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WHERE PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT Blacksmithing is such a fundamental craft that in French, the familiar proverb, "practice makes perfect," takes the form, "c'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron," or literally in English, "it's by forging that one becomes a blacksmith." — Editor
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HIGH-METAL TOWER A crisp, subtly articulated new form has risen among the towers of New York. The Helena, a 580-unit apartment building designed by FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS, formerly Fox & Fowle Architects, brings elegant design and sustainable technologies to a building type often underserved in both these regards.
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HOUSE OF PLASTIC The designs of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma critically engage the materiality of architecture in order to challenge its usual meanings, and in so doing, to thwart the emergence of architecture as an object. As he has shown in many of his projects, Kuma is determined to "dissolve" the materials that he uses, or to choose materials that are less substantial, stating, "If materials are thoroughly particlized, they are transient, like rainbows."
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More Architecture and Design An Anatomy of Megachurches — Slate, 2005.1010Some Assembly Required — New Yorker, 2005.1010 Synagogue's Design Is Welcoming, Dramatic — Plain Dealer, 2005.1009 Sitegeist — New York Times, 2005.1009 Into the Modern Age — San Francisco Chronicle, 2005.1009 The De Young: Not Your Average Art-Filled Box — San Francisco Chronicle, 2005.1007 Radical Restraint — Building Design, 2005.1007 Calatrava Completes Valencia Opera House — World Architecture News, 2005.1007 Rafael Viñoly completes Nasher Museum — World Architecture News, 2005.1007 At a Public Policy School, Design by a Big Committee — New York Times, 2005.1003 Nevada Cancer Institute Merges Health Care and Hospitality — AIArchitect, 2005.1003 Ahead of the Curve — Guardian Unlimited, 2005.1003 For Ground Zero Building, It's Back to Drawing Board — New York Times, 2005.1003 District Learning — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2005.1002 Curtain Rises on Two New Arts Centers — Boston Globe, 2005.1002 Nasher Makes Dream Come True at Duke — Dallas News, 2005.1002 Dutch Answer to Flooding: Build Houses That Swim — New York Times, 2005.0930 Tectonic Soup — Building Design, 2005.0930 Too Tall an Order for T.O.? — Toronto Star, 2005.0929 Spa Aaaah — AIArchitect, 2005.0926 Creative Solution an Art — Akron Beacon Journal, 2005.0925 Zaha's Stirling Entry — World Architecture News, 2005.0923 How Architects Turned Own Mews into Airy New Building — Irish Times, 2005.0922
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