Peter Eisenman Architects and HOK designed the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It was completed in 2006. The soft rolling form is inspired from a barrel cactus and is divided into 22 sections by vertical slits. These slits …
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(o palsson– flickr/creative commons license) Richard Hein designed the Catholic Chapel of the Holy Cross in 1956 for Frank Lloyd Wright student Marguerite Brunswig Staude. The team got special permission to build on Coconino National Forest, and the total cost …
(Cygnusloop99– wikipedia/creative commons license) The Coor Hall at ASU opened in 2004. It was designed by Gensler and Jones Studio. and glass etching was by BJ Krivanek. The etchings in various languages sometimes play on sun angles, to cast shadows …
(Dru Bloomfield – At Home in Scottsdale– flickr/creative commons license) Frank Lloyd Wright’s rejected proposal for the Arizona State Capitol looks like it came straight out of the pages of the 1499 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Now on display at his old …
(dpape– flickr/creative commons license) It looks like it came straight out of a eighties post-apocolyptic film. Italian architect Paolo Soleri developed Arcosanti as an ecological design, with complex organic forms that integrate multiple systems of structure, circulation, and so forth.The …
(ellen forsyth– flickr/creative commons license) The Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix, Arizona by William Bruder and DWL Architects is one of 15 significant libraries that the city has invested in. It holds 705,000 items and 151 public computers on …
( Nick Schweitzer/Schwnj – wikipedia/creative commons license) The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona is the first LEED platinum building in that state. Building received gold-level certification in 2004 and Building B shown above received platinum, the …