News from Fast Company Magazine - 03/10/2010
Photographer Andreas Gurksy's Ocean Series Was Shot From Space
Photographer Andreas Gursky is known for capturing massive, impossibly-large subjects, but for his latest project, not even the widest-angled lens on the planet would do. In a new show that opened last week at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Gurksy worked for the first time with satellite imagery as his raw materials for the series named Ocean. According to the exhibition text: "In their ...
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News from MSNBC - 03/10/2010
The demise of boutique bank Pali Capital
The swift demise of Pali Capital surprised industry observers. But as with many firms that suddenly fail, not everything at Pali was what it seemed.
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News from Reuters via Yahoo! News - 03/10/2010
Lawsuits, poker and the death of a boutique bank
In September 2008, as Lehman Brothers was breaking into a million pieces, a young investment bank was pushing up through the rubble.
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News from New York Review of Books - 03/08/2010
The New Tower of London
Martin Filler The winning design for the US Embassy in London, by KieranTimberlake (KieranTimberlake Architects) One of the most well-intentioned artistic initiatives ever undertaken by the United States government has turned out to be among its least successful: the embassy design program meant to present America’s best architectural face abroad. The latest evidence of this effort’s often ...
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News from Los Angeles Times - 03/06/2010
Andreas Gursky makes a long-distance connection
The German artist's large-scale satellite images make up 'Oceans' in the newly expanded Gagosian Gallery. If your knowledge of Andreas Gursky's enormous photographs is limited to meticulously detailed, vividly colored long shots of offices, factories and a 99 Cents Only store, you are in for a surprise.
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News from Art Daily - 03/05/2010
Andreas Gursky Inaugurates Gagosian's Newly Expanded Beverly Hills Gallery
Andreas Gursky, Ocean II, 2010. Chromogenic print, 133 7/8 x 98 3/16 x 2 1/2 inches framed (340.2 x 249.4 x 6.4cm) © Andreas Gursky / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
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News from Marketwire - 03/04/2010
San Jose and Dublin, Ireland Today Kick Off the 24th Anniversary of Their Sister City Relationship at Irish Week ...
Business Development, Film, Sports and Cuisine Highlight Delegation's Visit ; Founder and Executive Director of San Jose Conservation Corps, Robert Hennessy, to Be Honored at Irish Week Finale: the Annual Spirit of Ireland Gala
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News from amNewYork - 03/03/2010
Urbanite
The building described as the city’s skinniest home is back on the market. The 9-½-foot-wide, three-story home is for rent, after it sold to much publicity in late January.
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News from WRCB Chattanooga - 03/03/2010
Firefighters Honored for Their Bravery
The four were honored for their heroic work in the fire that claimed the lives of the two young children.
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News from amNewYork - 03/02/2010
Urbanite
Brownstone Brooklyn, meet Superfund Brooklyn. In slapping the toxic label on the Gowanus Canal Tuesday, the EPA confirmed what everybody knows about the 1.8-mile waterway: It’s a toxic mess. But the Bloomberg administration fought to avoid the designation and its stigma.
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News from New York Daily News - 03/02/2010
The rooftop pools of Beverly Hills are best spots for star-gazing, on Oscar night or any night
The best spots to observe the supernovas of the cinema may be from a roof deck at a Beverly Hills hotel.
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News from Scoop.co.nz - 03/01/2010
US Announces Winner of London Embassy Design Comp
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy.
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News from Art Daily - 03/01/2010
Daylight Architect, James Carpenter, Honored With EUR100,000 Award
©David Sundberg. COPENHAGEN.- James Carpenter, the New York-based architect, sculptor and designer of daylight, is this year's recipient of the VILLUM and VELUX FOUNDATION'S Daylight and Building Component Award.
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News from New York Daily News - 03/01/2010
Rooftop pools are best spots for Oscar-night star-gazing
When a galaxy of stars light up the red carpet at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood for the 2010 Academy Awards on March 7, the best spots to observe these supernovas of the cinema may be from a roof deck at a Beverly Hills hotel.
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News from Architectural Record - 03/01/2010
Entries Due this Month for Holocaust Memorial Design Competition
The entry deadline is fast approaching for an international competition to design a Holocaust Memorial for the Atlantic City Boardwalk, in New Jersey.
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News from PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - 03/01/2010
Daylight Architect Honored With EUR100,000 Award
James Carpenter, the New York-based architect, sculptor and designer of daylight, is this year's recipient of the VILLUM and VELUX FOUNDATION'S Daylight and Building Component Award.
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News from St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 02/28/2010
Jammin' in LA
A little planning can route you around traffic and to the cool shops and sights of Los Angeles.
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News from New York Post - 02/28/2010
NY city blocks
Blame it on writer’s block. Late one night in a wintry Berlin, Germany, missing his hometown of New York, illustrator and children’s book author Christoph Niemann started noodling with his children’s toys. The result, “I Lego NY” (Abrams Images), is a witty series of odes to the...
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News from Londonist - 02/25/2010
US Embassy Exhibition @ New London Architecture
Resistance is futile. After hearing that architectural models of the Borg cube future US Embassy and the runner-up designs are on show at NLA, we simply had to pop by. Seeing the four options side-by-side, we have to admit that the winning KieranTimberlake cube is pretty powerful (although it's best side is perhaps not the one pictured). The view is reinforced when you inspect the high ...
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News from WNYC New York Public Radio - 02/25/2010
2 Minutes With...Artist Edith Stephen
The largest housing complex for artists in the world is in the far West Village, and it's celebrating the big 4-0 this year. "Westbeth" takes up an entire city block that was once the former Bell Lab....
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