News from NY1 News - 07/19/2011
Chow: Coolhaus Ice Cream At The Lot On Tap
The High Line now extends north to 30th street. Under the new extension is an urban playground of sorts, the Lot on Tap, with a collection of food trucks.
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News from CNN - 07/13/2011
'Dallas' vs. Dallas: TV & what's real
The city of Dallas spent years enjoying -- then overcoming -- the reputation of "Dallas," the primetime soap opera. Now, there's a new "Dallas" heading to TV, but can it capture how this city changed?
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News from CNN - 07/13/2011
'Dallas' vs. Dallas: Where TV stops and reality begins
Jessica Angelly stood outside the Sixth Floor Museum last week, taking in the sights of downtown Dallas with family and friends.
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News from Curbed New York - 07/12/2011
Archicritics: Of course Nicolai Ouroussoff couldn't leave...
Of course Nicolai Ouroussoff couldn't leave the Times archidesk without weighing in on Rem Koolhaas' CCTV Tower in Beijing. The fire-ravaged project has long been a favorite of Nicolai's, and that hasn't changed. In fact, "at moments monumental and combative,...
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News from GOOD - 07/11/2011
Pedro, Eazy E, and Keith Haring: How '90s Kids Learned About AIDS
Children of the '90s came of age when the conversation about AIDS was shifting from panic to activism and education. While standard sex ed classes certainly helped millions of young people understand the basics of HIV, AIDS, and safe sex, at the forefront of much of the public awareness were music, movies, tv shows, and sports. Here, a roundup of the key moments in pop culture that gave the AIDS ...
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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 New York Times - 07/11/2011
Koolhaas’s CCTV Building Fits Beijing as City of the Future
Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV building in Beijing, headquarters of China Central Television, has a beguiling and powerful design and is a metaphor for a country racing headlong into the future.
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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 New York Times - 07/10/2011
China Emerges as a Force in International Design
Exhibitions in Rotterdam and Milan highlight China's emergence as a force in international design.
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News from Daily Telegraph - 07/08/2011
Guangzhou Opera House falling apart
The Guangzhou Opera House has been described as the most alluring opera house built anywhere in the world for decades, with a sleek "intergalactic" form that leaves architecture-lovers swooning.
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News from rediff.com - 07/03/2011
30 MEGA projects: China's pride, world's envy!
Some of the world's biggest and most expensive infrastructure projects are in China.
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News from Independent - 07/02/2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavilions, By Philip Jodidio
The opening of the 11th annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion on Friday marked what has become a celebrated event in London's summer diary.
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News from Western Herald - 07/01/2011
Paul Terzino accepts position as the bernhard center’s new director
Ted Yoakum Western Herald The Bernhard Center has a new director at its helm, bringing with him over 20 years of student center experience and a student centric approach to managing the facilities’ operations. Paul Terzino, who most recently worked as the director of university centers at the University of California San Diego, took the [...]
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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 Art Daily - 06/30/2011
Sir Terence Conran Makes Major Gift to the Design Museum for New Development Project
Sir Terence Conran’s donation consists of a cash gift of £7.5m and the value of the sale of the lease of the current Design Museum building at Shad Thames valued in the region of £10m.
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News from BBC News - 06/29/2011
Conran donates to Design Museum
Designer Sir Terence Conran donates £7.5m towards a project to develop London's Design Museum.
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News from Haaretz Daily - 06/26/2011
Google Maps, circa 1570
Late 16th-century Jerusalem is "the most famous of Judea and the entire East, whose size and splendor marvels the imagination" according to German geographer and theologian George Braun, who during the Renaissance created several of the most important historical maps of the city.
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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 The Huffington Post - 06/23/2011
Charles A. Birnbaum: Nostalgia 2.0: Has Historic Preservation Become a Spectator Sport?
The modern historic preservation movement needs to take action: the current climate demands that it recast itself, build better and more strategic bridges with the design community, and in the process get back in touch with its roots.
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News from Bloomberg - 06/14/2011
Piano Whitney Clunker; Snohetta San Francisco Behemoth: Review
The latest design for the $210 million Whitney Museum of American Art looks like a top-heavy container ship run aground in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.
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