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Y INSIDE In this suburb of the nation's capital, the Fort Washington, Maryland YMCA project is overshadowed by all the surrounding built history. Yet this rehabilitation of a former supermarket should not be underestimated. The firm of GTM Architects has successfully transformed the nondescript building into a "Y" that is at once visually poetic, pragmatically functional, and admirably committed to its community.
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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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More Architecture and Design Behind the Glass Curtain — BusinessWeek, 2006.0718Robo-Building — BusinessWeek, 2006.0718 Picture Now Complete at Heide — The Age, 2006.0716 Kanyon — Cool Hunting, 2006.0715 A School Building Designed to Teach — AIArchitect, 2006.0714 Mississippi Chapter Announces Design Awards — Mississippi AIA Chapter press release at ArchiWire, 2006.0710 T-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 National Art in a New Light — South Florida, 2006.0702 Popping the Cork on a New Headquarters — New York Times, 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
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