Hearst tower, new york, by Foster.

Then, almost everywhere in Europe.

Add, the British Museum and the Louvre.

Then, the brand new Tate Modern expansion by Herzog & de Meroun.

there's some sort of glassy thing in paris which completely overtook the land occupied by a former building, except for the portion (at least one level off the ground) in which a stubborn woman lived...Someone mentioned it today in studio; anyone know the name?

there's always the metabolist/megastructure connection, or more recently tschumi's idea for a second urban layer hovering above an industrial disctrict in beijing.

there's an example on the canal/street approach to the rotterdam train station, about a block away. wild looking, but i don't know anything about it.

Skirkanich Hall by TWBTA in Philadelphia on the PENN campus. Inserted between two historic buildings. Image in construction photos.

misterTT: you're thinking of the maison de verre, by pierre chareau.

The Yawkley Center at Mass General Hospital by Cambridge Seven incorporates the Charles Street Jail, "converting it into a hotel" and "[tearing] down part of its eastern wing, then [rebuilding] two of its bays as part of the new hospital building". If you have access to Arch. Record, it's in the June 2005 issue. There are also axo views of it (in various stages of completion), here.

The Charles St Jail is the cruciform building near the top.

A between-the-wars prototype for such shenanigans would be Sir Herbert Baker's evisceration of Soane's Bank of England...

the new lions stadium in detroit used a warehouse for it's penthouses/etc..... not bad actually.......

the tigers stadium...thats another story

Rome, Italy

Museum of the Ara Pacis (completed in 2006)

Ara Pacis (completed in 9 BC)

Architect: Richard Meier



You can write a very long paper on this. :)

The Ara Pacis by Meier is a punch in a stomanche.
It's the ugliest buidlings Meier has ever built.

Fuller Lofts by Pugh+Scarpa. Just beginning construction in downtown LA.

Check their webpage under "mutlifamily housing".

Yikes Matteo, no love for it? My family is from Sicily and they hate it as well, but again its there tradition to hate anything thats modern :)

I was in Rome for a month over the summer. I lived right down the street from Campo de Fiore on top of Pompey's Complex. I know where you are coming from, locals hate. Do you currently live in Rome? I thought it was beautifully set. Within a perspective view you have 2000 years worth of architecture, from Augustus, Fascisim, and Meier, right in front of you. There is a whole political thing behind this that I read up on and did a argument on but honestly it grew on me. Yes the traventine walls are hollow and echo when you knock on them but its how he plays with the local materials that connected back to the city. I still have mix feelings on it, and sometimes ponder what would be there if it was an actual competition rather than giving Meier the commision. It grew on me and I think over time so will the people of Rome.

sibelious concert hall, finland; soldier field, chicago; the University of Cincinnati's TUC building by Gwathmey Seigel (pretty awful), the Villard Houses, NYC; SOM's Moynihan Station project, the Egyptian Wing at the MET. DC's Union Station; Monterey Bay Acquarium; St. Louis Union Station

There is also a Zumthor project in Chur, Switzerland that is built completely over some Roman ruins. If you go to the history museum there across town, they give u the keys for it.

camden yards, baltimore.