A near-verbatim recitation of the great New York apartments of yesteryear, Robert A.M. Stern’s ‘Limestone Jesus’ heralded a major architectural trend and delivered one of the most commercially successful condominium developments in the history of the city.
Kevin Roche’s only completed commission in his home town survived bureaucratic infighting, spiralling budgets and public disdain to become a catalyst for the revival of Dublin’s Docklands as a thriving business district.
A workplace for scientists and a machine for solar spectacle, Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute is functional, poetic – and impossible to photograph.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture by J Max Bond Jr is a crucial component of Harlem's thriving cultural scene and the embodiment of its architect's aptitude for projects that combined civic idealism with understated aesthetics.
Technical virtuosity, madcap curatorship, and a remarkable eye for detail combine to secure the Soane Museum’s status as architecture’s intellectual funhouse
The first of Mitterrand’s grands projets, the Arab World Institute was born of an unlikely marriage between a politically charged brief and an architect with a penchant for nightclubs and radical ideas.
