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AD Classics: Boston City Hall / Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles

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Town & City Hall
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Boston, United States
  • Architects: Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  1968
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  V2 Lighting Group

AD Classics: National Assembly Building of Bangladesh / Louis Kahn

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Modernist architecture is traditionally understood to be utilitarian, sleek, and most of all without context, such that it can be placed in any context and still stay true to aesthetic principles and its functional requirements. However, Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Building of Bangladesh in Dhaka is an extraordinary example of modern architecture being transcribed as a part of Bangali vernacular architecture. The National Assembly building, completed in 1982, stands as one of Kahn’s most prominent works, but also as a symbolic monument to the government of Bangladesh.

A New Infrastructure, Los Angeles

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Los Angeles is often portrayed as the example of the car-friendly city. The traditional image of the town is an endless pattern of single family dwellings, interconnected by traffic-clogged freeways, where transit is undeveloped and the air is choked with smog.

However, Los Angeles is changing. The city’s Transport Authority has planned in the last years a series of measures aiming to improve quality of life through improving transit and walking and providing alternative to car commuting.