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Sioux City Orpheum Restoration | |
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POSTCARD FROM TURKESTAN Dear ArchitectureWeek, While in Kazakstan on my round-the-world bicycle tour, I visited the Hodja Ahmed Yasavi Mausoleum, one of the country's architectural gems. Surrounded by desert and low, rough, mud-brick buildings, the green tiled dome shimmers above the city of Turkestan.
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IN SEARCH OF LOUIS KAHN Film review: My Architect by Nathaniel Kahn, 2003. "My Architect" is a tale of a son in search of his father — and in search of the private Louis I. Kahn. The two-hour documentary takes us to various built works of the famous American architect, from the Richards Medical Center in Philadelphia to the Capital Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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SIOUX CITY ORPHEUM RESTORATION The Orpheum Theatre in Sioux City, Iowa was once a grand vaudeville and movie palace. Designed by the famous Chicago architects Rapp and Rapp, it opened in 1927 and boasted spectacular chandeliers, a gold leaf covered dome, and the grandest of lobbies. Over the decades, the theater suffered numerous insensitive remodels but has recently returned spectacularly to life thanks to a dedicated team of restoration expert and craftspeople.
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More Building Culture More A/E Firms Shift Health Care Costs to Workers — ZweigWhite press release, 2004.0107Maxwell Starkman Dead at 82 — Los Angeles Times, 2004.0105 Irish Buildings Join World 'Under Threat' List — Scotsman Online, 2004.0105 The Flawed Geniuses of Modernism — Financial Times, 2004.0105 'I Can Rebuild City with Mud and Barbed Wire,' Says Architect — Independent Digital, 2004.0104 Design Scenes Enliven Berlin for Berliners and Visitors — Boston Globe, 2004.0104 A Large Cast-Iron Remnant of SoHo's Artist Days — New York Times, 2004.0104 Stretching the Limits — Chicago Tribune, 2004.0103 AEC Job Search Strategies for Government Employees — AEC WorkForce, 2004.0102 Learning to Build Mosques, and Maybe Some Bridges — New York Times, 2003.1231 Behind a Graceful Spire, Science, Art and Passion — New York Times, 2003.1230 Guide Traces Miami Buildings — Miami Herald, 2003.1230 Architecture Panorama: Once around the Park — New York Times, 2003.1230 Shame on the City, But Kudos to the 'Burbs — Opinion at Vancouver Sun, 2003.1229 Reaching for the Sky — US News, 2003.1229 Gehry: `I'm Just an Architect' — New Jersey Times, 2003.1229 In the 1880s, the Nation's First Cancer Hospital — New York Times, 2003.1228 Fading Ladies? — Chicago Tribune, 2003.1228 The House that Open-Mindedness Built — Chicago Tribune, 2003.1228 A Grand Restoration — Boston Globe, 2003.1227 2003 Brought Profusion of Home and Design Books — Sun Herald, 2003.1227 Three Gems in the Boros — New York Post, 2003.1227 A 'Starchitect' is Born — National Post, 2003.1227 Academic Ruins — Chicago Tribune, 2003.1226 Piecing Together a Vibrant City — Journal Sentinel, 2003.1225 Shining Restoration of Cathedral Window - or Bust — Guardian Unlimited, 2003.1224 Winning Architect Has Designs on Holloway — Guardian Unlimited, 2003.1223 Cal Poly Architecture Department To Host Design Conference — CalPoly News Release, 2003.1222 High Rises and McMansions Jeopardizing History — Opinion at Miami Herald, 2003.1221 Wellington's Transport Planning Unsustainable — Scoop, 2003.1219
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