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Googleplex, Mountain View: Designing Interior Spaces at an Urban Scale

Googleplex was the product of a distinct tension (and ultimately a collaboration) between architect and client. What is most extraordinary was the initiative to make the interior spaces of the headquarters feel like a town.
ArchitectureDetroit

Inside the United Artists Theater, Detroit

The United Artists Theatre was designed by Charles Howard Crane and opened in 1928. The interior of the theater was sumptuously decorated in Spanish Gothic style, with intricate ornamentation, a large chandelier, a grand staircase and a two-story circular lobby.
ArchitectureSydney

Convict City: Tracing Sydney’s Penal Past

Fragments of this past scattered throughout the city are reminders of the convict roots of a new nation. Once a continent-sized prison, it's today what many people think of, thanks to its civil liberties and live-and-let-live social attitudes-one of the most free places on earth.