News from The Huffington Post - 02/19/2010
Bruce Clark: Canadian Museum for Human Rights: An Unfolding Story of Swiftian Irony
Whether or not the hypocrisies surrounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights are ominous remains unclear. Given Canada's human rights record, it's difficult not to see this story as Swiftian irony.
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News from The Winnipeg Sun via Yahoo! Canada News - 02/02/2010
Avant-garde huts hit ice
No, spaceships have not crash-landed on the frozen Assiniboine River.
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News from Toronto Sun - 01/30/2010
High hopes for human rights museum
Canada’s shrine to human rights will be thought-provoking, troubling, inspiring and, its planners suggest, unlike any other museum in the country.
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News from CNews - 01/16/2010
Human rights museum takes shape
Canada's new beacon to human rights is taking shape, and the project at The Forks appears as big as the museum's more than $300-million price tag.
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News from El Paso Times - 01/04/2010
Contractor's fines mount as courthouse nears completion past scheduled date
EL PASO -- The new federal courthouse Downtown -- which will be named after the late El Paso judge and civil rights leader Albert Armendariz Sr. -- may be completed next month, officials said. U.S. District Court Senior Judge David Briones estimates that the nine-floor, 239,500 square-foot building is about 94 percent complete.
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News from Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - 01/03/2010
Decade in review
The first decade of the new millennium brought the Coles County area the prospect of a futuristic coal plant, the first murder case that sent someone to death row after widespread commutations and the region’s share of soldiers serving overseas.
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News from Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - 01/02/2010
A decade to remember
The first decade of the new millennium brought the Coles County area the prospect of a futuristic coal plant, the first murder case that sent someone to death row after widespread commutations and the region’s share of soldiers serving overseas.
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News from Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - 01/01/2010
A decade to remember
The first decade of the new millennium brought the Coles County area the prospect of a futuristic coal plant, the first murder case that sent someone to death row after widespread commutations and the region’s share of soldiers serving overseas.
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News from Tacoma Daily Index - 10/30/2009
TAM selects Seattle firm for Pacific Avenue plaza redesign
Tacoma Art Museum has selected the team of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects and Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture to develop plans to redesign the museum's entrance on Pacific Avenue.
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News from Tacoma Daily Index - 10/30/2009
TAM selects Seattle firms for Pacific Avenue plaza redesign
Tacoma Art Museum has selected the team of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects and Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture to develop plans to redesign the museum's entrance on Pacific Avenue.
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News from El Paso Times - 10/14/2009
Construction delays pile up $636K in fines for contractor
EL PASO -- The Alabama construction company that is building the new federal courthouse has accumulated $636,000 in fines because the project is almost a year behind schedule, federal records show.
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Blog from Laughing Orca Ranch - 09/05/2009
Sunday Stills ~ Rule of Thirds
This week’s Sunday Stills Challenge is called the ‘Rule of Thirds’.The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections. It is believed that by aligning a subject with these points it creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than by simply centering the subject.Here are my efforts:#1(My trio posing under the Route 66 bridge on the Bosque Bike Trail)#2(My kidlets posing ‘in thirds’ at the New Mexico State Fairgrounds.
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News from Architectural Record - 08/31/2009
Winners of AIA Education Facility Awards Announced
Ample daylight, natural ventilation, and a connection to the landscape are among the features found in educational facilities recognized this month by the American Institute of Architects.
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News from The Times and Democrat - 08/27/2009
Plans discussed for S.C. black history museum
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Nearly a decade after the project was proposed, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., architects and designers are discussing how a building to house a planned International African American Museum might look.
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News from The Post and Courier - 08/27/2009
Design efforts begin in earnest
The International African American Museum planned for Charleston doesn't have a price tag or a timetable for construction, but it does have a site and an award-winning design team that's beginning work in earnest this week.
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News from Newsday - 08/26/2009
Plans discussed for SC black history museum
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Nearly a decade after the project was proposed, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., architects and designers are discussing how a building to house a planned International African American Museum might look. The $69 million museum, first proposed in 2000, is planned for a site near the South Carolina Aquarium on the edge of the historic district in this city where the ...
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News from WYFF 4 Greenville - 08/26/2009
Plans Take Shape For SC Black History Museum
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Architects and designers are gathering in South Carolina to discuss ideas for the planned International African American Museum.
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News from WIS News 10 Columbia - 08/26/2009
Plans discussed for black history museum
Architects and designers are gathering in South Carolina to discuss ideas for the planned International African American Museum.
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News from Live 5 News Charleston - 08/26/2009
Live 5 News, Weather Sports, and Traffic for Charleston, SC-Plans discussed for SC black history museum
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Architects and designers are gathering in South Carolina to discuss ideas for the planned International African American Museum.
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Blog from A Daily Dose of Architecture - 08/19/2009
Stories in Stone
This post is stop number three on the " Virtual Book Tour " for David B. Williams 's latest book, Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology . Below is my brief description of the book, followed by some commentary from Williams on some contemporary buildings in stone. Check out Clastic Detritus's book review and interview with Williams for stops one and two. Stories in Stone links the natural and the man-made by tracing building stones used in various parts of the United States to their origin in the earth's crust.
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