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CONSTRUCTING OSAKA ART Until recently, the site of Osaka Japan's National Museum of Contemporary Art, one of three national contemporary art museums in Japan, was at the far edge of the city, on the former site of the 1970 World's Fair. The museum had planned to move from this distant suburb to a central urban location in the middle of Nakanoshima Island, part of a planned cultural arts district that has great potential to activate and energize an integral part of the city.
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SOFT WALLS FOR CURVY SPACES Vancouver, BC-based architects Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen (Forsythe + MacAllen Design) have been studying ways to create simple and beautiful objects designed from a single material. Their latest effort is "softwall", a flexible partition prefabricated from 250-400 thin layers of soft, translucent paper or polyethylene nonwoven textile.
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CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM Designers of the new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario could have merely created a protective envelope for Canada's wartime artifacts. Instead they designed a monumental structure to inspire a nation by integrating artistic symbolism with pragmatic innovation.
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More Building and Construction China Towers Celebrate Steel, with Aid of Concrete — ENR, 2006.0222Remodeling Slows Moderately in Fourth Quarter — National Association of Home Builders, 2006.0221 German Architect Tapped for Allston Science Complex — Harvard Crimson, 2006.0221 Demand for Space Outpacing Construction — Calgary Herald, 2006.0220 Architects Meet in Rotterdam on New Orleans — Boston Globe, 2006.0217 Building to Code Yields Economic Benefits — International Code Council press release, 2006.0216 It Takes a Freight Village — The Slatin Report, 2006.0216 Libeskind Building Skyscrapers around the World — Architectural Record, 2006.0216 HVAC Simplified in New Book from ASHRAE — ASHRAE press release, 2006.0215 Builder Confidence Unchanged In February — National Association of Home Builders, 2006.0215 Louisville Gets ‘Skyscraper Serious’ — City Paper, 2006.0215 Reno Construction Worker Dies in Trench Collapse — Las Vegas Sun, 2006.0214 Senate Holds Hearings on Lumber Dispute — BuildingOnline, 2006.0214 Wembley Truly Special — BBC News, 2006.0213 Seattle's Waterfront Reshaped by New Sculpture Park — ENN, 2006.0213 New Urbanism — News-Leader, 2006.0213 The Birth of a Building — Courier-Journal, 2006.0212 A Modern Look for Prefab Housing — New York Times, 2006.0212 6 Kimura Buildings Found Defective — Asahi, 2006.0210 Axe Raised over Bespoke Schools — Building Design, 2006.0210 Halt This Harmful Demolition Derby — Building Design, 2006.0210 Code Official Institute Teaches Management Skills — International Code Council press release, 2006.0209 Construction Largest Source of Fraud Complaints — Jacksonville Business Journal, 2006.0209 Next, He'll Build a Canyon — Los Angeles Times, 2006.0209 Restoring River Walk Beauties — Construction, 2006.0209 Skyscraper to Transform Louisville Skyline — Courier-Journal, 2006.0209 Gleaming the Tube — BDC, 2006.0208 Baby-Boomer Wave Will Alter Adult-Living Housing Market — ENR, 2006.0206
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