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PORTLAND CELEBRATES ARCHITECTURE Once a year, in many American cities, architects set aside a week to celebrate the built environment and to share their passion for it with the general public. This so-called "Architecture Week," (no relation to the on-line magazine) also gives the profession an opportunity to further its own education and to honor peers for their accomplishments.
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A CONCERT HALL RESTORED Severance Hall, although a beautiful 1930s-vintage neo-classical building, was less well known than its primary occupant: the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted for many years by George Szell. Over time, the world-class symphony grew in fame, while the building suffered from a series of misguided "renovations."
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HIGH-RISE HOUSING IN INDIA For over 40 years, architect Charles Correa has been designing public housing and other major buildings for cities in his native India. In this developing country where the urban population is growing twice as fast as the rural, the inventive, award-winning architect, planner, activist, and theoretician has adapted the language of modern architecture to create low-tech and low-cost yet humane habitats.
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More Architecture News London Eye shortlisted for architecture prize — Independent (UK), 2000.1017'Lost' Fixtures Surface on Web — ENR, 2000.1016 Pompidou architect to design New York Times' new headquarters — Agence France-Presse, 2000.1013
Renzo Piano to design New York Times building
— CNN Style, 2000.1013. The fourty story tower near Times Square will be Piano's first building in New York.
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