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TOTALLY TUBULAR KOOLHAAS As a commuter train roars into a college campus in Chicago, its noise is suddenly muffled when it enters a stainless steel tunnel that sits atop the new student center. The tube and the building below it are the work of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his firm, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). The school is the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), still bearing the stamp of its mid-20th century modernist origins.
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SHOPPING JAPANESE STYLE Despite dips in the economy over the past decade, Japan maintains a strong commitment to urban development. Retail construction appears to flourish. And unlike the boxy shopping centers that blight U.S. suburban and rural landscapes with their featureless design and sprawling parking lots, some recent Japanese developments set examples for combining dynamic design with urban sensibilities.
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CONCEPTUALLY IN BETWEEN Architects and glass artists in Portland, Oregon collaborated in designing and building chandeliers in a 2001 project called Multiplied Light. This year, architectural critic Randy Gragg curated a second experiment: to form glass and steel into architectural screens and to explore what he presents as a fundamental condition of architecture, "betweenness." — Editor
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More Architecture and Design Colorado Architecture Projects Honored — Denver Business Journal, 2003.1124A Dutch Treat: Rem Koolhaas in Berlin — Deutsche Welle, 2003.1119 Shipping Containers Show Promise for Living Space — ENR, 2003.1117 AIA Fort Worth Honors Seven Projects in Texas — AIArchitect, 2003.1114 Lunchbox for Art — New York Times, 2003.1114 Berlin 'Waschmaschine' Wins Architecture Prize — Guardian Unlimited, 2003.1112 Our Man with His Head in the Cloud — IC Liverool, 2003.1112 UW's William H. Gates Hall Projects Spirit of Openness — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2003.1110 AIA South Atlantic Recognizes Regional Design Excellence — AIArchitect, 2003.1107 In Japan, Rethinking the Shoe Box — New York Times, 2003.1106 Holyrood Blockbuster in the Making — Scotsman Online, 2003.1028 The McMansion Next Door — Newsweek, 2003.1027
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