Often soulless, always competent and usually white, Richard Meier's buildings certainly have a style all their own. One of 1972's "New York Five," a group of architects including John Hejduk, Michael Graves, Peter Eisenman and Charles Gwathmey, Meier has moved on to design such icons as the monstrous Getty Center in California, the High Museum in Atlanta and the Church for the Year 2000 in Rome.

Getty Center
(1998) Los Angeles, California, United States

A billion dollar (US) high profile art museum complex just off the 405, the Getty Center looks as if it took every minute of those ten years it took to design and build it. Every visit can still reveal something new, something previously unseen. Sometimes even the garden doesn't seem that bad. It's much more than the sum of its many, many parts.

Click here for the Getty's site. Parking reservations are no longer required, but parking is still always an issue

Perry Street Residential Towers
(2002) New York City, United States

Richard Meier's high profile (and damn expensive) residential buildings straddle Perry Street on the West Side Highway, towering over one of the nicest sections (so far) of the Hudson River Park.

High Museum of Art
(1994) Atlanta, Georgia, United States

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta isn't the only all white art museum organized around a central vertical circulation ramp, but it is the only one in Atlanta. The collection is all over the map, from the 1300s through contemporay and modern folk art.

Click here to visit the High, browse its collection and learn about its future

ArBITAT FutureWatch

The High Museum is getting some company, a new village of the arts designed by Renzo Piano. Follow its progress at ArBITAT FutureWatch... (go to ArBITAT FutureWatch)