elevators you need, says James Sanders , a New York-based architect and author of Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies.
Retail banks are facing the same challenges travel agencies confronted a decade ago, says John Schlesinger, chief enterprise architect at Temenos, a core banking software company.
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Melanie Ide, an architect at New York-based Ralph Appelbaum Associates who led the Nationwide project design, says she drew on her experience working with museums to create public spaces that would provide a delightful experience while helping families find their way around.
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"We can make digital transactions much safer than in the real world, " says Kim Cameron, Microsoft's identity-and- access architect.
In San Francisco, architect Stephen Verner of Aleck Wilson Architects says most of his clients want contemporary interiors even in the oldest homes.
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