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Travel: Chicago: Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank's home and studio:

Robie House

Travel: Chicago

Just got back safe and sound from the WAC trip to Chicago.  I will be posting photos soon!

Travel: Chicago: Jazz

Currently I am in chicago at a jazz bar. Chicago is incredible!

Travel: New York City: Empire State Building: 1.12.10

 

 All of these photos were taken from the top of the Empire State Building.

Travel: Philadelphia

Philadelphia PA. 30th street station. I have never experienced this part of the station before. The columns are massive stone, and the lighting effects of the uplighting are very impressive.

Travel: NYC

Another Frank Gehry building in New York City. The Beekman Tower skyscraper was originally designed as a 76 story tower, but will only be 38 floors due to the economy.
Apple Store NYC.
Louis Vuitton designed by Jun Aoki in 2004.
Radio City Music Hall.
Central Park from The Top of the Rock.
Empire State building and Manhattan from The Top of the Rock.
Times Square.

Travel: Brooklyn Bridge, NYC

Manhattan Bridge. This bridge was built right next to the Brooklyn Bridge due to over crowding. It is located almost on top of the other.
Brooklyn Bridge from the awesome Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory store below it. Chocolate Chunk was incredible.
Brooklyn Bridge.
Bridge Structure.

Overlooking Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge.

Travel: High Line, NYC

The High Line Website

The High Line was originally created in the 1930s to elevate the freight rails off the street in New York City.

It is now an elevated green space, that once complete will be a 1.5 mile long stretch of green space, benches, and meandering concrete pathways.

Above are the elevated benches that seem to grow out of the concrete pathways.
Above bench again.
Existing railway tracks left with new vegetation plantings.
View from High Line to 21st street.
Frank Gehry IAC Building was completed in 2007. This is Frank Gehry's first commercial office building in New York City. It is also his first building skin constructed entirely out of a glass curtain wall system.

The Chelsea Modern Apartments were designed by female Architect Audrey Matlock. She has designed over 50 projects worldwide.

View of the High Line Park.

Travel: World War II Memorial: Washington D.C.

The United States National World War II Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the Americans who served in the armed forces during WWII. It is constructed on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.

The sighting of this building, as well as all of the other memorials in Washington D.C. are staged very well in relation to one another. The procession between the spaces and the other memorials is truly breathtaking and provides a place for people to reflect inwards.

The design of the memorial drew 400 submissions from architects and designers around the United States. Friedrich St. Florian's design was selected in 1997, yet was altered during the review and approval processes for memorials in Washington D.C..

The Freedom Wall is on the West side of the memorial that has 4,048 gold stars each representing 100 Americans that died in the war.

I was really happy to finally be able to see this memorial because my grandfather fought in the war. I am very grateful that a memorial was finally erected to commemorate the solders of the war. This was is very powerful memorial that I think very very successful despite the critiques that the memorial is too blocky and monumental. I think that the space is at a human scale that is relatable to the individual.

Travel: Washington, D.C.

The St. Regis Hotel in Washington D.C. was built in 1926 and is just two blocks away from The White House. The ceiling of the lobby was very ornate and detailed. Harry Wardman was an English Architect who was the son of textile workers. At age 17 he came to the United States, and after several years of living in the United States, he began working as a carpenter which helped him design row homes, and hotels with very high quality construction detailing and materials.

The White House was built between 1792 and 1800. John Adams was the first president to move into the White House. The White House was designed in a competition which had 9 proposals. The design was inspired by Georgian era Irish country houses in plan and interior details. Inspirations also are derived from neo-classical chateaus. Since the original construction of the building, it has went under many renovations with each new president.

The buildings of Washington D.C. are very conservative and designed in the romanesque, classical style. These buildings really inspire me to focus on the details of tectonics and the layering effect of spaces and materials. The deep inset windows of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building creates a very strong contrast of shadowing effects.