The Voya Financial building (also known historically as the Northwestern National Life Insurance Building) is a six‑story office structure located at 20 Washington Avenue South in downtown Minneapolis. It was designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki and…
After initially forming in 2011 the architecture firm NOA moved between a hand full of small offices in Bolzano Italy. Over the next 13 years their growth would continue eventually culminating in the renovation of what has now become the New NOA…
The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is a large and expansive commercial structure. Externally it is primarily grey in color with many large reflective windows that can look blue due to the sky. It is rectangular in shape with four smaller…
The layout of the structure is seemingly quadratic in its form. Its seemingly rectangular base connects to a smaller square, looking from the front angle of the bank. The structure is a three-level building, with an additional raised basement level.…
A massive convention center along Tokyo Bay. The convention center is made up of three main buildings, with the main tower being the center of attention, and what most people refer to when talking about this site. The main tower is a 58metre tall…
The chieftain’s house at Lofotr Viking Museum is an overpowering recreation of Viking Age longhouses. Like many longhouses, both of Viking communities and around the world, it takes the shape of an oval with a convex roof, and is constructed…
Created during the medieval ages this grand cathedral's original architects desire to create a grand sculpture to house the Reliquary of the Three Kings. While left incomplete until centuries further the cathedral would endure the times and…
Angkor Wat is a very large temple complex that is primarily square in shape. Currently the stone walls are white with brown stains caused by weathering. The brown color tends to be more apparent on the roofs of the structure. The temple itself is…
The structure is considerably sound with a firm rectangular form, as it hails as one of the last structures to represent the German Colonial church structure. It includes two levels, two chimneys, and a belfry at the top. While it does feature a…
The layout of the Ely Cathedral is that of a cross, with two large towers protruding into the sky at the cross's intersection and at its feet. The cathedral is about 21 stories tall, and the length of one and a half football fields. The main entrance…