The Architecture Highlights Tour starts downtown, across the street from the visitors center at the First Christian Church, built in 1942, the city’s first foray into modern architecture.

Major elements of midcentury modern architecture, such as nonstructural exterior curtain walls, glass facades on skyscrapers, and curved reinforced concrete roofs, remain common forms. That all ...

Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces curates "landmark architecture" from the 1950s ... might be compared with the one at the Post Office Tower in London, which was completed just a few ...

In that whole full-block assemblage, you can read the evolution of the modern office building, from the tower-as-corporate-logo to the architecture of disappearance, from shaft of marble to a ...

The real estate man was complaining about the lack of modern architecture downtown ... The glass-and-steel Hudson’s Tower has risen to its full height. Henry Ford Health System’s planned ...

Pushing the envelope, especially upward, was a skill of the late Portland architect James Oliver. His private residence, a six-story tower on a ... Other inventive and modern features earned ...

The currently unnamed skyscraper is designed by Michael Green Architecture (MGA), the founder of which is a pioneer of modern timber construction ... height increase. The tower will be partially ...

He oversaw the destruction of Victorian architecture, including the old Birmingham New Street station and the Central Library, making way for modern tower blocks and an urban landscape that ...