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HELPING BUILDINGS Volunteers of all types dedicate themselves to improving the human condition. Some architects, for instance, donate their time pro bono to groups that could otherwise not afford the design and advocacy services needed to improve their built environments.
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MIES ON LAKE SHORE DRIVE When German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the famous twin-tower Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago, these modern icons, also known as the "Glass Houses," took their place in line along a lakefront history exhibit of the city's residential architecture. — Editor
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More Building Culture New Museum Highlights Lives of Literary Giants — International Herald Tribune, 2006.0606Awards Cite Bucktown Project, Loft Apartments — Quad-City Times, 2006.0606 Rizal Avenue Landmark Gone — ABS CBN Interactive, 2006.0606 Line of Site: An Architectural Adventure — Canadian Architect, 2006.0606 Making Hotel Wright Again — Des Moines Register, 2006.0606 Designs for an Unknown Future — Financial Times, 2006.0606 Artists Share Their Vision of Architecture — Sligo Weekender, 2006.0606 UT to Revive Corbusier’s Legacy — Chandigarh Newsline, 2006.0606 Renewal Plan is 'Anthropology in Action' — Globe and Mail, 2006.0606 Choosing the Right Architect — Surgicenter, 2006.0606 Architect Lew Davis Dies — Architectural Record, 2006.0606 Building Moscow’s Future — Russia Profile, 2006.0606 National Timber Design Awards 2006 — Infolink, 2006.0605 Architect Pelli Joins Effort To Save Comsat Building — Washington Post, 2006.0605 Stars in Their Eyes, and on Their Panels — Los Angeles Downtown News, 2006.0605 In Bed with Pugin — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0605 QLD Architecture Awards — 612 ABC, 2006.0605 How a Park Changed a Chicago Neighborhood — New York Times, 2006.0604 Sears Catalog House Shopping — Post Star, 2006.0604 A Young Architect Uses Nature as Inspiration — NVS, 2006.0604 Meet Your New Waterfront — Toronto Star, 2006.0603 A Modernist Classic — Toronto Star, 2006.0603 Building Sights — Scotsman Online, 2006.0603 The Story of China's Gateway — BD Online, 2006.0602 Zaha Hadid: A Diva for the Digital Age — New York Times, 2006.0602 Life's Looking Up (and Down) on the 63rd Floor — The Australian, 2006.0601 The "It" List — Travel + Leisure magazine, 2006.06 Keeping Your A/E Firm Clients Happy — ZweigWhite press release, 2006.0531 Blueprint for All to Build On — Scotsman Online, 2006.0531 A Talented Architect/Painter and a Flight into the Unreal — International Herald Tribune, 2006.0531 More Than Just Bricks and Mortar — IC Liverpool, 2006.0531 Design Excellence a Necessity — Opinion at Plain Dealer, 2006.0531 National Artist Juan Nakpil’s Work Being Demolished — INQ7, 2006.0531 Architecture, Consumer Self Restraint and Zoning — New West, 2006.0531 Rhode Island School of Design Art Center to Undergo Expansion — Boston Globe, 2006.0531 UH's Future Architects Ready to Get Hands Dirty — Houston Chronicle, 2006.0531 Chess Olympic Tango in Argentina 2010? — Chess Base, 2006.0530 Miami Is All About Its Celebrity Architects — New York Times, 2006.0530 Helping to Preserve and Develop — Buffalo News, 2006.0530 An Eight-Century-Old Beauty Reborn — Travel Video, 2006.0530 Engineer Your Future -- Be an Architect — Northwest Indiana Times, 2006.0530 A Grand Entrance to New York — Opinion at New York Times, 2006.0529 Sky's the Limit — Time, 2006.0529 Class Project Tackles Real-World Development Quandary — New York Times, 2006.0528 Modest Designs Make Lovely Homes — Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2006.0528 Form, Function & Feeling — Arizona Republic, 2006.0528 From the Ashes, Something Brighter — News Observer, 2006.0527 Rescue Mission — Mumbai Newsline, 2006.0527 Seven Wonders of the World — Globe and Mail, 2006.0526 The Pavilion, Lord's Cricket Ground, London, Completed — World Architecture News, 2006.0526 How Jane Jacobs Changed My Life — MaisonNueve, 2006.0526 Sweden's Reluctant Modernist — BD Online, 2006.0526 Vancouver Viewed and Reviewed at Symposium — Canadian Architect, 2006.0526 The Amateur Architect — U.K. Times, 2006.0526 Levees Rebuilt Just in Time, but Doubts Remain — New York Times, 2006.0525 Catherine the Great's Palace Gets PVC Makeover — Independent Digital, 2006.0525 Cooper-Hewitt Museum Chooses a More Modest Growth Design — New York Times, 2006.0525 Local Projects Win Preservation Awards — The Plain Dealer, 2006.0525 An Architect With Plans for a New Gulf Coast — New York Times, 2006.0524 Could Seattle Do without Its Viaduct? — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.0523 Former NYC Architect Pleads Guilty to Bogus Documents — North Country Gazette, 2006.0523 CLA Building Has Rich History — Poly Post, 2006.0523 Time to Catch the Wave — Newsday, 2006.0522 Time to Wake 'Sleeping Beauty' Waterfront — Toronto Star, 2006.0522 Pittsburgh Cathedral Gets Centennial Facelift — Times Leader, 2006.0522 Blair Schools Hand Windfall to Foster — U.K. Times, 2006.0521 Expanding on Jefferson — New York Times, 2006.0521 Master Planner — New York Times, 2006.0521 Buildings Made of Light and Air — Telegraph, 2006.0520 The Architect and the Sculptor: A Friendship of Ideas — New York Times, 2006.0519 International Brigade — BD Online, 2006.0519 Deconstructing Construction — BD Online, 2006.0519 AIA Launches “Blueprint for America” — AIArchitect, 2006.0519 Open Architectural Tour Benefits Habitat for Humanity — Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2006.0518 A Last Chance for Ground Zero — New York Times, 2006.0518 University of Calgary Students Win SSEF Design Competition — Canadian Architect, 2006.0517 Add 'Elevation' to 'Location, Location' — New York Times, 2006.0514
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