Designed by Estudio de Arquitectura Aguilera Salvador Soria, Parliament Complex for new government complex is located in Quito, Ecuador. The design incorporates an architectural and urban development on a long-term basis throughout the city. It emphasises the fact that Quito ‘Luz de América’ (Light of America), is a city where faith, liberty and culture coincide, projecting itself to the...
Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center that located in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, was designed by Lord Aeck Sargent Architecture. The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the first and longest rural parkways in America, winding 496 miles through scenic mountain ranges and past seemingly endless vistas. So when the National Park Service decided the area needed a destination center to orient visitors...
Located in Philadelphia, United States, National Museum of American Jewish History was designed by Polshek Partnership Architects. Two independent and contrasting volumes define the building’s exterior. A translucent glass prism expresses the museum’s accessibility, the openness of America and the fragility of democracy while a second terra cotta volume, behind which is located the Museum’s collections...
Cooper Hewitt Museum 2010 National Design Awards is located in New York, NY, United States. Rodarte took the top award in the category of fashion design. Founded in 2005 by Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte is an up and coming American fashion house which has received the 2009 Womenswear Designer of the Year Award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America and the prestigious Swiss Textiles Award...
Designed by Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, Salameno Spiritual Center is located in Mahwah, New Jersey, United States. As the media spotlight remains firmly focused on the multi-faith cultural centre at Park51 in New York City, many more institutions across America have begun to introduce non-denominational sanctuaries for public use. Located on originally sacred ground – formerly used as...