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Architectural fragment

Architectural fragment

Design & Architecture

An object formerly part of a built structure, intended to be part of a built structure, or representing a structural element of a building.

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Architectural block from the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

Architectural block from the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

Frank Lloyd Wright

1913–1923

Facade Panel from the Ricola Europe Factory and Storage Building, Mulhouse-Brunnstatt, France

Facade Panel from the Ricola Europe Factory and Storage B...

Jacques Herzog

1992-93

Spandrel from Gage Building, Chicago, Illinois

Spandrel from Gage Building, Chicago, Illinois

Louis Sullivan

1898-99

Grille from the Casa Milá (La Pedrera), Barcelona, Spain

Grille from the Casa Milá (La Pedrera), Barcelona, Spain

Antoni Gaudí

1906–1912

Façade Panels from Best Products Showroom, Langhorne, Pennsylvania

Façade Panels from Best Products Showroom, Langhorne, Pen...

Robert Venturi

1973-79

Mycelium Brick

Mycelium Brick

The Living

2014

Façade from the United Nations Secretariat Building, New York, New York

Façade from the United Nations Secretariat Building, New ...

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

1950

Mock-up for the facade of the Jinhua Ceramic Pavilion, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China

Mock-up for the facade of the Jinhua Ceramic Pavilion, Ji...

Wang Shu

2006

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Episode 4: The Block

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Ep...

Bernard Tschumi

1980-81

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Episode 4: The Block

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Ep...

Bernard Tschumi

1980-81

Sixth Street House project, Santa Monica, CA (Isometrics and plan)

Sixth Street House project, Santa Monica, CA (Isometrics ...

Thom Mayne

1990

Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Planetary/Water Strip)

Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Planetary/Wat...

Zaha Hadid

1982-83

Parc de la Villette, Paris, France (Follies and Galleries, isometrics)

Parc de la Villette, Paris, France (Follies and Galleries...

Bernard Tschumi

1986

Urban Passage Project, Axonometric

Urban Passage Project, Axonometric

Massimo Scolari

1974

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Episode 4: The Block

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Ep...

Bernard Tschumi

1980-81

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Episode 1: The Park

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Ep...

Bernard Tschumi

1976-77

Micromegas Project, Time Sections

Micromegas Project, Time Sections

Daniel Libeskind

1979

Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Exercise Strip)

Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Exercise Strip)

Zaha Hadid

1982-83

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Episode 1: The Park

The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Ep...

Bernard Tschumi

1976-77

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, View of the theater arch from below

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, View of the ...

James Stirling

1978

Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Car Park)

Parc de la Villette Project, Paris, France (Car Park)

Zaha Hadid

1982-83

Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, National Assembly Building: plan and sketches

Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla...

Louis I. Kahn

1963

Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena, Italy, Elevation study

Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena, Italy, Elevation study

Aldo Rossi

1971

German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain, Horizontal column section

German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spa...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1929

Sixth Street House project, Santa Monica, California, Sixth Street: Figure 6

Sixth Street House project, Santa Monica, California, Six...

Thom Mayne

1987