News from Londonist - 07/04/2011
Week In Geek: 4-10 July 2011
Events for Londoners with curious minds. Two biggies this week, as the Royal Society runs its annual Summer Science Exhibition and the London Film and Comic Con wheels out a guest list of geek stars that would make Commander Worf grin like a tomfool, and probably wet himself. Monday 4 July FICTION : The lablit bookclub returns to the Royal Institution. This month’s book choice is The Giant, O ...
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News from EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press - 05/15/2011
Salthouse pilgrimage for painting lovers
A summer art show in a beloved church high above the north Norfolk coast is now a highlight of East Anglia’s cultural calendar. Ian Collins visits Salthouse 07.
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News from NBC Miami - 03/27/2011
Frosts Donate $35 Million to Science Center
Long-delayed new building project gets a boost with one of the largest philanthropic donations in Miami history
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News from Miami Herald - 03/26/2011
Frosts give $35 million to Miami Science Museum’s new site
Philanthropists Patricia and Phillip Frost pledged $35 million to the Miami Science Museum’s new home, putting the long-planned project on a fast track to completion.
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News from Independent - 01/06/2011
The supersize skyline: Why 2011 will be the year architecture takes a giant leap upwards
Brute bigness will be a defining feature of architecture in 2011. The way large buildings occupy space, and even the way architecture will become the threshold to outer space (thanks to Norman Foster and Richard Branson) has put supersizing firmly on the menu.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 12/23/2010
Napoleon-proof your home: convert a Martello tower
Britain's Martello towers were built to keep the French navy at bay. Jonathan Glancey reports on how one rotting relic in Suffolk was turned into an extraordinary new home Martello towers were built, at great cost, along the coasts of Kent, Sussex, Essex and Suffolk at the time of the Napoleonic wars. Originally, there were 103 of these 30ft-high towers, with walls 13ft thick and roof-mounted ...
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News from Stuff - 09/28/2010
Bathing in history
The Romans had their faults - rape, pillage and wearing dodgy togas among them. But they were on to something when they discovered the hot mineral waters bubbling out of the ground in England's south-west were just the thing to cure ailments and ease aching muscles.
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News from Miami Herald - 09/23/2010
Plans for new Miami Science Museum clears major hurdle
The planned new Miami Science Museum off Biscayne Boulevard cleared a major hurdle Thursday when the City Commission approved a sleekly contemporary, environmentally friendly design that supporters say will help turn a bleak corner of downtown into a dynamic magnet for visitors.
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Blog from Jeff Mills Coastal Vacations Club Blog - 10/08/2009
A Treasure of London Seldom Visited – Camden
Camden is one of London’s hidden gems. Camden’s borough goes North from the central areas of Covent Garden and Holborn through Euston and Kings Cross into the trendy Camden Town quarter to the verdant and leafy Hampstead quarter. Being generally a wealthy quarter there are many pubs and restaurants that allow your pooch to join you for a rest. It is situated on the old site of the manor of Cantelowes. The Manor house was acquired through marriage in the 1700s by Sir Charles Pratt a politician and radical lawyer who later became the 1st Earl of Camden.
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Blog from Raedwald - 06/16/2009
Richard Rogers is no Wren
Those architects whose names we know - post-mediaeval, for the most part - have left us with a built legacy that has become part of the national psyche. Vanburgh, Wren, Hawksmoor, James Wyatt, Adam, Charles Barry, Pugin and Lutyens (of whom Jonathan Meades said 'Lutyens is known to have designed eighteen houses, forty-seven of which are in Surrey') and several more are generally recognised by many. Their creations are carefully preserved, and count their life-span in centuries.
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Blog from IndieLondon - 05/09/2009
Summer Exhibition 2009 - Royal Academy of Arts
THIS year, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition will be on display in the Main Galleries from June 8 to August 16, 2009. Now in its 241st year, the Summer Exhibition 2009 continues the tradition of displaying a wide range of new work by both established and unknown artists in all media including painting, printmaking, photography,
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Blog from Fantastic Journal - 02/28/2009
The Odd Couple
British architecture throughout the 1980's was pretty much a straight fight between high-tech and postmodernism. Nicholas Grimshaw ( ... out by the belligerent arguments of the time. Grimshaw's refined industrial aesthetic and Farrell's ... structures, allied to non-hierarchical ideas of spatial and social organisation. For Grimshaw
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Blog from Brian's [a] Straight Dope - 01/08/2009
Skylab, Holst projects earn year-end honors
[ SL-north-main-1] Interior Design Magazine has awarded Skylab Architecture a 'Best of Year' award for the design of the branding agency North ... winners were all European architects or firms: Englishmen Nicholas Grimshaw (for an experimental media
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Blog from Portland Architecture - 01/07/2009
Architectural Heritage Center seeks nominees for top Portland buildings list
What are your favorite Portland Buildings? In conjunction with Oregon's 150th birthday, coming up this Valentine's Day, ... is now a theater for the possibilities of engineering. Reminiscent of Norman Foster's Nicholas Grimshaw's Waterloo Station London or the new Penn Station being built in New York, this is a grand glass
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Blog from Kirberts finance advice and news - 01/04/2009
Eco-offices Should Always Receive the Green Light
Eco-offices Should Always Receive the Green Light January 5th, 2009 Matt Crick Eco-buildings come in many different forms: self-sufficient or autonomous structures, self-build, wooden timbre-framed, cob cottages, traditional mud and stud, to name but a few
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Blog from Memeticians - 11/13/2008
Hypertext Bazaar - 11.13.08
grimshaw blackboard (Nicholas Grimshaw) A collection of blackboard markups of various notables - from Brian Eno to Albert Einstein. Check out the Martin Rees job. Overall, a good cross-section
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Blog from PM - 10/10/2008
It's Oscars night
The Oscars of the architecture world, that is. The Stirling Prize. It's being awarded tomorrow night ... its soaring spaces and use of timber. On PM tonight I'll be talking to Sir Nicholas Grimshaw whose
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Blog from Shedworking - 10/07/2008
Giant mango shed
While we tend to think of shedworking in terms of single occupancy in a modestly sized garden office, ... Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind, Nicholas Grimshaw and Toyo Ito, among many others."
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Blog from Slow Painting - 09/29/2008
Boston and Monets
September 28, 2008 in Art History | Tags: Boston MFA, Claude Monet, Impressionism, painting Next month, the city [of Sydney] ... , curious, quietly sophisticated, well-travelled and well-heeled”, as Nicholas Grimshaw, president of London
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