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architects

AC Martin Partners

Allied Works Architecture

Antoine Predock

Bldg.collective

Clutch Design Studio

Daniel Libeskind

David Chipperfield

DeBartolo Architects

Diller Scofido + Renfro

Dynia Architects

E2A Architecture

Foster + Partners

Morphosis Architects

Santiago Calatrava

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Thomas Phifer & Partners

Will Bruder Architects

Yardani Studio of CannonDesign

interior designers

Matter Interiors

Pembrooke & Ives

Second Nature Interiors

Studio D Design

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Architectural Photography & Stories

Last Friday architect César Pelli died at the age of 92. Pelli designed ionic buildings all over the world. He was known for his use of glass, his skyline defining towers, many of which held the tallest in the world records at one point like the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, which held the record from 1998 - 2004. • I have not formally photographed any of Pelli’s buildings, not even the Rockefeller Center inspired Wells Fargo building in my hometown of Minneapolis, which is one of my all time favorite designs of his, but I did capture a few frames of the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles a couple years a go while in town working on an unrelated project. The PDC is a massive complex that remains controversial to this day for its scale relative to its residential neighbors and its bright colored glass. • The Pacific Design Center is made up of three glass buildings: a massive blue building known as the Blue Whale, a green one and finally the red glass building pictured here which was completed 38 years following the first building. Pelli worked on the Pacific Design Center for 40 years. He once said, I have worked on this my whole life. It has become a very special baby to me.” • I don’t know much about Pelli beyond what I have read recently, but I am greatly inspired by his life and work. I look forward to photographing and experiencing more of his buildings around the world. JC #cesarpelli #pacificdesigncenter #losangelesarchitecture #jcbuckphotography #redarchitecture

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