News from Los Angeles Times - 07/11/2011
Critic's Notebook: Fast lane to gridlock
It will hurt to lose the 405 for a weekend not because we love freeways so much but because Los Angeles is so limited in terms of mobility. We've left ourselves with no escape hatches or viable alternatives. Is it just me, or are you sort of glad that "Carmageddon" is happening?
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News from Independent - 07/09/2011
Wild thing: The highly structured 'natural' landscapes of Piet Oudolf
Accept death. That's what Piet Oudolf wants you to do. You might imagine a summer garden would be full of lovely flowers, but he has other ideas. Rotting vegetation? Allows you to process emotionally the fact that everything in the end decomposes. Dying brown stalks? Brown is a colour, too, you know.
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News from The Globe and Mail - 07/08/2011
Architecture with soaring aspirations, close to the ground
Architecture of simple dignity - incorporating intelligence, and natural fit within a particular context - is the new sublime
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News from Architect Magazine - 07/05/2011
New York Times Appoints Michael Kimmelman as Chief Architecture Critic
New York Times culture critic, foreign correspondent, and Abroad column author, Michael Kimmelman, will be returning from his post in Berlin this fall to serve as the paper’s chief architecture critic. This follows the resignation last month of Nicolai Ouroussoff, who held the post since 2004.
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News from Independent - 07/04/2011
Susie Rushton: Will Twitter put PRs out of business?
Twitter is leakier than a hedgehog's underpants. Isn't that one of its best uses – as a messageboard for the disclosure of cheeky, sneaky revelations? Mark Upton, the senior civil servant who has just been collared for tweeting rude remarks about his political bosses at the Department for Communities and Local Government, obviously thought so. For months he used the handle Naked Civil Servant to ...
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News from Bloomberg - 07/04/2011
Pritzker Winner Zumthor on Serpentine Pavilion
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Peter Zumthor, the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize, talks about his Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London, a temporary structure commissioned every year that gets dismantled in October. Zumthor spoke with Bloomberg's Farah Nayeri on June 27. (Excerpt.
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News from Bloomberg - 07/03/2011
Zumthor Says `Less Questioned' Since Pritzker Prize: Video
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Peter Zumthor, the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize, talks about his Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London, a temporary structure commissioned every year that gets dismantled in October. Zumthor spoke with Bloomberg's Farah Nayeri on June 27. (Excerpt.
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News from Bloomberg - 07/03/2011
Pritzker Winner Zumthor’s Serpentine Pavilion Is Quiet Cloister: Interview
A monastic cloister with a garden at its core has sprouted in London’s Hyde Park.
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News from Independent - 07/02/2011
Editor-At-Large: I’d rather shop with my mouse than with Mary Portas
I've never had much time for the self-important utterances of our Speaker's wife, but when Sally Bercow failed to find much sympathy for struggling retailers on Twitter, she hit on an uncomfortable truth. According to Sally, it was "sad" that household names such as Habitat and Focus were in trouble, but not really that tragic as she never shopped at any of them. She trashed chocolate retailer ...
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News from Independent - 06/30/2011
The Diary: Peter Zumthor; Marcus Foster; Pleasance theatre; Nick McCarthy; Edinburgh Fringe
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News from New York Times - 06/30/2011
One Exhibition in London for Twombly and Poussin
Cy Twombly and Poussin share one show in London; Takashi Murakami has another.
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News from Londonist - 06/30/2011
In Pictures: The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011
Less a statement by the designer and more an experience for park visitors than in recent years , this summer’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor opens to the public tomorrow. Says Zumthor, it “aims to help its audience take the time to relax, to observe and then, perhaps, start to talk again – maybe not”. The hope of providing a space for folk to take it easy and ...
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News from Daily Telegraph - 06/29/2011
Piet Oudolf's garden at the Serpentine Gallery pavilion
Piet Oudolf, the low-key Dutchman, has created the enclosed garden at the centre of this year's Serpentine Gallery pavilion
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News from Arts Journal - 06/29/2011
Entering Peter Zumthor's Serpentine Pavilion
"The intensely black Serpentine pavilion is really little more than a perfectly proportioned wooden agricultural shed - you can easily imagine hens, cows and horses here - with a garden at its centre and a bench, stained Prussian blue, running all around it."
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News from Independent - 06/27/2011
Serpentine Pavilion takes gallery visitors over to the dark side
The phrase "dark matter" is usually applied to the most mysterious substances that make up our universe. But now the legendary Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, whose Serpentine Gallery Pavilion opens to the public on Friday, has brought dark matter to Earth in Hyde Park in a building whose apparent cloister-like simplicity asks a deceptively simple question: "Where do you think you are?"
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News from BBC News - 06/27/2011
'Contemplative room'
A look at the new Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
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News from BBC News - 06/27/2011
In pictures: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
A look at the new Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 in London.
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News from Evening Standard - 06/27/2011
Serpentine Pavilion mixes modern with medieval
This summer's pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery - a fixture of the London summer landscape since the year 2000 - is cool and quiet, resembling the gardens of a medieval European monastery rather than the cutting edge of modern architecture.
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News from Independent - 06/26/2011
Julia Peyton-Jones: 'I feel impoverished. We are adrift from nature'
Hyde Park might be the last place you'd think would need a garden, but Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery, which opens to the world's press today, is just that. Inside its black boxy exterior is a garden of shrubs and grasses decorating a cloister-like space for contemplation.
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News from Arts Journal - 06/20/2011
Peter Zumthor Insists He Is Down-To-Earth, Not Mystical
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect "may be white-bearded and dark-clad and his office, in a secluded spot outside the Swiss town of Chur, may take the form of a cloister around a garden ... and he may like to talk of such things as the 'mystery' of materials.
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