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HOUSING BY HOLL A new dormitory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seems tailor-made for the school's super-geek culture. The building by Steven Holl has been compared variously to a giant Rubik's Cube and a 1950s computer punch card.
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PLAYING UPON THE STAGE "All the world's a stage," William Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It, but if he were performing in the 21st century, he'd probably take advantage of recent innovations in indoor theater design. In the spirit of the Elizabethan bard, a new building at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland resets the standard for flexibility in repertory theaters.
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PUEBLO LEGORRETA How can architecture be contemporary and timeless at the same time? Ricardo Legorreta offers an answer in his design of the Zocalo condominium community in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The name of the development is Spanish for "town square," and its site plan reflects that quality. Zocalo is organized in eight or nine clusters of "casitas," as Legorreta refers to the units. The casitas face open squares or small courtyards that reinforce a sense of community.
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More Architecture and Design Architects Compete to Give Liverpool's Waterfront Extra Grace — Guardian Unlimited, 2002.1112Jun Aoki's Louis Vuitton — ARC Space, 2002.1111 Renzo Piano's High Museum and Woodruff Arts Center — ARC Space, 2002.1111 Scaling the Heights of School Design — BBC News, 2002.1102 House's Design Climbs a Hill toward the Sky — Michigan Live, 2002.1031 Concrete Dreams: Actual Museums with Virtual Art — New York Times, 2002.1028 The Fusion Thing — CounterPunch, 2002.1026 Two University of Toronto Profs 9/11 Memorial Finalists — National Post, 2002.1021 Crossroad of the Gods — Guardian Unlimited, 2002.1021 MIT's New Dorm is Extraordinary, Inside and Out — Boston Globe, 2002.1020
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