Maryland Residence [SEP] architect
Maryland Residence
The Maryland Residence is a private home in Bethesda, Maryland, United States, designed by César Pelli. Completed in 1989, it is one of the few houses by an architect known mainly for his large commercial projects. It takes the form of five small pavilions centrally connected. Pelli has described it as a complex.
Pelli began designing the house in 1985 for a client with a family of four. Construction began on the house in 1987 after an existing Colonial Revival home on the lot was demolished.
of architect Sep Ruf was built in the spacious park as a semi-official residence for the Chancellors.
Palais Schaumburg became home to the federal ministry for environment, conservation as well as reactor safety ("Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit") when it was formed in 1986. After the reunification of Germany in 1990, five "Federal Ministers for Special Affairs" kept offices in the palais.
The palais was used at the signing of the treaty about the creation of a currency, economy and social union