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Early this afternoon, during a preview of his firm’s new building for the Perez Art Museum Miami, Jacques Herzog sat in a window seat in a second floor gallery and discussed what the building lacked. “It doesn’t really have a form,” he said, looking out at Biscayne Bay past rows of thin concrete columns supporting a trellis overhead. “It’s more about its permeability. There is so much form in Miami. We wanted to do something that shows the potential in this city to let in sun and vegetation.” In a town where form is often everything and ornament is the

For a small, private educational institution, Colby College has assembled a formidable cache of American art, including work by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, John Marin, and Alex Katz, among others.

In 2010, Moscow-based architecture photographer Alexey Naroditskiy shot Le Corbusier's contributions to the Indian city of Chandigarh, which the architect masterplanned in the 1950s. In 2011 Naroditskiy's photos appeared in an exhibition at the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. We share some of them here in light of Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, opening June 15 at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Click the image below.

The George W. Bush Presidential Center by Robert A. M. Stern Architects is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas. Visitors enter through the limestone portico. The George W. Bush Pres­i­den­tial Center, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, does not reflect the colorful nature of the 43rd president’s personality. Nor does it symbolically suggest the fact that Bush was the first president of the 21st century. Although the three-story brick-and-limestone building is the first presidential library to contain e-mails—some 200 million—its design is traditional,

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.

A four-level, 46,500-square-foot cultural center in downtown Charlotte. Situated on a narrow 50-by-400-foot tract, the project includes galleries, classrooms, offices, and event space.

Steven Holl made his first sketches for the Knut Hamsun Center, in the municipality of Hamarøy, Norway, in 1994.

A single-story, 3,600-square-foot art gallery with offices, two galleries, a private viewing room, a preparator's area, and a flower garden that can accommodate sculptures.

For the hordes of tourists stuck in lines for the Colosseum or queuing up to enter the Sistine Chapel, Rome’s 2,000-year history acts as a powerful magnet.