News from Los Angeles Downtown News - 05/28/2010
Eli Broad: ‘We’d Rather Be Downtown’
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Eli Broad is no stranger to Grand Avenue. He helped found the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Grand Avenue Committee. With former Mayor Richard Riordan he revived the plan to build the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and he convinced the Los Angeles Unified School District to hire a big-name architect to build its $232 million arts high school on Grand Avenue. Last year, he ...
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News from Los Angeles Downtown News - 05/27/2010
Eli Broad: ‘We’d Rather Be Downtown’
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Eli Broad is no stranger to Grand Avenue. He helped found the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Grand Avenue Committee. With former Mayor Richard Riordan he revived the plan to build the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and he convinced the Los Angeles Unified School District to hire a big-name architect to build its $232 million arts high school on Grand Avenue. Last year, he ...
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News from The Cornell Daily Sun - 05/26/2010
Four Years at Cornell: Timeline
9.7.06 Skorton Takes Office as President: President David Skorton officially took office during an inauguration on the Arts Quad. However, he had been serving as president since the beginning of the 06-07 academic year.
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News from Los Angeles Times - 05/25/2010
Two architectural firms are finalists for Broad museum project
Sources say the field of six architects, four of whom are winners of the Pritzker Prize, has been narrowed to Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and New York-based Diller, Scofidio & Renfro. Sources say the field of six architects, four of whom are winners of the Pritzker Prize, has been narrowed to Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and New York-based Diller, Scofidio & Renfro.
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News from New York Times - 05/25/2010
Whitney Museum Plans New Building Downtown
The museum’s board voted Tuesday to begin construction next year in Manhattan’s meatpacking district.
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News from New York Times - 05/24/2010
Whitney Museum Plans New Building Downtown
The museum’s board voted Tuesday to begin construction next year in Manhattan’s meatpacking district.
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News from LA Observed - 05/24/2010
Broad museum takes shape
Mark Lacter: The billionaire philanthropist had six architecture teams coming up with designs for the proposed downtown site next to Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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News from New York Times - 05/24/2010
Whitney Museum to Break Ground Downtown
The museum’s board voted Tuesday to begin construction on a new building in Manhattan’s meatpacking district.
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News from Independent - 05/24/2010
Ravaged cities of Russia get Koolhaas cure
Moscow has a reputation as a chaotic, ugly city where anything goes when it comes to construction. In recent times, architectural and aesthetic values have taken a back seat to business interests.
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News from New York Times - 05/24/2010
Eli Broad Said to Pick Site for New Museum
The philanthropist and collector Eli Broad is said to be focusing on a downtown Los Angeles location.
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News from Los Angeles Times - 05/24/2010
Architectural firms vie for Broad museum project
The six architects -- four are winners of the Pritzker Prize -- are based in Holland, England, Switzerland, Japan, France and the U.S. Eli Broad is a little further along in his plans for a downtown museum than you might have guessed.
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News from The Globe and Mail - 05/22/2010
‘Not particularly innovative but nicely done’
Three experts from the worlds of media, women’s marketing and design weigh in on Chatelaine’s redesign
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News from New York Times - 05/19/2010
Architects at Play, Dangling Medals
Architecture’s luminaries gather at Ellis Island to bestow their version of the Nobel, the Tony, the Oscar.
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News from New York Times - 05/18/2010
The Engineered Shoe
At United Nude, high-tech women’s shoes from Rem Koolhaas (no, not THAT one, but close).
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/17/2010
Tomes, sweet tomes: how Rem Koolhaas re-engineered the architecture book
The Dutch architect's practice OMA is so prolific with research that it's rumoured to produce a book a day. So what's behind this preoccupation with publishing? In Britain we're sceptical of the idea of the architect as intellectual. Most people probably aren't aware that there's a whole realm of architecture that doesn't involve erecting buildings. But from Vitruvius in the 1st century BC and ...
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/17/2010
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The Dutch architect's practice OMA is so prolific with research that it's rumoured to produce a book a day. So what's behind this preoccupation with publishing?
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News from Interior Design - 05/15/2010
The Sheikh of Chic
When Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah opened the first Villa Moda store in Kuwait in 1992, European luxury fashion houses balked at selling to a man who also happened to be a nephew of the country’s emir.
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News from Tonic - 05/14/2010
Starchitecture Helps Heal Cancer Patients
Research shows that physical surroundings can improve health, which is what makes the Maggie's Centre initiative so brilliant.
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News from Zawya - 05/12/2010
Big thinker sees Gulf in modern terms
10 May 2010 When it was first published at the height of the boom in 2007, Al-Manakh arrived with little fanfare.
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News from AsiaOne - 05/10/2010
China TV exec jailed for seven years for firework blaze
BEIJING, CHINA - A former top television executive was jailed for seven years Monday for his role in causing a massive blaze at China's new state television complex when a fireworks display went awry, prosecutors said.
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