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ARCHITECTURE CANADA Canada's architects and designers, according to Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, "engage in the continual dialogue between nature and intense urban modernity and offer solutions that range from the whimsical to the visionary. Most remarkably, we see in their work the emergence of a national style that strives, through excellence and innovation, towards the vigorous cultivation of beauty." Here are two of the 12 recipients of the Governor General’s 2002 Medals in Architecture, recognizing excellence in the art of architecture. — Editor
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VILLA MODA'S INTERNATIONAL CHIC Surrounded by shipwrecks from the Persian Gulf War of the early 1990s, an unused dockland area on the outskirts of Kuwait City is an unlikely setting for one of the Middle East's most luxurious fashion stores. But adjacent to industrial shipping containers is a place where Kuwait's wealthy come to buy international chic.
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HOLL ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL AT MINNESOTA Steven Holl has described the task of designing an architecture school as one of the most difficult of architectural commissions. "Aspiring to design a building which can add to the educational experience of architecture," he says, "is comparable to the problem of a brain surgeon operating on his own brain."
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More Architecture and Design Orange Studio Causes Neighborhood Ruckus — Metropolis, 2003.05New Tacoma Art Museum Celebrates City around It — Seattle Times, 2003.0427 A Heritage Rediscovered, Then Remade — New York Times, 2003.0423 Shaking up the Cityscape — Japan Times, 2003.0421 The House That Bilbao Didn't Build — New York Times, 2003.0420 GAD Architects BMW Expedition Center — Arc Space, 2003.0414 Architects Employ Conventional Wisdom — AIArchitect, 2003.0411 Aunty Gets a Severe Dressing Down — Sydney Morning Herald, 2003.0331 The Pentagon's Inaccessible Memorial. — Opinion at Slate, 2003.0327 Building L.A.'s Disney Hall Has Been a Wild Ride — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2003.0325
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