News from Interior Design - 01/22/2010
Cindy's Salon
"I believe that the language of architecture is not a question of a specific style. Every building is built for a specific use in a specific place and for a specific society."
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 12/26/2009
High points of the noughties
Twitter, Daniel Barenboim, XBox, WG Sebald, Nicholas Hytner's National, Big Brother and The Wire... just some of the cultural highs of the noughties.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 12/26/2009
Review of the decade | Culture
Twitter, Daniel Barenboim, XBox, WG Sebald, Nicholas Hytner's National, Big Brother and The Wire... just some of the cultural highs of the noughties. From the rise of Dizzee Rascal to the emergence – at the age of 89 – of the dazzling Cuban painter Carmen Herrera, our critics pick the defining people and trends of the past 10 years TECHNOLOGY GOOGLE Larry Page and Sergey Brin began thinking ...
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News from Interior Design - 12/22/2009
New Products
What can rest stops, information centers, and observation decks tell visitors about a culture?
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News from Arts Journal - 12/14/2009
Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
In Saturday's NY Times , Michael Kimmelman provided a needed critical appraisal of the late Thomas Hoving 's professional accomplishments and missteps.
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News from Interior Design - 12/10/2009
Staff -- Interior Design, 3/1/2003
completed projects: Competition entries for museums, Carlow, Ireland; Azuma-mura, Japan. Conceptual designs for a prototype hotel for a Japanese technology company.
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News from Arts Journal - 12/08/2009
Hurdles Ahead For Zumthor's LACMA Makeover
LACMA director and CEO Michael "Govan is known for a keen interest in contemporary architecture," but his recruitment of Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor to reconfigure the campus will be viewed by many Angelenos "as merely the latest in a long line of high-profile architectural plans to remake the museum, none of which has so far come close to fulfilling its early promise."
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News from Arts Journal - 12/04/2009
Peter Zumthor Thinks About Remaking LACMA
"We're talking about building into the architecture a critical thread. A dark space.
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News from Arts Journal - 12/02/2009
Peter Zumthor Working On Major Makeover For LACMA
"The dream of razing four of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's oldest buildings - or at least radically reconfiguring the dreary, closed-in quadrangle they occupy - is being resurrected."
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News from Arts Journal - 12/01/2009
Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
In the tradition of "nattering nabobs of negativism" (R.I.P. William Safire , who penned that phrase when he was speech writer for Vice President Sprio Agnew ), we now can enunciate a new alliterative putdown: "mediocre morsel of modernism."
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 11/05/2009
Jonathan Glancey on architect Charles Holden
Charles Holden is better known for his wonderful London Underground stations, yet, between the years of 1918 and 1928, the architect designed no fewer than 67 military cemeteries for the soldiers killed in the first world war.
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News from Arts Journal - 11/05/2009
The Quietest Of Pritzker Prize Winners
Peter Zumthor "is known to be uncompromising when it comes to his designs, and he exhibits his work rarely.
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News from Interior Design - 10/25/2009
Cherchez La Femme
"It's like a helicopter taking off in the living room," Olivia Putman says, laughing as she describes the white spiral staircase at the core of a Brussels apartment completely transformed by Agence Andrée Putman, the firm headed by her mother.
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News from Art Daily - 10/23/2009
Tony Oursler Shows His Immersive Media Installations at Kunsthaus Bregenz
Tony Oursler, LOCK 2,4,6. Kunsthaus Bregenz, 24.10.2009 - 17.01.2010. Installation view 2nd floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Markus Tretter © Tony Oursler, Kunsthaus Bregenz.
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News from Interior Design - 10/23/2009
Cherchez La Femme
"It's like a helicopter taking off in the living room," Olivia Putman says, laughing as she describes the white spiral staircase at the core of a Brussels apartment completely transformed by Agence Andrée Putman, the firm headed by her mother.
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News from Independent - 10/16/2009
What a prize mess: The Stirling Prize
The Stirling Prize, British architecture's equivalent of the Booker, will be announced at a televised beano at London's old Billingsgate fish market tonight. The arcaded halls will hum with febrile expectation. But of what? Is this British architecture at the cutting edge, or trapped in a carefully stage-managed and institutionalised view of good design in the 21st century?
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News from Swissinfo - 10/12/2009
Leçons d'architecture suisse à Pékin
L'exposition Arch/Scapes s'est ouverte fin septembre à Pékin. Elle présente en images, audio et vidéo quinze constructions architecturales de Suisse pour illustrer le mariage de l'urbanisme contemporain et de la nature. L'intérêt est artistique, mais aussi commercial...
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Blog from Chair Blog - 10/05/2009
Smarties Geometries Chair by Mattia Bonetti
Sold at a recent Phillips de Pury sale for £7,500 (Estimate was £3,000-5,000), this number two of a limited edition of eight Smarties Geometries Chairs by Mattia Bonetti. Similar Posts: Smarties Geometries Chair by Mattia Bonetti Pierced Seat by Isamu Noguchi London Design Festival 2008 (6): Pillips de Pury | Vitra Limited Edition 2007 | Kimono Chair by Tokujin Yoshioka Phillips de Pury & Company: TOM DIXON, Phillips de Pury & Company: PETER ZUMTHOR, Chaise lounge
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Blog from Archinect - Making Architecture More Connected (since 1997) - 09/24/2009
Zaha Hadid Wins Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture
Zaha Hadid has been awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture by the Japan Art Association. Hadid inherits the title from 2008 laureate Peter Zumthor. The other Praemium Imperiale laureates for 2009 are: Painting - Hiroshi Sugimoto; Sculpture - Richard Long; Music - Alfred Brendel; Theater/Film: Tom Stoppard. Bustler
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News from Interior Design - 09/22/2009
Trespa Showcases Restaurant Design by Stuart Forbes and Olle Lundberg
The weeklong event will combine an exhibition of the designs of London's River Café and San Francisco's Moss Room with panel discussions between the chef-owners and architects of each restaurant.
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