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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.
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.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Carlo Scarpa's 1963 renovation of a Venetian palazzo — where water is not kept out but invited in, and every joint is a meditation on how materials meet.
Negozio Olivetti
Research links for Negozio Olivetti
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.
Neues Museum
David Chipperfield's restoration of Friedrich August Stüler's war-damaged Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island — neither reconstruction nor contrast, but a dialogue between ruin and repair.