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TWO COMPACT URBAN SCHOOLS A school on top of a parking garage might not initially sound appealing. A parking garage would be a bleak, unlovely place, an aesthetic bludgeon to hungry young minds. But that's where design comes in. The Gonzalo and Felicitias Mendez Fundamental Intermediate School in Santa Ana, California, is tucked behind a shopping mall, on top of a parking garage.
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BORROMINI AWARDS TO KLOTZ AND NOUVEL In June, 2001, Chilean architect Matthias Klotz won the first Francesco Borromini International Award for Young Architects. In a profession where many practitioners reach their full potential late in life, this award celebrates the promise and achievements of architects whose career is still young.
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MORE STAFF IN LESS SPACE Despite a wobbling economy, some U.S. companies are still experiencing explosive growth. Yet partly because of it, many growing companies are reluctant to take on additional space. Instead, they do all they can to squeeze more people into tighter confines, eventually stretching their building infrastructure beyond its limits.
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More Architecture and Design Desert City Plan Stirs Up Architectural Sandstorm — Scotsman Online, 2001.0724Foster's £30m LSE Library Unveiled — Architect's Journal, 2001.0723 Revenge Of The 'starchitects' — San Francisco Chronicle, 2001.0722 Can You Turn An Old Hall Into A Great Music Venue? — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.0722 The White House — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.0722 Triangle House Set to Stand Out — Moscow Times, 2001.0717 Red squares — Design Editorial at Guardian Unlimited, 2001.0716 Dream House With Alpine Views — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.0715 In Style And Content, It Towers Above The Rest — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.0715 Stonehenge: Is This The Solution? — Editorial at U.K. Telegraph, 2001.0714 Connecticut Firm Strives for Brass Ring — AIArchitect, 2001.0713 Edition Miss. Museum Unveils Gehry Project — AP at Yahoo News, 2001.0710 America Gets An Eyeful Of Britain's Blinking Bridge — Architects' Journal, 2001.0709 Phillies' New Stadium Design Is a Hometown Homerun — AIArchitect, 2001.0706 Edition Radical Look Rattles S.F.'s City Planners — San Francisco Chronicle, 2001.0705 Renovation Of Cork Building Is Opposed — Irish Times, 2001.0703 Right Park, But Wrong Place — Editorial at Philadelphia Inquirer, 2001.0701 In the Beginning, There Was Utopia — FAZ, 2001.0701
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