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REDISCOVERING LOS ANGELES WALK STREETS Grant Kirkpatrick is not one of LA's architecture fire-breathers, and he hasn't made headlines by designing futuristic blobs. Instead, the architect has done something far more useful: raised the visual standards and the civility of a waterfront neighborhood in Manhattan Beach. Into an otherwise cluttered beachfront known as the "walk streets," Kirkpatrick has introduced clarity and human scale, while reminding both homeowners and passersby of the uniquely public nature of the pedestrian-only streets.
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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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More Architecture and Design Pola Art Museum in Japan Wins Benedictus Prize — Dupont Benedictus press release, 2003.0508Orange Studio Causes Neighborhood Ruckus — Metropolis, 2003.05 New 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
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