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SMOKE AND MIRROR SLEEPOVERS Two new hotels, one small and one very small, are explorations in the use of light and reflection to transform space — and to create a world unlike anything hotel guests might inhabit day-to-day.
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SONG OF FOUR SEASONS The newly opened Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects, Inc., combines the best features of traditional European grand opera houses within a thoroughly modern envelope. With a world-class opera company in each of Canada's three largest cities, it may come as a surprise that none claims a purpose-built modern opera house. Until now.
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GRANDE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU QUÉBEC A grand pedestrian promenade behind the front facade of the new Grande Bibliothèque of the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec (BAnQ) links directly with the Metro, creating a 24-hour public thoroughfare tied into the fabric of the local community. The new library, in Montréal's Latin Quarter, houses two major collections: a large national reference library and an extensive lending library. But the 355,000-square-foot (33,000-square-meter), five-story glazed structure serves more than books.
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More Architecture and Design Transforming Cargo Containers into a Weekend Studio — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.0704Elevator Death Bares Systemic Ills — Japan Times, 2006.0704 On the Mississippi, a Vision Steeped in an Industrial Past — New York Times, 2006.0704 The Gas Ceiling — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0703 National Art in a New Light — South Florida, 2006.0702 Popping the Cork on a New Headquarters — New York Times, 2006.0702 National Museum in New York, for Public and for Profit — New York Times, 2006.0702 Museum Growth, Rehab Fueling Building Boom — Colorado Springs Business Journal, 2006.0702 Oldham Library + Gallery = Lifelong Learning — World Architecture News, 2006.0630 Wisconsin Honors Architecture for Craft, Care, Context — AIArchitect, 2006.0630 Thoroughly Modern but Downright Neighborly — New York Times, 2006.0629 Japanese Architecture Lives in Cracks — eOculus, 2006.0627 For a New Paris Museum, Jean Nouvel Creates His Own Rules — New York Times, 2006.0627 The Kubla Khan of Hotels — New York Times, 2006.0625 Cheese Hole Leading to Regeneration — World Architecture News, 2006.0623 HSB Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden: Santiago Calatrava — World Architecture News, 2006.0623 Minneapolis Gets a Taste of French Style — Los Angeles Times, 2006.0621 Open Government — BBC News, 2006.0620 Santa Monica Museum of Art — ArcSpace, 2006.0619 Pacis Moderna — Metropolis, 2006.0619 A Thundering Cry in the Urban Landscape — Globe and Mail, 2006.0616
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