News from Chicago Tribune - 02/03/2010
Stalled Spire hurts developer back home
Chicago Spire developer Garrett Kelleher's effort to build the nation's tallest building in Chicago is threatening the viability of one of his Ireland-based firms.
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News from Chicago Tribune - 02/03/2010
Stalled Spire threatens a sister company
Chicago Spire developer Garrett Kelleher's effort to build the nation's tallest building in Chicago is threatening the viability of one of his Ireland-based firms.
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 01/29/2010
The Architecture of Santiago Calatrava
Spanish starchitect Santiago Calatrava's portfolio is an eclectic one. He's designed massive infrastructure projects like the recently-inaugurated train station in Liege, Belgium, iconic arts venues like the opera house in Tenerife, lyrical bridges in Dallas, California, and Holland and, soon, sets for the New York City ballet. Often, his designs begin with a raft of watercolor drawings, and ...
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News from PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - 01/28/2010
Street Seen on View at Milwaukee Art Museum
A unique and pivotal moment in American history is explored in Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography 1940-1959, on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum January 30 through April 25, 2010.
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News from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 01/26/2010
Quad/Graphics acquires Canadian rival, announces plans to go public
In a world of iPhones and Kindles, Quad/Graphics Inc. is betting again on the future of paper - buying a Canadian rival in a deal that will more than double its size and create the second-largest commercial printer in North America.
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 01/25/2010
How Santiago Calatrava's Buildings Marry Engineering With Biology
CALATRAVA AT HIS PARK AVENUE TOWN HOUSE.. He owns three, actually: one serves as his office, another as his home, and the third houses two of his four children. | Portrait by Martien Mulder One of three Calatrava bridges over the Hoofdvaart in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands (2004). Bridges are one of his obsessions. He has built some 40 of them. | Photograph by Alan Karchmer Santiago Calatrava's ...
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 01/21/2010
Spanish Starchitect Calatrava Tackles Designing Sets for NYC Ballet
Santiago Calatrava has often been called the most lyrical of the current crop of starchitects. Today, the New York City Ballet announced that it will give the Spaniard a chance to apply his architectural and engineering skills to the most lyrical of the performing arts. NYCB's ballet master Peter Martins has invited Caltrava to design several multi-functional stage sets for four world-premiere ...
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News from St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 01/20/2010
Parking garages: beauties or beasts?
Building Blocks lacks a travel budget but if it had the money, a trip to Washington would be on the agenda. Next Monday evening at the National Building Museum, the editor of “Architect” will lead a program on the most unloved of structures: the parking garage.
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News from Dallas Morning News - 01/17/2010
Harley-Davidson Museum is hog heaven
MILWAUKEE - Unofficially, the dress code at the Harley-Davidson Museum calls for black and orange. When my friends met me in our hotel's lobby, they were appalled. My stylish slacks and cotton blouse would never do. They handed me a black Harley T-shirt and sent me back to my room to change.
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News from Dallas Morning News - 01/17/2010
Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Museum is hog heaven
MILWAUKEE - Unofficially, the dress code at the Harley-Davidson Museum calls for black and orange. When my friends met me in our hotel's lobby, they were appalled. My stylish slacks and cotton blouse would never do. They handed me a black Harley T-shirt and sent me back to my room to change.
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News from The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - 01/14/2010
Architect Frank Gehry withdraws from plan to build Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem
“We are no longer involved in it,” said Craig Webb, the design partner in charge of the project for the firm of Gehry Partners.
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News from Arts Journal - 01/13/2010
NY City Ballet Spring Season To Feature Big Premieres, Salonen, Calatrava
"Ballets by the choreographers Melissa Barak, Mauro Bigonzetti, Peter Martins, Wayne McGregor, Benjamin Millepied, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon will all have their world premieres.
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News from GlobeSt.com - 12/31/2009
QUICK POLL
CHICAGO-The market in Chicago, like much of the country, doesn’t have many high notes to look back on as the year comes to an end. 2009 was a year not defined by large leases or high-priced sales.
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News from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 12/30/2009
Many left mark with abundant talent
Great minds do not all think alike, or at least not about the same things. In Wisconsin, some pretty great ideas came from residents who died during 2009.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 12/26/2009
Enlightened age for the arts in Britain is cast into shadow
It is a space dedicated to the fruits of patronage. Against whitewashed walls and beneath a startling glass canopy, the Leonardos and Donatellos, the choir screens and sculptures, the tapestries and caskets speak to an age of extraordinary wealth and aesthetic ambition.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 12/26/2009
Public arts to enter age of austerity
A decade of unprecedented investment in galleries and museums is ending and a return to the dark days of closures, entry charges and pandering to the familiar looms It is a space dedicated to the fruits of patronage. Against whitewashed walls and beneath a startling glass canopy, the Leonardos and Donatellos, the choir screens and sculptures, the tapestries and caskets speak to an age of ...
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 12/22/2009
NYC High Line Designers Turn Their Eyes to Downtown Cleveland
How do you revitalize a downtown area that's become a ghost town? With a stunning new park. If you've ever been to Cleveland, you know the downtown area is a forbidding, pedestrian desert. The main public space, Public Square, is no better--it's a wind-scarred, 10-acre expanse flanked by skyscrapers. But that could all change, thanks to a series of brilliant redesigns proposed by James Corner ...
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News from CBC Calgary - 12/21/2009
City hall 'minutia' won't carry into 2010: mayor
Some of the controversies that rippled thorough city hall this year won't have a lasting impact, said Calgary's mayor in a year-end interview with CBC News.
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News from CBS 2 Chicago - 12/21/2009
Union Investment Funds Aren't Interested In Spire
Some labor unions offered to help finance construction of the Chicago Spire condo tower to get union members back to work. But four investment funds affiliated with the unions say they aren't interested in the project.
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News from GlobeSt.com - 12/21/2009
QUICK POLL
Have Commercial-Asset Values Hit Bottom? CHICAGO-Union officials have said they won’t be able to dig the Chicago Spire out of debt. Earlier this month, a report in the Wall Street Journal , stated a number of unions may be banning together to resurrect the $1 billion project.
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