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HIGHEST HONORS FOR AMERICAN ARCHITECTS In January, the AIA announced the 2006 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards for excellence in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design. One of the architecture award recipients is the Frieder Burda Collection Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany, designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects and Peter W. Kruse - Freier Architekt (photo by Roland Halbe Fotografie). Next week we'll take look at this and the other 29 award winners.
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MADRID'S ADVENTUROUS AIRPORT In 1930, Le Corbusier wrote that "the beauty of an airport is in the splendor of wide open spaces," yet the experience of most modern travelers is seldom "splendid." Airports are more often than not dehumanizing and labyrinthine. Now, Barajas New Area Terminal (photo by Manuel Renau) in Madrid, a joint venture between Richard Rogers Partnership and Estudio Lamela, promises to change this and establish a new standard. Writer Rachel Grossman will show us around.
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Architecture Headlines This Week
Capitol Project Earns 'Oscar' of Architects' Award — State of Washington press release, 2006.02082nd Architect Under Suspicion — Asahi, 2006.0208
Architect's Family Battle Developers to Save Landmark — U.K. Times, 2006.0207
Razing Rudolph — Herald Tribune, 2006.0205
Nine Outstanding Professionals Tapped for Hon. AIA — AIArchitect, 2006.0203
$77 mil. for death from above — Chicago Sun-Times, 2006.0202
Severe Thunderstorm Hits New Orleans — AP at ABC News, 2006.0202
President Bush Forgets About Global Warming — ABC News, 2006.0201
France's Pompidou Centre Looks East for Expansion — Mail & Guardian, 2006.0201
Michael Acht Wins the Prix de Rome in for Emerging Practitioners — Canadian Architect, 2006.0131
Polish Hall Collapses Killing 20 — BBC News, 2006.0129
Young Architects Honored — AIArchitect, 2006.0127
White House Declines to Provide Storm Papers — New York Times, 2006.0125
8 Architects Embroiled in Aneha Scandal to Lose Their Licenses — Asahi, 2006.0125
Government Ignored Our Proposals, Say Architects — The Standard, 2006.0125
Kenya Building Collapse Kills at Least 11 — Forbes, 2006.0123
Renovated Getty Villa Clashes with Its Surroundings — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2006.0122
AIANH Excellence in Architecture Honor Awards — AIA New Hampshire press release, 2006.0121
AIA Nebraska Honors 12 — AIArchitect, 2006.0120
Razing The Palast — Metropolis, 2006.0119
Sydney Opera House Sets Sail, World Heritage Bid — Australian Government press release, 2006.0117
Roofers Fled Church Fire — Chicago Tribune, 2006.0117
Architecture Prize for Innovative Interior Design Concepts — Contractworld press release, 2006.0114
Clinton Library Receives Architecture Honor — Arkansas News Bureau, 2006.0114
Eight Projects Receive 2006 Regional and Urban Design Honor Awards — AIArchitect, 2006.0113
Eleven on the Inside Track — AIArchitect, 2006.0113
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