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Life Sciences Building

November 15, 2011

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A two-story, 35,000-square-foot center for Paradise Valley Community College's life sciences programs.

Campus de l'Innovation, de l'economie et du sport by 109architectes and Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates

Beirut

November 15, 2011

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Université Saint-Joseph gets a new campus on Damascus Road, one of Beirut's main thoroughfares.

Durant Hall, University of California, Berkeley

Mark Cavagnero refreshes and subtly reorganizes a century-old building in the historic core of a storied campus.

John King

November 15, 2011

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When architect John Galen Howard mapped a Beaux-Arts plan for the University of California, Berkeley campus in the early 20th century, one of the first buildings erected in its spirit was Durant Hall—a two-story steel-framed structure completed in 1911 and wrapped in granite along classical lines.

Frick Chemistry Laboratory

November 15, 2011

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A four-story, 239,992-square-foot building for Princeton University's chemistry department, with research and departmental labs and a 256-seat auditorium in the basement, teaching labs and a café on the ground floor, and research labs on the upper three floors.

Gilman Hall, Johns Hopkins University

Kliment Halsband replaces the void at the core of a stately building with a lively space for study and socializing.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

November 15, 2011

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When a college expands and grows, building shiny state-of-the art facilities at its periphery, the oldest buildings at the heart of campus are sometimes neglected.

Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Providence, Rhode Island

November 15, 2011

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A three-story, 38,815-square-foot interdisciplinary arts center in Providence, Rhode Island, contains mix of Brown University's departments, including theater, dance, music, and visual art.

Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges

KieranTimberlake’s renovation and expansion retains the medieval-modern spirit of the Eero Saarinen–designed complex at Yale.

Suzanne Stephens

November 15, 2011

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While regarded as one of Eero Saarinen's most distinctive works during his short career, the Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges at Yale University (1958–62) in New Haven have long seemed more appealing in photographs than in real life.

Asia Society Texas Center

A Quiet New Neighbor Moves in: Yoshio Taniguchi has returned to the U.S. for his second significant commission here—an elegantly restrained new home for the Asia Society Texas Center.

Beth Broome

November 15, 2011

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Yoshio Taniguchi has returned to the U.S. for his second significant commission here—an elegantly restrained new home for the Asia Society Texas Center.

Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel & Conference Centre

A Rome-based firm fuses architecture and industrial design to create a fitting gateway to Milan and a welcome upgrade for its high-traffic airport.

Linda C. Lentz

November 15, 2011

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Airport hotels are rarely, if ever, listed in travel guides as “worth a visit.”

Nehemiah Spring Creek Housing by Alexander Gorlin Architects

Brooklyn, New York

September 16, 2011

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New York-based firm Alexander Gorlin Architects design an affordable housing development in Brooklyn that evokes the borough's classic row houses.

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