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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 Mississippi Chapter Announces Design Awards — Mississippi AIA Chapter press release at ArchiWire, 2006.0710T-Mobile HQ Wins Architecture Prize — Cellular News, 2006.0710 QLD Architecture Awards - Gold Coast — Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2006.0710 What, No Books? — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0710 Parramatta Transport Interchange: Major Station Upgrade — World Architecture News, 2006.0707 Santa Monica Park First to Receive LEED Silver Rating — AIArchitect, 2006.0707 AIA Pennsylvania 2006 Design Award Winners — AIArchitect, 2006.0707 The Adirondacks under Glass — New York Times, 2006.0707 Transforming Cargo Containers into a Weekend Studio — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.0704 Elevator Death Bares Systemic Ills — Japan Times, 2006.0704 On the Mississippi, a Vision Steeped in an Industrial Past — New York Times, 2006.0704 Musée des Bogus Arts — Opinion at Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0703 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 Australian Wildlife Health Centre — Architecture Australia, 2006.07 Edition Neeson Murcutt Architects’ Viewing Apparatus at Homebush Bay — Architecture Australia, 2006.07 Edition Oldham Library + Gallery = Lifelong Learning — World Architecture News, 2006.0630 Freedom Tower, WTC: Final Designs Revealed — 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
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