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MUSIC WITH A VIEW Sometimes an architect's most creative act is to persuade a client to change the program, to reconsider what they think they want. The result can be a fresh approach to the problem, an invitation to see it in a new light. That's what happened at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, a private boarding school that wanted to "tune up and amplify" its music program, which was housed in a rather modest space in the basement of a chapel.
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SAROFIM RESEARCH BUILDING The firms of BNIM Architects and Burt Hill have partnered to design a new facility at the Texas Medical Center. The six-story Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building is now home for the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM). The building's elegant design is, in several ways, a departure from that of conventional research facilities.
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MERCEDES-BENZ BUILDING With the bulging prow of its aluminum and glass skeleton looming beside the fast lanes of Highway B14 in Stuttgart, Germany, the new Mercedes-Benz Museum lives up to the German automaker's refined engineering image. On entering the structure designed by the Dutch firm UN Studio, visitors ascend eight stories to the top, then wind down twin ramps through a collection of 160 vehicles displayed over 178,000 square feet (16,500 square meters) of exhibition space.
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NOUVEL'S TORRE AGBAR The Torre Agbar, a new tall building from Ateliers Jean Nouvel, in collaboration with b720 Arquitectura, Garcia-Ventosa Arquitectura, and Leopoldo Rodes Arquitecto, thrusts into Barcelona's skyline from the Placa de las Glories, a gritty district that Barcelona's planners have designated "the next big thing," a new center of commercial activity.
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More Architecture and Design Rhapsody in Orange — Washington Post, 2006.0919Heavy Metal — Kansas City Star, 2006.0917 Commentary: Three Giants, Three Towers — World Architecture News, 2006.0915 ScrapHouse: Putting Junk in Perspective — San Francisco Chronicle, 2006.0913 Museum Made of Paper Opens — Korea Times, 2006.0912 Viñoly-Designed Medical Research Center to Open — Interior Design, 2006.0912 A Stasis Symbol — Los Angeles Times, 2006.0912 Inside and Out — Louisville Courier-Journal, 2006.0910 Games Lesson — Building Design, 2006.0908 Designs for Three New Office Towers for WTC Site Unveiled — World Architecture News, 2006.0908 Kisho Kurokawa to Build St. Petersburg's New Stadium — World Architecture News, 2006.0906 NY Architect Puts NOLA Residents at Ease — eOculus, 2006.0906 Flights of Fancy — Guardian Unlimited, 2006.0905 In Cities across the United States, It’s Raining Concert Halls — New York Times, 2006.0903 Blending with the Landscape — Malasian Star, 2006.0903 Architecture: One Steppe Beyond — U.K. Times, 2006.0903 Man about the House — The Telegraph, 2006.0902 Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany — Frieze, 2006.0902 Cesar Pelli: The Cathedral Builder — Panache, 2006.09 New Lab Features Space Probe — WorldNow/WTKR, 2006.0830 Competition Hots Up for the UK's Most Prestigious Award — World Architecture News, 2006.0828 Glass Pavilion's Beauty is Transparent to Visitors on Opening Day — Toledo Blade, 2006.0828 Building Boon — The Age, 2006.0825 Third Annual A|L Light & Architecture Design Awards — Architectural Lighting, 2006.08
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