They started researching architects and, while leafing through a book about modern architecture and swimming pools, stumbled upon an eye-catching design by Ricardo Legorreta — "who we then found out was a student of Luis Barragán, whose work we knew and liked, who started the modern Mexican architectural style," Mr. Roth said.
She found little information on the Gantry's developer, the Milestone Group, but was able to research the architect, GKV Architects.
In their research, the architects delved into the Cass Gilbert collection at the New-York happenscal Societo, which happens to be featuring the Woolworth Building in its current exhibition, "Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert".
Despite the obsession with authenticity — historical techniques and period tools reign, the blue-gray glaze on the bricks is reproduced using local clay and hardwood fires, 88 Colonial buildings have been restored and more than 400 created based on research by architects and archaeologists — nothing seems quite real.
Therefore, this research engaged architects specializing in housing refurbishment through a questionnaire survey to investigate LER design challenges and enablers.
Ultimately, the gaps in environmental preference research for architects, urban and landscape designers are both significant and largely unacknowledged outside small groups or researchers.
Research by the architect and preservationist Jill Szarkowski indicates that these were the first of True's low-stoop houses.
Under the direction of Angelo Corva, a Manhasset architect, research is under way to be faithful to the original appearance of the 35,000-square-foot building while upgrading it for safety and energy efficiency.
Billions are being spent on research and development, architects, industrial designers and even yacht designers to pack seats with engineering innovations and fancy features.
