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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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More Building and Construction Habitat Project Kicks Off — Denver Business Journal, 2006.0301Art Museum Expansion OK'd — Cincinnati Post, 2006.0301 Grassy Narrows Warns Weyerhaeuser: "Withdraw or Face Campaign" — Friends of Grassy Narrows press release, 2006.0228 Recovering States? The Gulf Coast Six Months after the Storm — Oxfam America press release, 2006.0228 Higher Material Costs Hang over Construction Industry — USA Today, 2006.0228 Pergamon Museum to Be Renovated — Deutsche-Welle, 2006.0228 2 Main Leads in Fatal Roof Collapse — Moscow Times, 2006.0228 The Revolution in Building Materials — Business Week, 2006.0228 The Fifth Annual Planetizen Top 10 Books List — Planetizen, 2006.0227 New-Home Sales Down 5 Percent In January — National Association of Home Builders, 2006.0227 Grand Designs Guru Blasts 'Noddy Homes' — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0226 It's Gehry Putting on the Dogs — Los Angeles Times, 2006.0226 Boston's Tall Buildings Reflect an Inspired Idea — Boston Globe, 2006.0226 A People's Parliament Built for Our Past - and Future — Scotsman Online, 2006.0225 Shoddy Building Blamed for Second Collapse — Independent, 2006.0225 Putting the "Fab" in Prefab — CNN Money, 2006.0224 Soapbox: Something's Got to Give over Height — Building Design, 2006.0224 New York Wonders: An Island Fit for What? — New York Times, 2006.0223 A Corrugated House in a Sunburned Land — New York Times, 2006.0223 Deck Builders Optimistic about 2006 — DeckExpo press release, 2006.0223 Civil Engineers Announce Outstanding Achievement Award Nominees — ASCE press release, 2006.0222 China Towers Celebrate Steel, with Aid of Concrete — ENR, 2006.0222 Designer Gives Shapes to New Landmarks — The Nation, 2006.0221 Remodeling Slows Moderately in Fourth Quarter — National Association of Home Builders, 2006.0221 German Architect Tapped for Allston Science Complex — Harvard Crimson, 2006.0221 Harley Museum to Include Three Buildings, 'Urban' Look — Milwaukee Business Journal, 2006.0220 Louisiana Rebuilding Plan Unveiled — CNN, 2006.0220 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 The Birth of a Building — Courier-Journal, 2006.0212
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