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SMALLER CHEAPER BETTER SCHOOL Do students learn better in smaller environments? A growing number of educators and architects think so, and in Federal Way, Washington, a few of them have created a school that reflects this conviction. Harry S. Truman High School is flexible enough to accommodate the "smaller is better" approach to education and innovative enough to win top honors from the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI).
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ROOTS AND BRANCHES Located in a quiet neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, yet near the busy Capitol Highway which connects downtown with its western suburbs, Hillsdale Branch Library occupies a transitional point between single-family homes to the north and a series of commercial buildings to the south.
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MODERN MOSQUE "It doesn't look like a mosque," said the Muslim woman when I asked for street directions to the Assyafaah Mosque in Singapore. Designed by Singapore-based Forum Architects, the mosque's architecture breaks with tradition. "It's modern," said the woman.
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More Architecture and Design Making Waves — The Age, 2005.0822A Touch of 'Indian-ness' Amid the Glass and Steel — New York Times, 2005.0822 Brick Patterns Bring a Recladding Job Together — AIArchitect, 2005.0822 VDTA Rocks with New Chicago Concert Pavilion — AIArchitect, 2005.0822 H3 Modernizes Baseball Shrine to Enhance Visitor Experience — AIArchitect, 2005.0822 Angry Box-Watchers Attack Auntie's 'Eyesore' — Scotsman Online, 2005.0821 Alpine House at Kew Revealed — World Architecture News, 2005.0817 For What They Are, Targets Work Visually in Sea of Similarity — San Francisco Chronicle, 2005.0816 Bow-Tie Plan Shapes Patient-Centric Hospital — AIArchitect, 2005.0815 Adding Glass-Box Minimalism to Midwestern Downtown — New York Times, 2005.0815 The Queen's Architect Comes to Town — New York Times, 2005.0814 Proposed Building's Modern Look Sparks Ire of Martinez Residents — San Francisco Chronicle, 2005.0812 Einhorn Yaffee Prescott’s Katzen Arts Center Really Performs — AIArchitect, 2005.0808 Foodie Heaven — Guardian Unlimited, 2005.0808 Reference Kit Helps Wood Work — Interior Design, 2005.0803 Hat Trick for the New Pompidou — Guardian Unlimited, 2005.0802 Home Is Where the Height Is — Los Angeles Times, 2005.0802 Nation’s First Affordable, Universal-Design Apartment Complex — AIArchitect, 2005.0801 Changing the Image of Technical Education through Design — AIArchitect, 2005.0801
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