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The new Brower Center in Berkeley

Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in Architecture | 5 Comments »

The recently completed David Brower Center is a memorial to a major figure in the environmental movement. The building design and its structural system were created to insure that the physical embodiment of Brower’s legacy would be a state-of-the-art expression of his life’s work.

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UC Berkeley’s new East Asian Library

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Architecture, Book Reviews | No Comments »

The C. V. Starr East Asian Library on the University of California’s Berkeley campus opened in March 2008. Designed by Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, the building occupies a site on the north edge of the Memorial Glade that is part of the campus’s landmarked Classical Core. Yet, while honoring its context, the architects have created a building that has more in common with the tenets of Modernism than those of Classicism.

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