The idea that an architect could design a city from scratch, in a top-down way, is relatively new.
Whitehall Palace - to replace the earlier complex of the same name - was the dream of Inigo Jones, the first English architect to design in the Classical style.
"But it was when he visited Genoa and he actually saw the kind of properties that merchants were living in and he thought, I am the richest man in Wales I need something better than a ramshackle of pile, and when he was in Rome he commissioned another architect to design, what is in effect, a palace of culture, " Mr Gammond said.
In most cases, you probably won't need a brand-name architect or interior design firm to build out your center.
We hired my architect cousin to design it, and with lots of our input, the house was built over two years.
Frank Alexander, an event designer who lives in Manhattan, hired architect Paul Masi to design his Southampton, N.
This four-storey hotel has 29 rooms and each individually themed floor is the creation of local leading design and architect firms.
Michael Pawlyn, a British architect specializing in sustainable design and founding member of the project, says bringing together clusters of synergistic technologies creates a new paradigm.
This looks a tall order, especially since Will Alsop, the architect responsible for the design, likened the planned outcome to the view of a walled Tuscan hill town.
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Relative newcomer Prada, on the other hand, is going public: The company's art arm, the Fondazione Prada, has enlisted architect Rem Koolhaas to design a new contemporary art museum on an industrial site south of Milan.
He also enlisted Japanese architect Tadao Ando to design a 558-person theater, named Teatro Armani, in which to stage his men's and women's fashion shows, and created Armani Casa, a furniture business that adapts the designer's sleek, minimalist lines to sofas, tables and other interior designs.
The original design was chosen in 1927 by an architect - Sir Reginald Blomfield - who wanted a design closer to the true sense of a pylon - an Egyptian gateway to the sun.
In fact there are many ways to embody forces in a design, and architect and engineer proceeded component by component to achieve elegance.
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She and her husband, who is CEO of health-insurance firm Connected Health, worked with architect Mr. Justiss to design a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom compound with three courtyards and two terraces.
In 1956, TWA commissioned Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and industrial designer, to design its flight center at Idlewild (renamed JFK in 1963).
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Meanwhile, ever the developer, he met with architect Frank Gehry last month to design a visitor center and inn for the Kentuck Knob property.
I'm not expert enough to know the reasons why, but architect Lord Foster's Wembley design has helped to provide an outdoor venue where the effect as Michael's vocals bounced around the stadium was rather like that of being in a modern surround-sound cinema.
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Aged just 18, he commissioned the leading architect at the time Robert Adam to design a house.
The architect created a tree house-like design, where two floors of living space floated above ground, anchored by a steel support.
Categories of the Saltire Society Housing Design Awards were won by architect practices on Skye and in Perthshire and Aberdeen last year.
The building is currently earmarked for expansion based on a design by Pritzker award-winning architect Rafael Moneo.
The cornerstone was laid in 1792 and a competition design submitted by Irish-born architect James Hoban was chosen.
Gutwein challenged the design team which includes architects, lighting designers, environmental design, and more (landscape architect David Rubin is also part of the team), to reinvent the character of the new hospital to be the most successful of its type.
Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch, has flirted with the idea of another land-reclamation project, inviting bids and briefly giving his support in 2010 to a design by Daniel Libeskind, the architect who drew up the master plan for the reconstruction of New York's World Trade Center.
Run by former architect NuNu, this restaurant is as much about design as food.
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The design company of Martin Hawtree, the architect for Trump's much-vaunted championship course at Menie in northern Scotland, was also among the disappointed bidders.
Trained as an architect, Sara has found she is allowed to design buildings, but supervising her projects on site can be difficult, and sometimes it's forbidden.
This is chiefly the design of Michael Arad, a young architect whose entry was chosen, in 2004, from among fifty-two hundred entries, the largest such contest in history.
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