News from Architectural Record - 03/09/2010
A Long-Awaited Groundbreaking for Hadid’s Broad Museum
Roughly a year behind its original schedule, the Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will break ground on March 16 on the East Lansing campus of Michigan State University.
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 03/09/2010
Design Award Upset: Small Chilean Studio Beats the Starchitects With Affordable Housing Project
2010's Brit Insurance Design Award for Architecture went to Elemental's affordable, and adaptable, housing project in Mexico, skipping over big shots like Zaha Hadid and James Corner. Architecture had its own Oscars on Monday, and just as cinephiles everywhere sighed with relief when The Hurt Locker beat out "FernGully: Part 2 ," those following the Brit Insurance Design Awards cheered the ...
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News from The Sacramento Bee - 03/08/2010
The Week Ahead
Five events that will shape Sacramento-area news
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News from The Sacramento Bee - 03/07/2010
The Week Ahead: Five things that will shape the news in Our Region
El Dorado Irrigation District board members will consider offering an early retirement incentive program to reduce the 2010 budget.
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News from Interior Design - 03/04/2010
Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University Underway Next March
The ground breaking is set for March 16 and construction is expected to last 23 months, with the museum opening in 2012.
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News from Art Daily - 03/02/2010
Glasgow's Museum of Transport to Close in April
Museum of Transport interior. GLASGOW.- Glasgow's much loved Museum of Transport will close its doors for the final time on 18 April 2010. By the time it shuts, it will have welcomed well over 10 million visitors since it moved to its current location in 1988.
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News from Arts Journal - 03/01/2010
The Secrets To MAXXI's Success
In Rome, where Zaha Hadid's MAXXI awaits its May opening, "any building of such size and exalted cultural purpose must justify its presence in the company of world-famous monuments to imperial and papal glory.
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News from Bloomberg - 03/01/2010
Burj Khalifa’s Global Cousins Rise, Revamp, Disappear: Overview
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- The improbably thin shaft of the 828-meter (2,717-foot) Burj Khalifa, a tour de force of architecture and engineering, is a reflective-glass icon of Dubai’s triumphant arrival on the world scene. Or it’s a towering monument to easy-money hubris. Take your pick.
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News from The Cincinnati Enquirer - 02/28/2010
Fairey show overflow heartens CAC
A capacity crowd of 2,400 attended the opening of Los Angeles street artist Shepard Fairey's solo exhibition, "Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand," at the Contemporary Arts Center on Feb. 19.
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News from Bloomberg - 02/27/2010
McQueen’s Last Show, Sporty BMW Vie for Design Award (Update1)
Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Alexander McQueen , the British fashion designer who died from hanging at his home last week, is in the running for a London design award.
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News from The Art Newspaper - 02/24/2010
Shock appointment of anti-modernist to Venice Biennale
london. The appointment of Vittorio Sgarbi, the celebrity art critic and polemicist, as curator of ...
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News from Harmony Central - 02/22/2010
Martin Guitar Donates $20,000 One-of-a-kind Guitar to Christie's For Green Auction
In tune with Martin Guitar's environmental philosophy, C.F. Martin & Co. has donated a rare 000 12-fret Peter Cree Certified Wood Guitar (photo attached) to Christie's International, the world's leading art business, for their upcoming "A Bid to Save the Earth" Green Auction.
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News from Architectural Record - 02/22/2010
London Zooming Toward 2012 Games
As Vancouverites enjoy the wealth of new venues realized for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Londoners are beginning to see a host of sporting venues, transit links, and other facilities spring up for the 2012 Summer Games.
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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 Evening Standard - 02/19/2010
London Fashion Week opens with tributes to 'leading light' Alexander McQueen
The Prime Minister's wife, Sarah Brown , who officially opened the event, paid tribute to the designer as hundreds from the industry listened with bowed heads.
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News from EveningTimes Online - 02/18/2010
Herald Scotland
April will mark the end of an era when Glasgow’s hugely popular Transport Museum closes its doors for the final time.
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News from Times of Malta - 02/18/2010
McQueen nominated for top design award
The late fashion designer Alexander McQueen has been nominated for a top British award. Mr McQueen, who was found dead at his luxury London home last week in an apparent suicide, is shortlisted for his spring and summer 2010 fashion collection.
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News from Arts Journal - 02/18/2010
Contemplating The (Guggenheim's) Void
"As part of its ongoing 50th anniversary celebration, the museum invited nearly 200 architects, artists and designers to propose fanciful new uses for the 90-foot-high rotunda of its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building."
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News from Independent - 02/17/2010
Learning curve: Sanaa's spectacular floating Lausanne library rockets them into architecture's premier league
In Lausanne yesterday, the feted Japanese architects Kazuo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – aka Sanaa – became the profession's anointed artists of the floating world. Their new SF110m (£65m) building is a fluid exercise in glass and concrete. It is called the Rolex Learning Centre. Yet visually, it is the reverse – a kind of unlearning centre where the doors of perception melt into a soft vitreous ...
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News from The Cincinnati Enquirer - 02/17/2010
Bloggers: Don't mess with Cincinnati
Editor Tom Callinan, local bloggers and many others are incensed over a recent Vanity Fair depiction of Cincinnati in a story about the Creation Museum - and they responded in kind.
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