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The story of how the Petersen Automotive Museum leapt into the 21st century with a futuristic steel exoskeleton design strongly influenced by car culture
Robin Fisher explores this building, located at the gateway of Los Angeles’ famous Museum Row, extensively renovated through the work of Kohn Pedersen Fox and A.Zahner.
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The 1920s Dymaxion House designed to be an innovative housing solution for American citizens by architect/inventor Richard Buckminster-Fuller
Robin Fisher tells the story of this futuristic, dynamic, all-terrain, all-weather home created from aluminium.
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An overview of The Egg Theatre – a futuristic example of brutalist architecture
If you ever find yourself in New York State, in the city of Albany, take a walk to the Rockefeller Empire State Plaza. There you will find The Egg Theatre – a centre for the performing arts. The Egg’s design is the very definition of brutalist architecture. This concrete structure would fit into any secret…
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Minoru Yamasaki’s polarizing design of Rainier Tower – a monument to the principles of New Formalism architecture
Minoru Yamasaki was born in Seattle, Washington on 1st December 1913. He was a Japanese-American architect whose parents were immigrants to the United States looking for a better life. He is widely regarded as one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century, having designed amongst other renowned buildings, the original World Trade Center…
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Hermitage Gantois, Lille, France – from hospital to luxurious hotel
Robin Fisher traces the history and architecture of this fifteenth century hospital which has become a five-star hotel with a hallmark exterior of perforated aluminium cladding powder-coated to look like rusty steel.
colored, harder, tougher stainless steel