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Separated at Birth: Architects Say The Darndest Things

by John Massengale Posted on August 25, 2015

ARCHITECTS would describe these as “original,” and perhaps even as “unprecedented reality”… Separated at Birth 2014 Separated At Birth: One Santa Fe & One Western Avenue Separated At Birth

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Separated at Birth 2014

by John Massengale Posted on December 29, 2014

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Separated At Birth: One Santa Fe & One Western Avenue

by John Massengale Posted on December 22, 2014

ONE’S IN the Los Angeles Arts District, the other’s at Harvard Business School. In addition to the 40-ton Swords of Damocles overhead, they share little human scale* and little to even show that humans live there. The critics love both, … Continue reading →

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Separated at Birth

by John Massengale Posted on October 24, 2014

Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, Texas, meet The Borg, Alpha Quadrant, Outer Space. People have long said that Thom Mayne’s buildings have all the human scale and attractiveness of menacing alien spaceships,* but “Why ask why?” — “Resistance … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Separated at Birth

Separated at Birth: Architects Say The Darndest Things

Separated at Birth 2014

Separated At Birth: One Santa Fe & One Western Avenue

Separated at Birth

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