News from U.S. Department of State - 05/26/2010
Press Releases: New London Embassy Design Competition Exhibit Officially Opens
New London Embassy Design Competition Exhibit Officially Opens Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC May 26, 2010 The New London Embassy design competition exhibit officially opened today at the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C. The exhibit celebrates the completion of the design competition to select the architect for the New London Embassy for the United ...
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News from New Orleans Times-Picayune - 05/22/2010
'Make It Right' gets real as newest Brad Pitt houses shift toward affordability
From prototype to practical, high-design homes in the Lower 9th Ward get form-follows-budget modifications
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News from New Orleans Times-Picayune - 05/22/2010
New 'Make It Right' house design features an open-air, top-floor covered deck
It's one of the most unusual of the residential gems in Brad Pitt's Lower 9th Ward development.
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News from Creative Loafing Tampa - 05/21/2010
TMA's new show, like the museum itself, poses some provocative questions
By Megan Voeller Last week, I was walking through the newly redesigned Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in downtown Tampa when a friend stopped me in my tracks. Pointing to a crowded playground in front of the Tampa Museum of Art, he said, "Those kids are going to grow up expecting this." By "this" he meant not only the park but, more generally, a downtown with institutions and amenities befitting a ...
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News from New York Times - 05/05/2010
Bold Brass and Glass, and the World Inside on Display
The New School’s new University Center on Fifth Avenue is intended to encourage student interaction, but may be a bit much for some in the Village.
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News from New York Times - 05/04/2010
Bold Brass and Glass, and the World Inside on Display
The New School’s new University Center on Fifth Avenue is intended to encourage student interaction, but may be a bit much for some in the Village.
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News from GOOD - 04/15/2010
Community by Design
Building homes for the neighborhoods that need them most Raised on the wholesome interactions on Sesame Street , many Americans still dream of neighborhoods where residents shoot the breeze on stoops, window boxes overflow with marigolds and violets, and everyone shops at the local grocery store. But while it’s easy to create strong communities on TV, a quick tour through America’s neighborhoods ...
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News from Art Daily - 04/09/2010
Max Protetch Gallery Announces Change in Leadership
Max Protetch outside the gallery. Photo: Jenny Riffle. Courtesy: Max Portetch Gallery. NEW YORK, NY.- Today Max Protetch Gallery announced that ownership of the Gallery has been transferred to Edwin Meulensteen, formerly of Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
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News from WCBS 880 New York - 04/06/2010
COOPER SQ: Have You Seen Cooper Union's New Building?
Photographs of the new Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art academic building in Cooper Square in New York, NY on Monday, April 5, 2010. The building was constructed in 2009 and designed by architect Thom Mayne of the Los Angeles-based firm Morphosis.
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News from Architectural Record - 04/01/2010
Hope Floats in New Orleans
In 2007, actor Brad Pitt’s organization, Make It Right, unveiled its plan to build new homes in New Orleans’ devastated Lower Ninth Ward and hired a roster of modern architects to conceive the designs.
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News from Independent Online - 03/25/2010
Beware, the cling-on lurks
Like a dangerous viper waiting to strike its unsuspecting victim, so too the clingy woman can be fatal for the most manly of men. Watch out! She moves with supreme swiftness, warns Masood Boomgaard.
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 03/24/2010
Newsom target of union ire
The anger over Mayor Gavin Newsom's plan to lay off 17,000 city workers and rehire most of them to work 37.5 hours a week instead of 40 has spilled outside of San Francisco - and could have ramifications for his lieutenant governor bid. Public Employees Union...
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 03/23/2010
Why Can't the World's Best Architects Build Better Web Sites?
The best way to describe Architizer might be to call it a Facebook for architects. That's probably simplifying things a bit, but for an undertaking like this, simple is the linchpin. At Architizer's West Coast launch last week, the turnout was as diverse as the thousands of projects represented on the site. Hundreds of firms--from the big names to the no-names--have created profiles and uploaded ...
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News from Architectural Record - 03/18/2010
KieranTimberlake Wins U.S. Embassy Competition
As part of its ongoing effort to fortify and modernize embassies worldwide, the U.S. State Department unveiled plans for its highest-profile project yet, awarding the New London Embassy to KieranTimberlake on February 23.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/13/2010
Brad the builder in New Orleans
After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt called in the world's top architects for his acclaimed Make It Right project. The plan was to build green homes to replace those destroyed in New Orleans.
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News from New York Review of Books - 03/08/2010
The New Tower of London
Martin Filler The winning design for the US Embassy in London, by KieranTimberlake (KieranTimberlake Architects) One of the most well-intentioned artistic initiatives ever undertaken by the United States government has turned out to be among its least successful: the embassy design program meant to present America’s best architectural face abroad. The latest evidence of this effort’s often ...
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News from Architect Magazine - 03/05/2010
London Calling: KieranTimberlake Wins U.S. Embassy Competition
The Philadelphia firm of KieranTimberlake has been chosen by the State Department to design the new U.S. embassy in London. KieranTimberlake won the project over Morphosis, Richard Meier & Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed.
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News from Daily Pennsylvanian - 03/03/2010
Ash Wednesday | Keeping design local
Ashley Takacs In the spirit of the Olympics, I present a tale of nationalism, competition and the triumph of an underdog. This story’s protagonist, however, is not a ragtag hockey team or a group of Jamaican bobsledders. My story centers on the Philadelphia design firm Kieran Timberlake that recently beat out three of the world’s most prominent architects in a juried competition for the new U.S ...
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News from Scoop.co.nz - 03/01/2010
US Announces Winner of London Embassy Design Comp
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy.
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News from Londonist - 02/25/2010
US Embassy Exhibition @ New London Architecture
Resistance is futile. After hearing that architectural models of the Borg cube future US Embassy and the runner-up designs are on show at NLA, we simply had to pop by. Seeing the four options side-by-side, we have to admit that the winning KieranTimberlake cube is pretty powerful (although it's best side is perhaps not the one pictured). The view is reinforced when you inspect the high ...
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