News from Charleston City Paper - 04/28/2010
All that's missing from Charleston's new African American Museum are the funds
The International African American Museum is big and ambitious. It will radically change the area around Liberty Square. It will be filled with creatively designed, accessible exhibits. The only thing not in place yet is the cash — $80 million of it. by Nick Smith The International African American Museum is big and ambitious. It will radically change the area around Liberty Square. It will be ...
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News from Charleston City Paper - 04/28/2010
All that's missing from Charleston's new museum are the funds
The International African American Museum is big and ambitious. It will radically change the area around Liberty Square. It will be filled with creatively designed, accessible exhibits. The only thing not in place yet is the cash — $80 million of it. by Nick Smith The International African American Museum is big and ambitious. It will radically change the area around Liberty Square. It will be ...
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News from Interior Design - 03/30/2010
Truly Illuminating
No need to convince Jim Olson of the merits of institutional design, museums in particular. The studio now known as Olson Kundig Architects, recipient of the AIA’s 2009 Architecture Firm Award, has long been deeply immersed in the arts.
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News from California Watch - 03/23/2010
Iconic Cal Poly Pomona building poses earthquake hazard
Erica Perez In our story about seismically hazardous buildings on public university campuses, we detailed a number of the nearly 180 occupied structures on the list, including liberal arts buildings at Cal State Long Beach and Cal State East Bay's Warren Hall. Cal Poly Pomona's CLA building Most of the buildings that engineers have judged risky in a big quake were constructed more than 40 years ...
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News from California Watch - 03/16/2010
Many private colleges do business with trustee-affiliated companies
Erica Perez What happens when university trustees also do business with the university? Led by reporter Paul Fain, the Chronicle of Higher Education revealed in an investigation this week that one of four private colleges has "financial ties with trustee-affiliated companies." Trustees bear responsibility for making decisions in the best interest of the university. Because of that spending power ...
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News from California Watch - 03/16/2010
Are California politicians overlooking 'elephant in the room' when deriding Anthem?
Christina Jewett California politicians lined up to take their shots at Anthem Blue Cross over its plan to boost rate increases by 39 percent in recent weeks. But a prominent voice (and one who is not running for office) emerged this week questioning whether the pitchfork-pumping is directed at the only culprit of health care cost increases. Quickly, a recap on politician's positions on ...
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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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