News from Arts Journal - 03/09/2010
Ole Scheeren, Who Designed CCTV Tower, Splits From Koolhaas Firm
"Ole Scheeren - who is considered one of the top Asia-based architects for his work on high-profile buildings such as the CCTV tower in Beijing - is stepping down from his role as partner in Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture to open his own office."
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News from People's Daily - 03/04/2010
World's top 10 beautiful buildings (7)
&$ &$7. The Seattle Central Library in U.S.&$ &$ &$ &$ The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. It was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. (Photo: huanqiu.com) &$ ?1? ?2?
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News from The Coast - 03/04/2010
By the books: Seattle Central Public Library
Seattle's central library is a world-famous mix of daring architecture and the city's creative voice. What can Halifax learn from their success? by Andy Murdoch If Halifax Public Libraries CEO Judith Hare had hired Rem Koolhaas to do our library, the diamonds up the arses of people like Herald editors, Peter Kelly and Darrell Dexter would have suddenly gotten much harder. At least, that's what ...
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News from Zawya - 03/02/2010
How the global downturn took its toll on the Waterfront
02 March 2010 In a city of huge projects, the Waterfront was to trump them all.
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 03/01/2010
Rem Koolhaas Loses His Star Designer
Ole Scheeren--the man behind CCTV and OMA's other Asian projects--says zaijian to Koolhaas, leaving the firm to start his own studio. Rem Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture announced today that Ole Scheeren, the Rotterdam-based firm's envoy to Asia and its acknowledged superstar young designer, has split to start his own studio. Scheeren was the director of OMA's Beijing office, and ...
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News from The Oregonian - 02/27/2010
Oregon arts institutions need to adapt to the recession's hard lessons: no more easy money
Many arts institutions have complained about the lack of corporate support for the arts, but there's only so much Oregon's modest economy allows
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News from Independent - 02/25/2010
Cultural Life: Richard Alston, choreographer
I haven't seen anything for a few months since Merce Cunningham's 'Nearly Ninety'. It is his measured final masterpiece before he died in July. His dancers perform with such fierce passion.
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News from Chicago Sun-Times - 02/24/2010
Aqua makes waves as world's best
David Roeder: The lady trumped The Donald. Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang Architects, designed a residential building called the Aqua at 225 N. Columbus. Aqua was named Tuesday as the 2009 Skyscraper of the Year, an annual award issued by Emporis, a company that sells data about tall buildings. With it comes a Top 10 list of the new buildings Emporis judges best in a calendar year.
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News from AFP via Yahoo! News - 02/22/2010
China to prosecute 23 for CCTV tower fire: court
China will prosecute 23 people for a blaze at its new state television headquarters that engulfed a hotel, killed a fireman and left a 24-million-dollar clean-up bill, a court official said Tuesday.
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News from Times & Transcript - 02/22/2010
China to put 23 suspects on trial for deadly fire that tore through CCTV complex last year
three people will go on trial this week for alleged involvement in a deadly fire triggered by an illegal fireworks display that gutted a hotel at the new headquarters of China's main television network last year, a court official said Monday.
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News from AP via Yahoo! News - 02/22/2010
23 suspects to stand trial in China for CCTV fire
Twenty-three people will go on trial this week for alleged involvement in a deadly fire triggered by an illegal fireworks display that gutted a hotel at the new headquarters of China's main television network last year, a court official said Monday.
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News from Haaretz Daily - 02/21/2010
A towering heroine
Chicago has a new local hero: Jeanne Gang, 45, an American architect who recently completed construction of the Aqua Tower, an 82-story luxury skyscraper that towers over the city's downtown area. Aqua Tower was designated the fifth-tallest building erected worldwide over the past year.
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News from New York Times - 02/21/2010
Ted Conover’s Roadside Attractions
Ted Conover’s globe-spanning travelogues can be fascinating in themselves, and his meditations on highways are thoughtful, temperate and generous.
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News from EARTHtimes.org - 02/20/2010
Chinese new year fireworks responsible for 35 deaths
Beijing - The Chinese tradition of setting off fireworks for the lunar new year holiday has left 35 people dead and caused millions of dollars of damage this year, state media said Saturday. A week into the traditional 15-day holiday, 7,480 fires hav...
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News from AsiaOne - 02/20/2010
Fireworks destroy ancient tower in Hebei
An old Chinese saying goes that extreme joy begets sorrow. That was the case Thursday night when fireworks ignited the last standing tower on an ancient city gate in Zhengding county in North China's Hebei province.
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News from New York Times - 02/20/2010
Ted Conover’s Roadside Attractions
Ted Conover’s globe-spanning travelogues can be fascinating in themselves, and his meditations on highways are thoughtful, temperate and generous.
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News from China Economic Net - 02/19/2010
Fireworks destroy ancient tower in Hebei
Firefighters battle a blaze at the Zhengding city gate tower in Hebei province on Thursday. [Xinhua] An old Chinese saying goes that extreme joy begets sorrow.
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 02/19/2010
Norman Foster on the Big Screen
Filmmakers Norberto López-Amado and Carlos Carcas release their documentary on the British architect. There's a new architecture documentary of Norman Foster out, adding the British architect to the movie-star ranks of Rem Koolhaas , Frank Gehry , and Louis Kahn . From the looks of it, though, it's closer to The Third and the Seventh --beautiful, sure, with slow, majestic panning shots, but oh ...
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News from New York Times - 02/19/2010
Ted Conover’s Roadside Attractions
Ted Conover’s globe-spanning travelogues can be fascinating in themselves, and his meditations on highways are thoughtful, temperate and generous.
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News from The Huffington Post - 02/19/2010
Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff With Herzog & de Meuron
The architectural team that prides itself on creating unexpected public spaces attractive to all layers of society turns to Verdi.
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