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The Portland Building in Portland, Oregon in 1982. Graves began his career in 1962 as a professor of architecture at Princeton University, where he taught for nearly four decades and later helped to establish the Michael Graves College at Kean University in Union Township, New Jersey, and established his own architectural firm in 1964 at Princeton, New Jersey.
Building and structures designed by American architect Michael Graves Pages in category "Michael Graves buildings" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
But within that Cubist grill are set massive volumes--sheer gray wall planes, an undulating terra cotta facade--and relatively small expanses of glass, all of which are more characteristic of his current projects. This is an early Michael Graves building with a later Michael Graves building trapped inside it, fighting to emerge.
Michael Graves, who has designed hundreds of buildings, but is best known for designing Target products, made his architectural House of the Day: Michael Graves Hit the Target Here Skip to main ...
The distinctive look of Michael Graves' Portland Building, with its use of a variety of surface materials and colors, small windows, and inclusion of prominent decorative flourishes, was in stark contrast to the architectural style most commonly used for large office buildings at the time, [8] and made the building an icon of postmodern architecture.
Michael Graves (1934–2015) designed two of the most prominent buildings in the postmodern style, the Portland Building and the Denver Public Library. He later followed up his landmark buildings by designing large, low-cost retail stores for chains such as Target and J.C. Penney in the United States, which had a major influence on the design ...
Ten Peachtree Place is a high-rise class A office building in midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The building was designed by Michael Graves and completed in 1989. It currently serves as the headquarters for Southern Company Gas. The building is notable for its 30 ft (9.1 m) high arch and red granite exterior that contrasts with the building's dark windows.
The Indianapolis Art Center's 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2) building was designed by Indiana-born architect Michael Graves. [9] [10] Graves, a former high school classmate of director Joyce Sommers, was handpicked by Center leaders. He was given complete creative control over the project, $6 million at the time of original construction.