News from The Daily Californian - 05/20/2010
Funding Approved for Art Museum's Relocation
After nearly half an hour of debate Wednesday, the UC Board of Regents "reluctantly" approved preliminary funding for the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive's new Downtown Berkeley location.
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 05/18/2010
Artful selection of architect makes statement
When stockbrokers buy futures, they follow research and hunches in search of a jackpot down the road. You can apply the same concept to architecture when cultural institutions cast the net for a designer who will deliver a first-rate building and the right... Architect - Business - Research - Architecture - Design
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 05/17/2010
Artful selection of architect makes statement
When stockbrokers buy futures, they follow research and hunches in search of a jackpot down the road. You can apply the same concept to architecture when cultural institutions cast the net for a designer who will deliver a first-rate building and the right... Architect - Research - Business - Architecture - Arts
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News from Scoop.co.nz - 05/17/2010
Klein Dytham Architecture—Tokyo Tales
Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein are the directors of Klein Dytham architecture (KDa), one of Japan’s most exciting young design firms. They studied together at the Royal College of Art in London, and in 1989 travelled to Tokyo where they found work with Toyo Ito.
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News from University of Queensland - 05/03/2010
Top international architects speak at UQ public lecture series
The 2010 Architecture Public Lecture Series ASIA PACIFIC continues to wow audiences with the talents and opinions of key local and international architects.
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News from The Daily Californian - 04/30/2010
Design Firm to Be Chosen in Museum Renovation
After considering 10 architecture firms in the design of a plan for the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive's new location, museum officials announced Tuesday that they have narrowed their decision to three firms.
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News from UC Berkeley NewsCenter - 04/29/2010
Three architecture firms to submit proposals for new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The campus has selected a trio of firms to submit plans for turning a former printing plant, in downtown Berkeley, into the future Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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News from UC Newsroom - 04/27/2010
Three firms in running for museum plans
The University of California, Berkeley, announced today (April 27) the selection of three architecture firms to submit design proposals for the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).
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News from Interior Design - 04/22/2010
Bottega Veneta Presents Winners of Design Competition at Milan Fair
The winning designs were Kentaro Fujimoto's Domestic Landscape of Intrecciato table, Ayami Takada's Origami side table, and Shima Suzuki's Tube with Inner Luxury modular table.
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News from The Daily Californian - 04/22/2010
Art Museum Officials Seek Design Architect
After discarding a design plan that was deemed too expensive, officials from the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are in the process of selecting an architecture firm to revitalize the museum's new Downtown location, the former UC Printing Plant.
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News from Independent - 04/20/2010
Condom architecture
Picture, for a moment, the buildings you really loathe – the ones you think are such a brutish affront to humane urban life that they should be flattened. The NatWest tower in London, perhaps? Or, if you want to think mendaciously big, what about the whole of the centre of Croydon? Now re-imagine them, but this time encased in giant condoms. You needn't be too shocked, because that's exactly ...
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News from Arts Journal - 04/20/2010
Berkeley Art Museum Is Shopping For An Architect (Again)
The museum "already traveled this path - in 2006, when it selected Toyo Ito to design a new home. The Japanese architect's response was seductive - an abstract egg crate with thin steel walls - but also prohibitively expensive.
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 04/20/2010
Berkeley Art Museum/PFA seeks proposals
Here's a surprise: SFMOMA isn't the only local cultural institution seeking an out-of-town architect to design its new home. There's also a "help wanted" sign at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, which is planning a move to the old University...
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 04/19/2010
Berkeley Art Museum/PFA seeks proposals
Here's a surprise: SFMOMA isn't the only local cultural institution seeking an out-of-town architect to design its new home. There's also a "help wanted" sign at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, which is planning a move to the old University...
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News from PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - 04/19/2010
American Academy Announces 2010 Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two hundred and twenty-nine leaders in the sciences, social sciences, the humanities, the arts, business and public affairs have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The new Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members announced today join one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. A center for ...
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News from The Star - 04/16/2010
For chocophiles, by chocophiles
A Singaporean chocolate lover takes his fixation to the next level by churning out chocolate bars in 100 different flavours and über-cool packaging.
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News from BBC News - 04/01/2010
Coming soon...
Is this the Doctor's new enemy or a 2012 sculpture?
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News from Independent - 03/31/2010
Jay Merrick: A meeting of minds, a monumental vision
The Orbit Tower reflects a meeting of two of the boldest minds in British art. Anish Kapoor's ability to create conceptually astonishing works is proven. Cecil Balmond's role is less well known, but he is the genie whose geometrical alchemy has influenced projects as diverse as Kapoor's 2002 Marsyas installation in Tate Modern, Daniel Libeskind's V&A Spiral, and Toyo Ito's Serpentine Gallery ...
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News from USA Today - 03/31/2010
Japanese architects win Pritzker Prize for art museums, fashion boutiques
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, praised for using everyday building materials to create ethereal structures, have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize
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News from The Japan Times - 03/29/2010
Tokyo pair win Pritzker prize in architecture
LOS ANGELES (AP) Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, praised for using everyday building materials to create ethereal structures that shelter flowing, dreamlike spaces, have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Sejima, 54, and Nishizawa, 44, join Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and Renzo Piano in receiving the top honor in the field in recognition of the art museums, university buildings and ...
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