The painstaking pebbled-concrete facade, formed of several curved, billowing spaces, encloses an airy, informal interior, with beautifully made bespoke furniture and artworks.
Not one of them, however, has the power of Moneo's original site-driven premise: the unapologetic and, at the time, innovative modernist rhythms of the Murcia facade form the fourth wall of an intimate and historic piazza.
Their polygonal facades form a wedge across a restored Fulton Street.
In Poitou, elaborately arcaded facades formed somewhat illogical frontispieces for spacious "three-naved" churches, with windowed aisles almost as tall as the central windowless naves.
Here the ripples that run up and down the facades form angular window bays inside, creating pockets of space that give the apartments an unusually intimate feel.
It has been applied to the front windows of the college's facade to form a radiating, see-through screen.
As you approach the corner, the facade's riotous forms suddenly come into view, and it's startling.
From certain angles the facade's concave form seems to exert a magnetic pull, as if it were trying to embrace the neighborhood in front of it.
The most glamorous part of the coast is six miles north of Copenhagen's center, when you round the bend at Klampenborg and see the bay dotted with Victorian villas and low modern apartment buildings whose white facades and curving forms reflect the seascape.
Based on the weather analysis, some innovative energy efficient technologies are utilized in the project with the consideration of architectural function, building form, facade structure, water supply and treatment system, construct-ability etc., simultaneously having some exploration on vertical city strategies and sustainable urban design and planning ideas.
The Wheatsworth building, designed by J. Edwin Hopkins, has "a granite base, terra cotta pilasters etched with bundles of wheat stalks and several bands of multi-colored terra cotta friezes" typical of the Art Deco style, and the facade's abstract sculptural forms are characteristic of the Viennese Secessionist styles, the commission said.
