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Fashion Meets Food at the Brasserie 8-1/2 | |
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Illuminating Foster | |
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New Museum Celebrates the American Fleet | |
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FASHION MEETS FOOD AT THE BRASSERIE 8-1/2 The debut of the new "Brasserie 8-1/2" in New York was attended with all of the usual hype and star power one might expect of a fashionable midtown Manhattan restaurant. Even before its official opening in mid-July, 8-1/2 was the setting of the chic, after-screening party for the movie "Butterfly," thrown by Gwyneth Paltrow. Can you imagine all of this in the basement of a 1974 Gordon Bunshaft building?
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ILLUMINATING FOSTER The young German artist Thomas Emde, whose medium is light and color, has just added the finishing touches to a Norman Foster building. The Commerzbank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is said to be the world's first "ecological high-rise." With Emde's light installation, the special characteristics of the building are now as visible at night as they are during the day.
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NEW MUSEUM CELEBRATES THE AMERICAN FLEET New York's new Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum Visitors Center, by the architecture firm Suk Design Group LLP was constructed in a brief nine months. Despite the challenges of building on the waterfront, it was completed this summer just in time to celebrate the Tall Ships 2000 visit to the northeastern seaboard.
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More Architecture and Design HIGH TIMES: San Francisco's two new towers are transforming the skyline, but lack distinction — San Francisco Chronicle, 2000.0927A Snoop at Bilbao — The Atlantic Monthly, October 2000 Foster to plan £40m racecourse — This Is London, 2000.0920
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