Lever House | SOM
by Ezra Stoller
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this house is so ME!
1934 Sten House | Architect: Richard Neutra | Santa Monica, CA
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1952 J.S. Dorton Arena | Architect: Matthew Nowicki | North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, North Carolina
Nowicki called his 7,610-seat multi-purpose arena the Paraboleum. Unfortunately, he died in a plane crash before the actual construction and local architect William Henley Dietrick took over until it’s completion.
Its design features a steel cable supported saddle-shaped roof in tension, held up by parabolic concrete arches in compression. The arches cross about 20 feet above ground level and continue underground, where the ends of the arches are held together by more steel cables in tension. The outer walls of the arena support next to no weight at all. Incorporating an unusual elliptical design by Matthew Nowicki, of the North Carolina State University Department of Architecture, the arena was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973. Originally named the “State Fair Arena”, it was dedicated to Dr. J. S. Dorton, former North Carolina State Fair manager, in 1961. - wiki
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The Aluminaire House was designed as a case study by architects A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey in 1931 for the New York Architectural League Show at the Museum of Modern Art. The three-story house, made of donated materials and built in ten days, was the first all-metal house in the United States.
After the show the house was sold to architect Wallace K. Harrison, who disassembled it and moved it to his Long Island estate, where it became the core of an extensive complex. By 1940 the so-called “Tin House” was once again disassembled and moved to another portion of the property, where it became a guest house.
The property was subdivided by new buyers in the 1980s who planned to demolish the Aluminaire House, but agreed to donate the house to the New York Institute of Technology, which reassembled the house on the school’s Central Islip campus. The property is to be transferred to a trust dedicated to its maintenance.
Pereda Pérez Arquitectos - Family house, Villarcayo 2013. Via HIC, photos (C) Pedro Pegenaute.
