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DESIGN REVIEW ON REVUE "Private Jokes Public Places," a play by Oren Safdie, will be premiering October 12-28, 2001 at the Malibu Stage Company. Here is a short preview of the play. Setting: Classroom in a school of architecture
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PENTAGON BATTERED BUT FIRM On September 11, when an American Airlines Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon, home of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), about 20,000 people were at work in this, the largest office building in the world. Yet according to the DoD casualty update on October 1, only 125 Pentagon employees were killed along with the 64 from the fated airliner.
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REBUILDING IN NEW YORK It has been just over two weeks since terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center led to the collapse of the landmark twin towers. To varying degrees, and for those who can manage it, the routines of Manhattan have restarted. The city, in its myriad ways, is going about the work of going back to work.
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BEYOND DISASTER In our second week since the terrorist disaster in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, emergency crews continue to work on rescue and recovery, families, friends, a nation, and the world mourn their losses, and most of the U.S. struggles toward normalcy in our daily lives.
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More Architecture News Get World's Best Designers To Plan New NYC Landmark — Denver Post, 2001.1007Charles Fights City Of Skyscrapers — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.1007 Tadao Ando Scoops US Art Institute Project — Architects' Journal, 2001.1005 Savage Design Group's Office Space Wins First Place in ASID/Houston Chronicle Competition — Free Realtime, 2001.1004 AIA Announces World Trade Center Memorial Fund — Architectural Record, 2001.1003 Architect Prize Goes To Designer Of Working Environments — Helsinki Sanomat, 2001.1003 Urban Interest Groups Representing Wide Spectrum Convene to Form a Coalition for Action — Architecture Research Institute, Inc., 2001.1002 UK Big Guns Dig In For Downturn — Architects' Journal, 2001.1004 SOM Wins Census Bureau Headquarters — Archibot, 2001.1002 GSA Chooses Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to Design Suitland Census Headquarters — Newswire at Excite, 2001.1002 Empire State Building Reopens — BBC News, 2001.0929 An Artful Symbol Reopens — Los Angeles Times, 2001.0928 Postmodern Architect Michael Graves Chosen To Design Institute Expansion — Star Tribune, 2001.0927 All Hope Lost For NY Victims' Relatives — BBC News, 2001.0927 China Still Follows High-Rise Ambitions — Asia Times, 2001.0927 Industry Woes End Pritzker Tower Plan — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0926 Architects, Planners and Residents Wonder How to Fill the Hole in the City — New York Times, 2001.0926 (registration required) Cambridge Urges Harvard to Donate — AP at Architecture Guide, 2001.0925
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