News from rediff.com - 07/20/2011
IMAGES: World's most amazing circular buildings
The circular shape of these magnificent buildings have made them architectural wonders.
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News from St. Petersburg Times - 07/19/2011
Investor Reveals Potential Designs for New Holland
Architectural projects for the redevelopment of New Holland island were unveiled to the press Friday, a day before the island was opened to the public for the first time in its 300-year history.
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News from CNET - 07/19/2011
The Millau Viaduct, the world's tallest bridge
Road Trip 2011: Filling the gap on the A75 autoroute from Paris to Perpignan, the Millau Viaduct rises up to 1,025 feet above the Tarn Valley below. And it looks good, too.
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News from Las Vegas Review-Journal - 07/12/2011
Citycenter Developers Get Aug. 15 Deadline On Harmon Tower
Clark County's Building Division gave CityCenter developers until Aug. 15 to devise a strategy for either repairing or demolishing the unfinished Harmon tower after a structural engineer said the 27-story building could collapse in a strong earthquake. In
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News from Louisiana Weekly - 07/12/2011
New Orleans poised to end 2011 in better shape than 2010
Despite significant reform to the way the city collects fines, taxes and permitting fees, New Orleans collected slightly fewer dollars in the first six months of the year than it did in the same period of 2010. Even so, the city is on track to end the year in the black, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s top financial officer told the City Council Budget Committee on Thursday.
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News from Car Design News - 07/12/2011
by Joe Simpson
Goodwood house, with the 50th anniversary of the E-type sculpture on the lawn. Click for larger images The Goodwood Festival of Speed began 19 years ago. Back then, it amounted to little more than a glorified hill climb for historic racecars.
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News from rediff.com - 07/12/2011
IMAGES: The world's biggest and busiest projects
Tallest, longest, busiest the world has a number of record breaking projects.
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News from Las Vegas Review-Journal - 07/11/2011
Engineering Company Finds Harmon Tower Construction Defects 'Pervasive'
The unfinished Harmon tower at CityCenter is virtually unrepairable and could collapse in a "code-level" earthquake, according to a structural engineer hired by MGM Resorts International who examined the 27-story building. In the report, members of Weidlinger
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News from Time.com via Yahoo! News - 07/11/2011
Bookless Library Trend: Designing Space for Digital Learning
We've been hearing about it for years, but the bookless library has finally arrived, making a beachhead on college campuses. At Drexel University's new Library Learning Terrace, which opened just last month, there is nary a bound volume, just rows of computers and plenty of seating offering access to the Philadelphia university's 170 million electronic items. ...
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News from Louisiana Weekly - 07/11/2011
Training session for citizenry input in budgetary process set
The New Orleans Coalition on Open Governance is holding a train ing session for citizens next week to teach them how, when, and where best to speak up so that their voices are included in the city’s budget process, which is already underway.
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News from Londonist - 07/11/2011
Planning Permission For Shoreditch Tower
The skyscraper formerly known as Bishops Place has been green-lighted by Hackney council . Re-christened Principal Place, the scheme is a long-running, and controversial, project to erect a tiered, 50-storey residential skyscraper and smaller office block, designed by Norman Foster’s firm, on a bit of land just north of the Bishopsgate Tower, at the dividing line where Shoreditch and the City of ...
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News from Time Magazine - 07/11/2011
Is a Bookless Library Still a Library?
In libraries across the country, digital seems to be winning the battle over the printed word, but some lament what else we might be losing along in the movement to go bookless
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News from Art Daily - 07/10/2011
Bruce Nauman's "For Beginners" Enters Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Collection
File photo of American artist Bruce Nauman working at his studio. AP Photo/The Japan Art Association. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced that Bruce Nauman’s most recent large-scale video and sound installation, For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and fingers), 2010, is now part of its collection thanks to French entrepreneur François Pinault’s ...
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News from Arts Journal - 07/08/2011
Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
The official announcement is not scheduled until Monday. But the word has gotten out that George T.M. Shackelford , chair of the Boston Museum of Fine Art's European art department and its senior curator of modern art, will become senior deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, where he will play an important role in planning for the museum's expansion into its planned Renzo Piano ...
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News from Yale University Office of Public Affairs - 07/08/2011
Tigerman Exhibition and Lecture Kick Off Fall Series of Free Architecture Events
The following is a schedule of free and public events at the Yale School of Architecture this fall. All events take place in Hastings Hall, the auditorium of Paul Rudolph Hall, 180 York Street. Lectures and film screening begin at 6:30 p.m.
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News from AFP Relax via Yahoo! Malaysia News - 07/08/2011
Innovative exhibition helps Hong Kong expand its artistic landscape
For a city that is increasingly keen to promote itself as an artistic "hub," a new exhibition that challenges the way we look at the world -- and especially at ourselves -- could not have come at a better time.
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News from New Sabah Times - 07/07/2011
State needs to transform from eco-tourism destination into investment opportunity for foreign investors
KOTA KINABALU : Sabah needs to convert its well-known reputation as an eco-tourism destination into an investment opportunity for foreign investors to tap its real estate market.
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News from Londonist - 07/07/2011
Window Pane Falls From Top Of Canary Wharf Tower
A pane of glass plummeted from one of the UK’s tallest buildings yesterday. Part of the logo from the Norman Foster-designed HSBC Tower fell over 150 metres onto the building’s western entrance, closing North Colonnade while inspection took place. There are no reports of any injuries. In a slightly odd statement, an HSBC spokesperson told reporters “We don’t know why it fell out, but we are ...
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News from Daily Telegraph - 07/07/2011
McLaren gym work helps F1 team stay ahead
Louisa Peacock is motivated after day at McLaren Racing, ahead of the Grand Prix this Sunday.
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News from LAist - 07/05/2011
Pencil This In: Readings on 'Independence' and Renegade History, Wine + Jazz Tuesdays
Independence Day celebrations continue—in a literary sort of way—at the Annenberg Beach House and at Vroman's in Pasadena. It's also Tuesday, that means it's wine and jazz night at Hollywood & Highland. Read on for more details. [ more › ]
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