Dolce & Gabbana Headquarters in Milan

The new D&G headquarters in Milan contains the showrooms for the collections, offices, a restaurant and a series of image spaces. Two buildings dating back to the 1920s and the 1960s, facing three streets, are combined in a complex with five floors above ground. The project is based on an architectural principle of great rigor, with the use of natural materials like white Namibia stone, glass and unfinished steel sheet.

Dolce & Gabbana Headquarters, by Studio Piuarch

Museum: Aomori Museum of Art

Aomori Museum of Art, by Architect Aoki Jun

Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion by Zaha Hadid

Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion, a pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects at Zaragoza Expo 2008 that doubles as a pedestrian bridge across the river Ebro in Zaragoza, Spain.

Photography by Luke Hayes

via: dezeen

Glass House in Japan

House in Minami-Boso, Chiba, Japan by Kiyonobu Nakagame & Associates

Via: Noticias Arquitectura

Newton Road House on a Cliff in New Zealand

Newton Road House, Auckland, New Zealand by Fearon Hay

Icon: Crown Hall by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A defining structure of 20th-century modern architecture, this is one of the masterpieces of the world-reknowned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Designed to house Illinois Institute of Technology’s departments of architecture, planning, and design, the building’s dramatic, structurally-expressive form resulted from the need to create an open interior space that could be flexibly adapted for changing needs and uses. Instead of interior columns, the roof is hung from exposed steel trusses bridging the depth of the building.

Designed in the early 1950′s and finished construction in 1956. Described by Time Magazine as “the world’s most influential, inspiring and astonishing structures” Crown Hall is a breathtaking, free space; intimidating with its jet black, sharp lines, while entirely inviting and open with its gigantic windows. 

I had spent my first 2 Years at the Institute of Design in the basement of this building and what struck me at the time was the perfect proportion of each and every window. The building leaked when it rained, and the students did everything to block out the dazzling light so they could work. The vast open air space and the freestanding wood paneled core set the personality for the interior.

Crown Hall, by Mies van der Rohe

Article: Wrestling with the Legacy: Metropolis

Buy the Book: Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography

Model: Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando. (Japanese, born 1941). Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan. 1984-89. Wood.

Permanent Collection MoMA

CaixaForum Opens in Madrid

Madrid’s latest art museum, the CaixaForum, has opened in the heart of the city’s cultural district near the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza museums. Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the museum is housed in a converted 1899 power station. The building — one of the city’s few remaining examples of historically significant industrial architecture — was acquired by the foundation in 2001.

CaixaForum, by Herzog & de Meuron

Glass and Steel Cliff House in New Zealand

Cliff House, Auckland, New Zealand, by Fearon Hay

Jean Nouvel Apartment Building Goes up in New York

Construction has begun in New York City on Jean Nouvel’s latest glass and steel landmark, a direct material and conceptual descendant of his Paris tour de force, the Arab World Institute. 100 11th will be a 23-story tower described by its architect as “a vision machine” at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan.

100 11th Building, New York, USA, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel.
Link: 100 11th