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SWISS RE TOWER BY FOSTER AND PARTNERS During construction, London's newest highrise conjured up many emotions from visitors and locals alike: here was a building that would bring a major change to the skyline. It became affectionately known as the "Gherkin," but was it worth it? Was it a white elephant?
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THREE POLSHEK PROJECTS One's memory of a physical place is a complex emotional and intellectual phenomenon, depending, as it does, on affect as well as on contextual appropriateness, human function, and constructive logic. Affect separated from these last three elements can result in idiosyncratic memorability — "art for art's sake."
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SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY Were the architects inspired by sculpture when they designed the idiosyncratic form of the Seattle Public Library? Were they perhaps influenced by the angularity of the nearby street sculpture, Vertebrae, by Henry Moore?
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More Architecture and Design End of an Era for an American Icon — CNN, 2005.0504Cooling Down on the Grass, 20 Stories Up — Columbia News, 2005.0503 Architect Builds Strength into Innovative Temporary Shelter — USA Today, 2005.0503 Holocaust History Museum: From Darkness to the Light — AIArchitect, 2005.0502 Better Science through Building Design — Boston Globe, 2005.0501 Museum Design Unifying, but Not Dazzling — Indianapolis Star, 2005.0501 Glass Wall, Visible Car Ramp Turn ‘Lemon into Lemonade’ — ENR, 2005.0425 Springfield’s New Lincoln Library and Museum — AIArchitect, 2005.0422 An Icon to Speed: Designing a NASCAR Museum — Mercury News, 2005.0422 Shade, but No Poetry — Australian, 2005.0422 Arena Dream Gets Wake-Up Call — Kansas City Star, 2005.0422 In Covington, Ascent Will Reach for the Sky — Cincinnati Enquirer, 2005.0419 An Expansion Gives New Life to an Old Box — New York Times, 2005.0415 For Act II, Architect Gets More Hands-On — New York Times, 2005.0411 New Condo Developments Are Launched on Boston's Wharves — Boston Globe, 2005.0410 'We Got Rid of the Shoe Box' — Guardian Unlimited, 2005.0410 New Classrooms for Older Campuses — New York Times, 2005.0410 Arena Site, Design Remain a Work in Progress — Kansas City Business Journal, 2005.0408 Armani to Design New York Flats for Africa-Israel — Ynetnews.com, 2005.0406
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