News from Gothamist - 03/10/2010
New Architects For Atlantic Yards?
from threecee's flickr After firing famed architect Frank Gehry in an effort to cut costs, the developer of the controversial Atlantic Yards project is in talks with the man who designed the Freedom Tower . Architect David Childs told the Brooklyn Paper that Atlantic Yards builder Bruce Ratner asked him to give plans for the proposed basketball arena a "once over," and also discussed hiring him ...
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News from Crain's New York Business - 03/10/2010
Groundbreaking at Atlantic Yards comes years late
After more than six years of upheaval, lawsuits and false-starts, progress will finally be made at the sprawling Atlantic Yards site on the edge of downtown Brooklyn. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Barclays Center, the future home of the Nets basketball team, is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. Among those scheduled to attend are Gov. David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Brooklyn ...
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News from New York Post - 03/10/2010
'Childs' play: Bruce may be bringing in top architects to work on Yards
Developer Bruce Ratner appears to be bringing in an all-star team to Atlantic Yards — and we’re not talking about his pathetic Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets.Legendary architect David Childs — the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill emeritus who was the lead designer of the so-called Freedom Tower at the World Trade...
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News from Gothamist - 03/09/2010
Interior Of Planned Brooklyn Nets Arena Revealed
Two days before the official ground-breaking for the long-delayed Atlantic Yards megaproject , developer Bruce Ratner and the New Jersey Nets unveiled renderings of the interior of their planned Brooklyn basketball arena. After scrapping an original design by Frank Gehry over financial concerns and nixing a second design by the firm Ellerbe Becket after it was derided for being too ...
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News from The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - 03/09/2010
Neighbors drop lawsuit against Wiesenthal Center
A group of neighbors has agreed to drop its lawsuit against the expansion of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. In return, the center will pay Homeowners Opposed to Museum Expansion $150,000 to cover legal fees and to purchase noise-monitoring equipment.
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News from British Vogue - 03/09/2010
Related Features
THE Sixties might have a strong showing in some of the key collections of this season so far - but Nicole Farhi says it is the Nineties that she was reminiscing about when designing her autumn/winter 2010-11 collection.
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News from The Biloxi Sun Herald - 03/09/2010
Panama, Coast havegreat deal in common
GULFPORT — Similarities between Panama and the Mississippi Gulf Coast are creating connections between the two leading up to the expansion of the Panama Canal and the Port of Gulfport.
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News from The Biloxi Sun Herald - 03/09/2010
Panama, Coast have great deal in common
GULFPORT — Similarities between Panama and the Mississippi Gulf Coast are creating connections between the two leading up to the expansion of the Panama Canal and the Port of Gulfport.
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News from Chicago Sun-Times - 03/08/2010
Architect who designed Willis Tower, John Hancock dies
Bruce Graham left his mark on the Chicago skyline more than any other architect.During more than three decades at the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Graham personified its leadership in supertall buildings. He designed Chicago's best known skyscrapers, Willis Tower and the John Hancock Center, and provided finishing work for the Inland Steel Building, a landmark of modernism.Mr ...
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News from CBS 2 Chicago - 03/08/2010
Architect Of Willis, Hancock Towers Dies
The architect who designed Chicago's two most iconic skyscrapers -- the Willis Tower and the John Hancock Center -- has died at age 84.
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News from ABC 7 Chicago - 03/08/2010
Architect of 2 iconic Chicago skyscrapers dies
Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed Chicago's two most iconic skyscrapers, including the formerly named Sears Tower, has died at age 84, according to a spokesman.
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News from The Scotsman - 03/08/2010
Architect stars compete for V&A project
MORE than 120 architects from around the world are to compete to design the iconic outpost of the world-famous Victoria & Albert Museum, planned for a promontory jutting o
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News from New York Post - 03/08/2010
New Brooklyn arena's interior design revealed
The Nets should finally have a true home-court advantage when they flee New Jersey for Brooklyn in 2012 as the team’s new $1 billion digs feature enough lower-level seating to keeps fans close to the action. With the groundbreaking for the long-anticipated Barclays Center set for Thursday, the Nets...
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News from Local 12 Cincinnati - 03/08/2010
University of Cincinnati Campus Named Among World's Most Beautiful
Forbes Magazine asked architects and campus designers for opinions
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News from Gay City News - 03/07/2010
Rambling Rose: New beginnings
September is all about new beginnings in art and fashion. While several galleries in Chelsea have closed permanently this summer (for example, Charlie Cowles, and he will be missed), there are more than enough spaces to satisfy the most voracious art lover.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/07/2010
Painted House
Suburbia is the place people love to mock. It is the place whence writers and artists used to escape, so that they could make a career scouring its pettiness and restrictions. It is reviled by planners and architects.
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News from Boston Globe - 03/06/2010
Where ideas can flow
CAMBRIDGE - It took more than 10 years, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s famed Media Lab has finally moved into its new digs.
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News from Playbill - 03/05/2010
PHOTO CALL: Signature Theatre Company's Annual Gala
Signature Theatre Company celebrated both the ongoing construction of its new home and the presentation of The Signature Playwrights Award at its annual gala on March 1.
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News from New York Daily News - 03/04/2010
The Closer : Charity auction with hot Robert Pattinson pics, inside the Boom Boom Room and more
Ever wonder where world-class product and interior designer Karim Rashid buys his famous pink suits? We do. Lately, he's getting fitted at My Suit, a suit maker with two New York City stores that has managed to streamline the custom-tailoring process to.
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News from Austinist - 03/04/2010
Visual Acoustics Returns to Austin
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman March 5-11 Regal Arbor Cinema ( 9828 Great Hills Trail ) Various Times, $7 matinee / $9.50 evening [ info ] | [ tickets ] This Friday, Eric Bricker’s Visual Acoustics —one of our favorite films from AFF ’08, and a doc we strongly recommend seeing—will return to Austin for a weeklong run at the Regal Arbor. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman , Visual ...
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