It would be the perfect place for an inventive architectural alternative to the prim, packaged urbanism of Battery Park City.
Interview with Buckminster Fuller, the world's most inventive architectural engineer, after inspecting three of his most recent revolutionary structures in the outdoor exhibition area of the Museum of Modern Art: an Octet Truss, or structural skeleton for a building; an black-and-white aliminum-and-monel mast constructed on the "tensigrity" principle; a Geodesic Rigid Radome.
Isabelline, vigorous, inventive, and cosmopolitan architectural style created during the joint reign of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, which in turn formed the basis for the Plateresque style.
At the Nelson-Atkins, a project in many ways comparable to the National Gallery, Holl has produced as striking and inventive a piece of architectural form as anything by Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, or Jean Nouvel, and yet it is a serene and exhilarating place in which to view art.
Scholars such as Doğan Kuban describe Fatimid architecture as "inventive more in decoration than in broad architectural concept", although he acknowledges that the Fatimids contributed to a distinct style of mosque.
Using pattern, scale, tonality and reflections to great advantage, Phyllis Goodfriend's inventive compositions based on Manhattan architectural details stand apart.
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, (respectively, born April 19 , 1950 Basel, Switzerland born May 8 , 1950 Basel) Swiss architects known for their reappropriation of traditional architectural elements and their inventive use of both natural and artificial materials.
The methods which have been adapted for the purpose of architectural design are the Inventive Principles.
He was, of course, a gifted, inventive photographer; his introduction of real people into architectural images is considered groundbreaking.
Outside his crumbling edifice, his neighborhood is being rebuilt by a Dutch charity, Cordaid, and other groups in an inventive collaboration with homeowners, who are empowered to choose the architectural design, buy the materials, hire the masons trained by the groups and oversee their personal projects.
From a floating cyclepath to the Circle Line Travelator, architectural design firms are coming up with ever-more inventive ways to connect commuters to their places of work in London.
