Morphosis

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Graduate House at the University of Toronto
Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California

Morphosis is an American, international architecture firm .

history

The company was founded in 1972 by Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi with the aim of developing an architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional design languages. At first, Morphosis was just a loose working group. The first assignment was a school in Pasadena that Mayne's son attended. This was followed by a number of residential projects, including Lawrence Residence . Since then, Morphosis has grown into one of the most well-known architectural firms in the United States, accepting orders from all over the world.

Buildings

  • The building for the headquarters of Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank in Klagenfurt , Osteinfahrt, built 1997–2000, opened in September 1999 consists of a cuboid with an aluminum-glass façade, which lies between two large, longer, only slightly transparent cladding walls. Despite pressure from the state cultural advisor Jörg Haider , the building was not awarded a prize by the jury of the Carinthian State Building Prize in 1999 . "On the outside an expressive architectural sculpture, inside a tangle of remaining rooms, in which workplaces are somehow arranged, partly dark, partly overexposed." On December 16, 2015, the rotating logo of Hypo on the building roof was dismantled.
  • Residential complex in Madrid ;
  • Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California ;
  • a new government building in Alaska ;
  • the 2012 Olympic Village in New York City . This is to be built despite the allocation of the Games to London .
  • 300-meter high-rise in the La Défense business district in Paris . The building, christened “Le Phare” (lighthouse), should be ready by 2017.
  • the 350 meter high Hanking Center Tower in Shenzhen in the Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Staircase into Nowhere" orf TVthek September 18, 1999, 8:00 a.m., accessed December 16, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tvthek.orf.at
  2. ↑ http://www.bauberufe.eu/images/doks/Hypo_Palazzo_Prozzo_Scan.pdf Martin Behr. The Hypo parent company: a symbol of mismanagement: Palazzo Prozzo. Salzburger Nachrichten, print, April 18, 2015, Architektur S. 16. On: www.bauberufe.eu. Quoted from jury member Otto Kapfinger, architect, publicist from 2003. Accessed December 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ http://kaernten.orf.at/news/stories/2747798/ Hypo logo removed from roof, orf.at December 16, 2015, accessed December 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ http://morphopedia.com/projects/phare-tower

Web links

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