News from Architect Magazine - 03/15/2010
Rainbow of White: Richard Meier's Dazzling Designs
Mar. 14--The color white occasionally reaches iconic status, as seen in such cultural touchstones as the Beatles' "White Album," crisp Good Humor uniforms and the trademark suits of writer Tom Wolfe.
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News from The Buffalo News - 03/14/2010
Rainbow of white: Architect Richard Meier's dazzling designs 'reflect all the colors around us'
The color white occasionally reaches iconic status, as seen in such cultural touchstones as the Beatles' "White Album," crisp Good Humor uniforms and the trademark suits of writer Tom Wolfe.
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News from The Star-Ledger - 03/11/2010
'Teachers Village' project in Newark passes historic hurdle
Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerRon Beit will be developing property on Halsey Street in Newark called "Teachers Village at Four Corners," which would comprise seven new buildings, the rehabilitation of a nine-story shell and the demolition of eight largely vacant buildings dating...
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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 New York Times - 03/10/2010
Brooklyn Bridge Park as Lure for a New Condo
Are the outlines of an ambitious swing-set-and-slide area lifting sales at One Brooklyn Bridge Park?
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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 Architect Magazine - 03/05/2010
London Calling: KieranTimberlake Wins U.S. Embassy Competition
The Philadelphia firm of KieranTimberlake has been chosen by the State Department to design the new U.S. embassy in London. KieranTimberlake won the project over Morphosis, Richard Meier & Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed.
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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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