News from Arts Journal - 05/28/2010
The Independent (UK) 05/28/10
Is Norman Foster The World's Most Important Architect?
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News from Independent - 05/28/2010
Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture by Deyan Sudjic
Sir Norman Robert Foster is the single most powerful architect in the world.
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News from Art Daily - 05/27/2010
Climate Capsules: Means of Surviving Disaster at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Two visitors check out the installation 'La Parole' by artist Pablo Reinoso from 1998 in the Museum of Arts and Trades in Hamburg, Germany, 26 May 2010. The installation is part of the exhibition 'Klimakapseln' ('Climate Capsules') that takes place from 28 May to 08 August 2010. EPA/MAURIZIO GAMBARINI.
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News from EARTHtimes.org - 05/26/2010
Spiders, sunbathing and slides: Ten years of the Tate Modern
London - It all started with an exhibit featuring a giant spider. Later visitors slid down a huge slide and sunned themselves under an enormous artificial sun. Finally, they lumbered around inside a dark box....
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News from Daily Telegraph - 05/25/2010
Sir Terence Conran says 2012 Olympic mascots 'appalling'
Sir Terence Conran has criticised the "appalling" design of the mascots for the London 2012 Olympics.
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News from Zawya - 05/25/2010
Iconic tower nears completion
25 May 2010 October 10, 2010 is fast approaching. Rami K. Alturki, president, Khalid Ali Alturki & Sons Khalid Ali Alturki & Sons (Alturki Group) has every confidence that the official opening of the Alturki Business Park, planned for 10/10/10, will be a memorable event.
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News from Independent - 05/21/2010
Trail of the unexpected: Tempelhof Park, Berlin
It's not every day you get to roller-skate down a runway or barbecue sausages in the shadow of an airport terminal. But both are everyday scenes in Tempelhof Park, Berlin's newest playground. Opened earlier this month, the city's biggest park has already attracted hundreds of thousands of Berliners, keen to survey the latest reincarnation of an area that was off-limits to locals for a century.
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News from CNN - 05/20/2010
Norman Foster designs Monaco's new yacht club
Monaco is famed for its glamorous Grand Prix, exclusive Casino's and mega-wealthy occupants.
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News from New Haven Independent - 05/20/2010
Yale SOM Site Plan Approved
In the face of a new lawsuit by one irate neighbor, and concerns about a slimmed-down pedestrian walkway, Yale earned another city approval for its new School of Management campus on Whitney Avenue.
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News from The Huffington Post - 05/19/2010
Al Eisele: Kazakhstan: What Borat Missed
Astana, Kazakhstan - Borat doesn't live here any more. Actually, he never did, even though more Americans probably identify the boorish, oversexed TV journalist...
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News from London SE1 - 05/19/2010
The City - 2000 years of history
2.5 mile walk led by official City of London Guide. From the Romans to Norman Foster the walk spans 2000 years of history taking in City of London Livery Companies, Wren churches, the Great Fire and the Blitz.
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News from South Manchester Reporter - 05/19/2010
Sir Norman Foster to design Didsbury hospital
The man behind the new Wembley Stadium, the Gherkin, and the Millennium Bridge has been recruited to create a new hospital in Manchester. Stockport-born Norman Foster has been appointed to design the 600-patient ‘health campus’ in Didsbury.
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News from Mail and Guardian - 05/18/2010
Casablanca -- an insider's guide
Close your eyes and think of Casablanca. Your mind most probably comes alive with images of Bogart, Bergman and Sam tickling the ivories in the smoke-filled Rick's Café. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 05/18/2010
Artful selection of architect makes statement
When stockbrokers buy futures, they follow research and hunches in search of a jackpot down the road. You can apply the same concept to architecture when cultural institutions cast the net for a designer who will deliver a first-rate building and the right... Architect - Business - Research - Architecture - Design
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 05/17/2010
Artful selection of architect makes statement
When stockbrokers buy futures, they follow research and hunches in search of a jackpot down the road. You can apply the same concept to architecture when cultural institutions cast the net for a designer who will deliver a first-rate building and the right... Architect - Research - Business - Architecture - Arts
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/15/2010
About Us
It is the most expensively and extensively argued-over building in modern Britain, the subject of a multi-million-pound public inquiry. It is the fruit of 12 years' labour since its conception, and £500m expenditure.
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News from BBC News - 05/15/2010
F1 circus hits Monaco
Sarah Holt on a frenzied start to the Monaco GP weekend
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News from MSNBC - 05/14/2010
Strap in and put the pedal to the metal
For travelers who prefer to make their trips in a car, Web site Askmen.com has come up with a list of the world's top 10 international driving routes outside the United States.
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News from CBC Ottawa - 05/14/2010
Smiths Falls rail station gets 2nd act
The community theatre group of Smiths Falls, Ont., is opening its first show Friday night in a venue that's been 10 years in the making.
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News from KSL Salt Lake City - 05/13/2010
Hard choices seen in Utah panel triage guidelines
Health officials would have to make hard life-and-death choices about treating the most acutely sick or badly injured in a pandemic flu or mass public health emergency.
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