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DIFFERENT LOOKS FOR BOOKS Our historically romantic notion of the library is that of mellow book-lined rooms creating discrete places for reading, browsing, and study: the book defining the architecture. Such a mental image is valid for good reason. The book defining the space of architecture has a long history.
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SUSTAINING SYDNEY SPACES A group of office workers in Sydney, Australia comes face to face with history every day. When entering their new building, they pass by an extraordinary four-story-high raw sandstone wall. It is the remains of a trench that convict laborers dug by hand for the installation of a 19th-century gasworks. Now that the site has been redeveloped, the wall is preserved as a major feature in an eight-story atrium.
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More Architecture and Design Building New Kind of Hospitals — CNN, 2004.0818New Federal Courthouse Opening in Seattle — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2004.0816 New Police Station Protects and Serves Community — AIArchitect, 2004.0816 Home Showcase: Geometry and Open Vistas Rule — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2004.0815 Hangar with a Difference — Star Online, 2004.0815 New Port City Building a Nod to Market Square's Past — Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News, 2004.0814 Gardens in the Air Where the Rail Once Ran — New York Times, 2004.0812 Children's Hospital Supports the Whole Family — Health Facilities Management, 2004.0811 'Spoiled' Energy Workers Packing into Cubicles — Houston Chronicle, 2004.0808 Architects Pack Inventive Houses into Small Sites — Detroit Free Press, 2004.0808 McDonald's Chickens Out on New Design — Chicago Tribune, 2004.0808 Designer Development Debuts in Wainscott — Newsday, 2004.0805 Forest Toilet Design Earns Praise — BBC News, 2004.0803 Pugh + Scarpa Solve Film-Editing Puzzle in LA — AIArchitect, 2004.0802 A Creation in Concrete — Herald Tribune, 2004.0801 Portable Furniture Has Not Gone Out of Style — Los Angeles Times, 2004.0801 Remaking Tracks: Four Plans to Transform the High Line — Newsday, 2004.0729 An Inner Sanctum, Out under the Sky — Los Angeles Times, 2004.0729 New Music Library Opens at UC Berkeley — UC Berkeley News, 2004.0728 Siamak Hariri Gives Architectural Expression to Baha’i Faith — Metropolis, 2004.0726 Townhouses in the Sky — Oyster Bay Enterprise-Pilot, 2004.0723 Live/Work Oasis in Vancouver, British Columbia — Canadian Architect, 2004.07
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