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KANSAS

01- Performing Arts Centre, Kansas City
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Moshe Safdie Architects

02- Bloch building, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
2007
Stephen Holl

03- Exploration Place, Wichita
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Moshe Safdie Architects

04- Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park
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Kyu Sung Woo Architects

05- Performing Arts Centre, Kansas City
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Moshe Safdie Architects

06- Wichita House
1947
Richard Buckminster Fuller

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WISCONSIN

07- Taliesin III, Spring Green
1925
Frank Lloyd Wright

08- Milwaukee Art Museum - Quadracci Pavilion, 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee
2001
Santiago Calatrava Architects
incl. Reiman Bridge
Quadracci Pavilion forms extension to War Memorial by Eero Saarinen

09- S. C. Johnson Research Tower, Racine
1944/47
Frank Lloyd Wright
aka Johnson Wax Research Tower

10- Taliesin III, Spring Green, Wisconsin
1911-25/38
Frank Lloyd Wright
Link: Taliesin West in Arizona

11- Unitarian Church, Shorewood Hills
1947
Frank Lloyd Wright

12- War Memorial, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee
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Eero Saarinen
Extended by Santiago Calatrava as Quadracci Pavilion

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Missouri

13- Nelson Atkins Museum of Art - Extension, Kansas
2002-07
Steven Holl Architects

14- Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
2001
Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

15- Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St Louis
2006
Maki And Associates

16- Saint Louis Art Museum Expansion, Saint Louis, Missouri
2007-
David Chipperfield

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OKLAHOMA

17- Bavinger House, Norman
1950
Bruce Goff Architect

18- Boston Avenue Methodist Church, Tulsa
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Bruce Goff

19- Joe Price House & Studio Bartlesville
1956-1974; destroyed by fire 1996
Bruce Goff Architect

20- Price Tower Arts Centre, Bartlesville
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Zaha Hadid Architects

21- Price Company Tower, Bartlesville
1952
Frank Lloyd Wright

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22- Chicken Point Cabin, Northern Idaho
2003
Tom Kundig Architect

23- Sun Valley Center for the Arts building, Ketchum, Idaho
2007
Tom Kundig Architect

24- The Atheneum, at New Harmony, Indiana
1979
Richard Meier Architects
 

 

mid-west historical architecture
     
001 Gateway Arch St. Louis, MO 002 Union Station Kansas City, MO 003 Union Station St. Louis, MO
     
004 Taliesin Spring Green, WI 005 Legal Research Building, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 006 Douglas House Harbor Springs, MI
     
007 Paul Brown Stadium Cincinnati, OH 008 IDS Center Minneapolis, MN 009 Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
     
010  Weisman Art Museum Minneapolis, MN 011 Dana-Thomas House Springfield, IL 012 The Athenaeum New Harmony, IN
 
013 Columbus, Illinois. 014 Cahokia Courthouse, Cahokia, IL 015 Riverside, IL
016 Ward W. Willits house, Highland Park, IL 017 Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL 018 Farnsworth house, Plano, IL
019 Ruth Ford house, Aurora, IL 020 National Farmers' Bank, Owatonna, MN 021 St. John's Abbey Church, Collegeville, MN
022 McGregor Memorial Conference Center, Wayne State U., Detroit, MI 023 College Life Insurance Company, Indianapolis, IN 024 Morse-Libby house, Portland, ME
025 Wainwright Building, St. Louis, MO 026 William L. Clements Library, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 027  Johnson Wax Administration Building, Racine, WI
   
028 First Herbert Jacobs house, Madison, WI    
     
 
 
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