architecture & design

See the Futuristic Architecture of Brazil's Past

By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk

See Eero Saarinen's Career in Photos

By Eliza Berman

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The Face of Freedom: LIFE Portraits of the Statue of Liberty

On the anniversary of the day the Statue of Liberty was dedicated (Oct. 28, 1886), here are photos of Lady Liberty as captured by LIFE photographers through the years.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Men Who Designed the United Nations: Portrait of Impossible Dreamers

The UN selected a group of architects and engineers -- at once renowned and avant-garde -- from all over the world to collaborate, in the spirit of post-war unity, on the headquarters' design.

By Christopher A. Casey

LIFE in a Great City: Chicago

Chicagoist editor-in-chief Chuck Sudo shares his thoughts on the town he loves: the Windy City, that toddling town, sweet home Chicago. (Pictured: Stunt man Jack Wylie soars over the Chicago River, 1958.)

By Ben Cosgrove

Vintage Vegas: Scenes From a Desert Boomtown

Photos of the town in the mid-1950s -- when the high-stakes mecca was in the midst of a building boom that would redefine it forever.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Eiffel Tower at 125: A Paris Landmark Captured in a Classic Photo

On the 125th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower's public opening, LIFE celebrates Dmitri Kessel's classic 1948 portrait of the tower seen on a foggy winter's day.

By Liz Ronk

'The World of Tomorrow': Scenes From the 1939 New York World's Fair

Seventy-five years ago, on April 30, 1939, the colossal New York World's Fair opened in what is now Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in the borough of Queens.

By Ben Cosgrove

In Praise of a Whimsical, Solar-Powered 'Do-Nothing Machine'

Brightly colored and emphatically impractical, Charles and Ray Eames' Do-Nothing Machine was exactly the sort of endeavor that sends the more businesslike and pragmatic among us into conniptions.

By Ben Cosgrove

Lost City: Portraits of New York Before 9/11 Changed Everything

George Forss' pre-9/11 photographs of New York City are both a celebration of, and an elegy for, a lost world.

By Liz Ronk

Orange Crush: LIFE With the Golden Gate Bridge

Classic photos of the grand, audacious structure that connects the city of San Francisco with the Marin Headlands to the north.

By Ben Cosgrove

Buckminster Fuller Forever: Salute to an American Visionary

Boing Boing co-founder David Pescovitz pays tribute to the American inventor, architect and engineer Bucky Fuller, and celebrates "the importance of unintended consequences."

By Liz Ronk

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Natural

On the anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum opening to the public for the first time in 1959, LIFE features photos of Frank Lloyd Wright and celebrates some of his signature creations.

By Ben Cosgrove

Lower Manhattan's Lost Anchors: Remembering the Twin Towers

On the anniversary of 9/11, LIFE.com recalls -- through a classic Alfred Eisenstaedt photo -- the enormous, glass-and-steel towers that anchored Lower Manhattan for three decades.

By Ben Cosgrove

Charles and Ray Eames: Simply Genius

In the centennial of Ray Eames's birth, LIFE offers a series of pictures made in 1950 at the now-legendary Eames House.

By Ben Cosgrove

Penn Station, 1963: Walker Evans' Portraits of a Doomed American Treasure

On the anniversary of the original Penn Station's 1910 opening, LIFE.com offers a number photos — many of which never ran in LIFE — shot by Walker Evans for a 1963 feature on America's vanishing architectural treasures.

By Liz Ronk

LIFE Goes to the Louvre, 1953

LIFE.com presents a selection of pictures from 1953 by Dmitri Kessel -- photos of what is still arguably, all these years later, the world's greatest museum: the wonderful, storied, glorious Louvre.

By Ben Cosgrove

Colossal: LIFE at the Birth of the Pentagon

LIFE.com presents a series photos -- most of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- of the iconic, colossal Pentagon under construction more than seven decades ago.

By Ben Cosgrove
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