San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

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Mario Botta designed the SFMOMA in San Francisco, completed in 1995.

With artworks by Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Ansel Adams, and Andy Warhol, this is one of the world's leading modern art museums. It has five floors of galleries with 15,000 pieces of artwork. The $65-million project includes a back sculpture garden by Jensen Architects and landscaping by CMG Landscape.

The intricate brick work typical for Botta seems to reference the pre-earthquake San Fransisco. The strong symmetry, minimal vertical windows, and emerging linear comes straight out of early modernism (as post-modernism.) The white and black horizontal stripes at the entrance echo the brick pattern, and continue inside through the lobby, up the five floors, and finally emerge in a grand oculus. It is titled toward the sun, and floods the interior space with daylight, while providing some natural stack-heat venting. A walk bridge crosses the tall space near the top.

The San Francisco modern art museum acts as a historical museum of more recent history. But it also is a brilliant place to visit and truly uplifting.

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Architecture Calendar For 2010

Now available, Architecture Revived has compiled the best photos from 2010 architecture into a calendar for the holiday season. The price is $19.89, a small portion of which I receive for the betterment of this site.

Hansaviertel Housing Altonaer Straße 4-14, Berlin Germany

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Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer designed this hochhaus in the Hansaviertel area of Berlin, completed in 1957. The 72 meter building contains 78 living units.

The entire structure is lifted off the ground floor in LeCorbusier fashion to open up the outside public area. Elevators are separated 7 meters from the building to clearly delineate the circulation route.

German apartment buildings take care to place living spaces facing the sun with balconies providing shading in the summer. One entire floor is dedicated to community activities for the entire building.

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Driftwood Pavilion DRL10, Bedford Square London

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The Architectural Association School of Architecture presented their fourth annual summer pavilion series in Bedford Square, London England. Students Danecia Sibingo, Lyn Hayek, Yoojin Kim, and Taeyoung Lee designed the 2009 summer project, drawing inspiration from the ancient Petra.

The 28 layers of plywood flow in a self-assuming organic shape, appearing as an evolved object. This aesthetic recalls the designs of AA alumni Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas.

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Stone House, Fafe Portugal

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Straight out of the Flinstones, this house consists of a roof, windows, door, and chimney inside a large boulder. I don't know if the stone is real or fake, it seems to be some sort of composite material. The cavernous interior is candle lit with simple log platforms and furniture. Large windmills spin nearby.

Seems dorky at first, but it actually brings up some very interesting issues, on the value of the "modern stone-age family."

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The Cleveland Museum of Art East Wing, Ohio

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Rafael Viñoly the new East Wing of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), which opened in June 2009. It is part of a large renovation project that is scheduled for completion in 2012.

Hubbell and Benes designed the original building, completed in 1916, and Marcel Breuer designed an addition in 1971.

A curved glass skylit roof covers the gathering courtyard in Vinoly's 2012 addition. In all there will be 21 new galleries. Circulation in existing galleries will be changed to face a new central axis, for improved coherence and unity. The new East Wing assumes a striped granite exterior like it's neighbor. As the overall design comes into fruition it becomes more clear what each design moves means.

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Milan Cathedral, Milano Italy

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Over the top! The Duomo di Milano is an evolutionary feat of architecture and artifice. Though construction began in the fourteenth century under Antonio da Saluzzo, it was only very recently completed in 1965. French designers Nicolas de Bonaventure and Jean Mignot began a Gothic building, unusual for Italy, which over the years assumed classic Roman features. Milan's wealth and prestige fueled an increasingly extravagant church that today stands as the fourth largest in the world.

It seems odd that the historic clash between Italy and France would produce such a remarkable construct. The form takes the best of both worlds to the extreme, with a punctuation of detail. Visitors can climb to a roof level among the spires of the church, a new innovation for cathedrals. This allows the worshiper to experience the symbolized heavenly realm in a way that connects back to the city.

Light and raw material is relished together in a way new to the Gothic or Roman style. The stained glass walls establish an illusionary spiritual realm within the looming space, according to Gothic principles, but carefully placed apertures give additional daylighting to the structure.

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Zaragoza Las Delicias Station, Zargoza Spain

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The Estación Zaragoza Delicias in Zaragoza serves Spain's high speed railway between Barcelona and Madrid. The highly efficient design for Zargoza's new station handles a large number of visitors and high speed trains. Locals dislike the station because the modern skylights make it hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and because of it's remote location.

The station was designed by Carlos Ferrater, J. M. Valero, José María F. Arranz, and E. Mateu. It opened in 2003, just in time for political elections.

The simple, rational space is capped by a sophisticated tetrahedra exterior structure with checkered skylights for the massive interior spaces. The spaces are simply broken up according to platform in three long rows.

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Shanghai Pudong International Airport, China

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The Shanghai Pudong International Airport replaced the Hongqiao in 1999. Two more runways opened in the following years, and Terminal 2 opened in 2008. The third Terminal will open shortly.

The first Terminal (photo above) resembles the famous Kansai International Airport in Japan, with stacked gates and a waving roof form. The second Terminal, by Richard Rogers, is round with a upper skylight lighting scheme rather than large ribbon windows.

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