News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/09/2010
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The philosopher Alain de Botton is to venture into holiday lettings in an attempt to cure the British public of what he believes is a widely held fear of modernist architecture.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/09/2010
Alain de Botton commissions holiday homes to promote modernist architecture
Philosopher announces not-for-profit scheme to rent out five buildings designed by world-class architects The philosopher Alain de Botton is to venture into holiday lettings in an attempt to cure the British public of what he believes is a widely held fear of modernist architecture. The author of books including the Consolations of Philosophy and The Architecture of Happiness, has commissioned ...
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News from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 05/08/2010
A Swiss Secret, Tucked Away in the Alps
IMAGINE a mountain landscape speckled with rustic villages whose residents speak an ancient, isolated language. Centuries-old stone dwellings with mysterious renderings of wild men and mountain goats are etched into white facades. Panoramic views are so clear and stunning you have to rub your eyes to make sure you're not in a Hollywood epic.
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News from New York Times - 05/07/2010
A Swiss Secret, Tucked Away in the Alps
Scuol, capital of the remote, rugged Lower Engadine. IMAGINE a mountain landscape speckled with rustic villages whose residents speak an ancient, isolated language. Centuries-old stone dwellings with mysterious renderings of wild men and mountain goats are etched into white facades.
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News from Free Internet Press - 05/06/2010
New Third Reich Monument In Berlin - Revealing The Young Bureaucrats Behind The Nazi Terror
Who exactly were the men who planned and administered the Nazi crimes? The new "Topography of Terror" documentation center opened on Thursday in Berlin at the site of the former Gestapo and SS headquarters. It reveals the faces of the almost unknown perpetrators of the Holocaust.
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News from New York Times - 05/06/2010
A Swiss Secret, Tucked Away in the Alps
Scuol, capital of the remote, rugged Lower Engadine. IMAGINE a mountain landscape speckled with rustic villages whose residents speak an ancient, isolated language. Centuries-old stone dwellings with mysterious renderings of wild men and mountain goats are etched into white facades.
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 05/05/2010
How to Build a Monument to Nazi Evil Without Celebrating It
Berlin's new "Topography of Terror" exhibition center documents, doesn't honor, the Gestapo and the SS. These were some of the most evil 11 acres in Germany, a place where Nazi leaders hatched plans to terrorize millions as casually as you might send an email. Heinrich Himmler had an office there. So did Adolf Eichmann, the "architect of the Holocaust." It was there that, in a matter of months ...
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News from GOOD - 04/08/2010
Build the House in the Hill
Like so many great design schemes, Christian Müller 's idea for Villa Vals walked the line between intuitive and loony. You want to build a house on a dramatic hill, but aren't allowed to obstruct the landscape. Therefore you build the house in the hill. So went the Dutch architect's devilishly deconstructed thinking as he weighed plans for a home in Vals, the tiny Swiss resort town best known ...
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News from Bloomberg - 03/29/2010
Japanese Duo Gets $100,000 Pritzker for Brainy, Boxy Designs
March 28 (Bloomberg) -- Big square windows appear to have landed at random on the walls of the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany, as if dropped there by a passing breeze.
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News from Reuters via Yahoo! News - 03/28/2010
Japan architects Sejima, Nishizawa win coveted Pritzker
Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have won their profession's top honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, praised for their use of light and transparency in buildings across the globe.
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News from Reuters via Yahoo! News - 03/28/2010
Japanese architects Sejma, Nishizawa win coveted Pritzker
Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have won their profession's top honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, praised for their use of light and transparency in buildings across the globe.
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News from Arts Journal - 03/28/2010
Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
New York's New Museum can now boast of having had its new facility designed by this year's winners of the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture.
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News from Bloomberg - 03/28/2010
Japanese Duo Gets $100,000 Pritzker for Brainy, Boxy Designs
March 28 (Bloomberg) -- Big square windows appear to have landed at random on the walls of the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany, as if dropped there by a passing breeze.
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 03/23/2010
Rumors grow over SFMOMA's search for architect
Art is subject to interpretation - and so is the architectural search being conducted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It began last month with letters to what staffers say are "15 to 20" international architects. Each was asked whether they want to...
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News from Arts Journal - 03/17/2010
SFMOMA Mulls Boldface-Name Architects For Expansion
"[G]rand masters like Renzo Piano and Norman Foster as well as emerging stars like Norway's Snohetta and London-based Tanzanian designer David Adjaye" are among those being considered, alongside "Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Steven Holl, and Mexican architect Enrique Norton."
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News from The Australian - 03/12/2010
Paddling perfection in the Swiss Alps
WE are in a steaming pool, staring out at the Swiss Alps. The air is tinged with wood smoke; the only sounds are bubbling water and the odd cowbell.
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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
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What can rest stops, information centers, and observation decks tell visitors about a culture?
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