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TWA Flight Center
Eero Saarinen's sculptural terminal at JFK — a concrete shell that made flight feel like flight before you ever left the ground.
Schindler House
Rudolph Schindler's 1922 experiment in living — a house built from concrete, glass, and canvas that dissolved the boundary between indoor and outdoor life in West Hollywood.
Transamerica Pyramid
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ETH Zurich
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Notre-Dame du Haut
Applying Harold Rosenberg's concept of Action Painting to Le Corbusier's first sketch for the Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut — where the tracing paper becomes an arena in which to act.
Palais de Tokyo
A raw concrete vessel for contemporary art on the banks of the Seine, where the architecture refuses to compete with the work it holds.
Villa La Roche
Le Corbusier's 1925 manifesto in built form — a house designed as a promenade architecturale, where movement through space is the architecture itself.
California Academy of Sciences
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Hyatt Regency San Francisco
John Portman's atrium hotel on the Embarcadero — a vertical interior city where concrete balconies spiral upward around a seventeen-story void.
Chapel of St. Ignatius
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Seattle Central Library
Rem Koolhaas and OMA's diamond-skinned library in downtown Seattle — a building that treats books, light, and public space as a single continuous material.
Taipei Performing Arts Center
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羅東文化工場 Luodong Cultural Working House
A massive open-air canopy in Luodong, Yilan — Huang Sheng-Yuan's public stage that shelters gathering without enclosing it.
櫻花陵園 Cherry Blossom Cemetery
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