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ARIZONA    
     
01 Planar House - Cottle Residence, Paradise Valley
-
Steven Holl Architects
02 Cardinals Stadium, Glendale
1997-2006
Peter Eisenman with HOK Sport
03 Community Centre & Library, Maryvale, Phoenix
2006
Gould Evans Wendell Burnette
     
04 Ellsworth Residence – desert residence
2007
Michael P. Johnson
05 Maryvale Community Center, Phoenix
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Wendell Burnette
Palo Verde Library, pool, community center, park
06 Northern Arizona University - Advanced Research & Development Facility, Flagstaff
2003-07
Hopkins Architects
     
07 Planar House - Cottle Residence, Paradise Valley
-
Steven Holl Architects
08 Quadrant House, Phoenix
-
Diller + Scofidio
09 Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, University of Arizona
2004
Gould Evans
     
10 Xeros project – house, Phoenix
2007
blank studio
   
Colorado    
     
11 Denver Art Museum - Extension, Denver
2000-06
Studio Libeskind
12 Brant-Johnson House, Vail
1977
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
13 Clyfford Still Museum, Denver
2008-10
Allied Works Architecture
     
14 Denver Art Museum - Extension, Denver
2000-06
Studio Libeskind
15 Museum of Contemporary Arts, Denver
2007
Adjaye/Associates
16 The Museum Residences, Denver
2000-06
Studio Libeskind
     
17 Key Colorado Building:
Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, Denver
reopened 7 Oct 2006
Area: 146,000 sqft
Studio Libeskind : first completed building in North America
Key material: titanium
18 Gompertz Residence, Paradise Valley, Montana
2001
RoTo Architects
19 Spaceport America NM
2007-
Foster & Partners
     
20 Sante Fe Visual Arts Centre NM
-
Legorreta & Legorreta
21 School of Architecture and Planning, Albuquerque NM University of New Mexico
2007
Antoine Predock
23 Turbulence House NM
-
Steven Holl Architects
     
24 Salt Lake City Main Public Library
-
Moshe Safdie Architects
25 Utah Museum of Natural History
2008
Polshek Partnership
26 Lehi sports entertainment complex
2008-
Frank Gehry
     
27 Marcia and John Price Museum Building, Salt Lake City
2001
Machado and Silvetti Associates, USA
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
28 Salt Lake City Main Public Library
-
Moshe Safdie Architects
29 Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah
2008
Polshek Partnership with GSBS
     
30 Seattle Public Library, Seattle
2004
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
31 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue
1997
Steven Holl Architects
32 Delta Shelter, Mazama
2003
Tom Kundig Architect
     
33 Escala, Seattle
2006
MulvannyG2 Architecture
34 Experience Music Project, Seattle
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Gehry Partners
35 Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center, Tacoma
2006
MulvannyG2 Architecture
     
36 Olive 8, Seattle, Washington
2006
MulvannyG2 Architecture with Gluckman Mayner Architects
37 The Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum
2007
Weiss Manfredi Architects
38 St Ignatius Church, Seattle
1995-97
Steven Holl Architects
     
39 School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle
2007-10;12
LMN Architects
40 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
-
Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates
41 Seattle Civic Square, Seattle
2007
Foster & Partners
     
42 Seattle Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seattle
-
MulvannyG2 Architecture
43 Seattle Public Library, Seattle
2004
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
44 Studio House, Seattle
1998
Tom Kundig Architect
     
45 “The Brain” Studio, Seattle
2001
Tom Kundig Architect
46 The Hotrod House Seattle
2006
Tom Kundig Architect
 
     
47 Davies Memorial Chapel - Hawaii Preparatory Academy
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Vladimir Ossipoff
48 IBM Building, 1240 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu
1962
Vladimir Ossipoff (latterly Ossipoff Snyder & Rowland Architects)
6 storeys, distinctive concrete grille on the facade
49 Pacific Club
-
Vladimir Ossipoff
     
50 Joslyn Art Museum – new wing, Omaha, Nebraska
1994
Sir Norman Foster & Partners
Norman Foster’s 1st US building
51 Mount Angel Abbey Library, One Abbey Drive, St Benedict (Mount Angel), Oregon
1970
Alvar Aalto
52 Public Services Building, Portland, Oregon
1992
Michael Graves Architects
     
53 Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse, Eugene, Oregon
2006
Morphosis Architecture
Federal Courthouse
54 Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
2003
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the west historical architecture
   
001 Cadet Chapel, Air Force Academy 002 Broadmoor Hotel 003 Denver International Airport
     
004 Brown Palace Hotel 005 Mauna Kea Beach Hotel 006 Old Faithful Inn
   
007 L 008 B 009 Nebraska State Capitol
     
010 Salt Lake City Public Library 011 Cincinnati Union Terminal 012 Seattle Public Library
   
013 Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa 014 Taliesin West 015 Safeco Field
 
016 Park City 017 Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, NM 018 The Governors' Palace, Santa Fe, NM
019 San Esteban, Acoma, NM 020 Equitable Savings & Loan Assn., Portland, OR 021 San Francisco Rancho de Taos, Taos, NM
 
022 San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, AZ 023 Dymaxion House near Wichita, KS 024 Equitable Savings & Loan Assn., Portland, OR
 
 
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