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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 State Designers' Nutrihouse Project Takes Flight — Capital Times, 2005.0511Lakefront Home Guided by Nature — mlive.com, 2005.0510 University of Alberta Awards Sturgess Prize for Skylight Design — Canadian Architect, 2005.0510 Native American and Western Heritage Celebrated at the Eiteljorg — AIArchitect, 2005.0509 Building on Sacred Ground — New York Times, 2005.0508 A Severely Hip Concert Hall — Los Angeles Times, 2005.0508 A Museum Addition That Refuses to Be Boxed In — Washington Post, 2005.0508 New Museum Honors Arab-American Culture — Detroit News, 2005.0504 End of an Era for an American Icon — CNN, 2005.0504 Cooling Down on the Grass, 20 Stories Up — Columbia News, 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
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