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SMALL FIRM - GLOBAL REACH From offices in a nicely restored old house just a few doors from where Mark Twain lived in Hartford, Connecticut, the firm of Tai Soo Kim Partners has been creating contextually sensitive modern architecture in local, regional, and global markets for over thirty years.
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SCHOUWBURG PLEIN CHALLENGES ROTTERDAM In the Netherlands, "West 8" refers to the predominant wind direction and its force that blows over the lowlands. "West 8" is also the name of a design firm that seeks to negate the distinction between engineering and design and to diffuse the already artificial boundaries between landscape architecture, urban planning, and architecture.
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A IS FOR APPLE...NO MORE Book Review: Arches to Zigzags: An Architecture ABC, by Michael J. Crosbie, photography by Steve and Kit Rosenthal. Harry N. Abrams., Inc., 2000, ISBN 0-8109-4218-6.
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ISRAEL'S ARCHITECTURE OF HOPE It was born in Germany. It flourished in Tel Aviv. The Bauhaus modernist movement saw light with the birth of the Weimar Republic, then it was extinguished in Germany with the demise of the republic. The Bauhaus ideas, expressed mainly in architecture, were socially, economically, artistically, and technologically progressive. And they were anathema to the totalitarian, anti-humanistic Nazi regime. The Bauhaus school was therefore closed soon after the Nazis' rise to power, and its proponents persecuted.
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More Building Culture Japan's Modern Take on Tradition — Washington Post, 2000.1209Eiffel Tower To Keep its Sparkles — AP at Yahoo, 2000.1208 Is skyscraper's height claim a tall tale? — Seattle's Smith Tower, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2000.1205 Rock, paper, vision — Boston Globe, 2000.1130 Group saves Wright's only Prairie-style house in Ohio — CNN Style, 2000.1130 Not Nelson's Obelisk — James Burke, Scientific American, 2000.12
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