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Stabilizing the Leaning Tower | |
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MIES, CLASSICAL MODERNIST In New York this summer, Mies van der Rohe seems to be everywhere, in addition to where you'll always find him, at his Seagram Building on Park Avenue. The "Mies in Berlin" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and "Mies in America" at the Whitney Museum of American Art bookend the work of one of the most celebrated Modern architects.
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CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE AWARDS At the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles in June, the American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC) handed out its annual kudos to architects and allied professionals. Six honor awards and nine merit awards were presented to recent projects, celebrating design excellence among the state's practitioners. Some of these are described below.
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UK CELEBRATES ARCHITECTURE WEEK The month of June, 2001 saw the start of the fifth annual Architecture Week in the United Kingdom, an initiative supported and managed by the Arts Council of England in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and endorsed by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).
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STABILIZING THE LEANING TOWER On June 16 2001, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy was officially reopened during a colorful ceremony that coincided with the feast of Saint Renieri, Pisa's patron saint.
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More Architecture News Visitors At Museum As Glass Shattered — The Age, 2001.0731Nights Out End Behind Bars For Architects — Hoover's Online, 2001.0731 New Church May Be the Biggest in West Africa — All Africa, 2001.0730 GSA Selects Finalists for the Design of the New Census Bureau Headquarters Office Complex — PR Newswire at Excite, 2001.0730 Jewish Museums Merging — San Francisco Chronicle, 2001.0726 Architect Who Created Museum Of Flight Dies — Seattle Times, 2001.0723 Italy To Keep Ethiopian Monument — BBC News, 2001.0720 Landscape Architect M. Meade Palmer Dies — Washington Post, 2001.0719 Trump Unveils High Hopes For Chicago Tower Venture Could Reclaim World's Tallest Building — USA Today, 2001.0719 Rogers Rejects Assembly HQ Verdict — BBC News, 2001.0718 Guardian Honors Mall by Curbing Number of Memorials — New York Times, 2001.0716 (registration required) Architects Vie To Design New Jacksonville Library — Florida Times-Union, 2001.0712 Olympics Will 'Destroy Old Beijing,' Critics Charge — Kyodo News, 2001.0712 Architect Gehry Hired To Design L.A. Media Complex — Reuters at Yahoo News, 2001.0711 Wind Engineer Dale Perry Dead at 69 After Falling Through Roof During Inspection Assignment — ENR, 2001.0710 Floor Collapses At Condo Construction Site — Yahoo News, 2001.0710
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