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MAYNE COURTHOUSE The new Federal Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon by Thom Mayne and his Los Angeles firm Morphosis, is in some ways an outstanding building for this small city. Mayne certainly delivers a strong dose of visual excitement. The depth of art in this architecture is more open to question.
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ELEMENTARY AURORA New schools are springing up across the United States with design that doesn't go "by the book." These schools for grades Kindergarten through 12 are responding to meet new community demands or simply to replace aged facilities. Forty-five percent of the nation's elementary schools were built between 1950 and 1969, according to ZweigWhite, a market research firm. And enrollment in public K-12 schools will continue to rise through 2012, predicts the National Center for Education Statistics.
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MILAN TRADE FAIR "When you build one million square meters, you really don't know if what you envisioned will be good or bad," says Massimilliano Fuksas, the Rome-based architect for the New Milan Trade Fair. The 10.8-million-square-foot convention complex, which opened in April 2006, has a mile-long canopy that wows visitors with its whimsical flair, transforming a glass and steel structure into a fabric that billows and then touches down like tornados to the floor.
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More Architecture and Design Steven Holl's Dark Year Gets Brighter — New York Times, 2006.1231Steven Holl's Latest Design Is Business as Unusual — Washington Post, 2006.1231 AIA Minnesota Announces 2006 Honor, Divine Detail Awards — AIArchitect, 2006.1222 California Residences Awarded 2006 AIA East Bay Design Awards — AIArchitect, 2006.1222 A Modernist Beacon in the Post-Katrina Night — New York Times, 2006.1221 East Meets South Beach — The Slatin Report, 2006.1220 2006 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence Winners — Archiseek, 2006.1218 Virginia Society AIA Announces 2006 Awards — AIArchitect, 2006.1215 Creating a New Urban Campus Heart — World Architecture News, 2006.1206 A Mixed Verdict on Mayne Courthouse — Los Angeles Times, 2006.1205 Edifice, Complex — Wired, 2006.1203 Massive Ice Shelf 'May Collapse without Warning' — CommonDreams.org, 2006.1201 Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America — Architect Magazine, 2006.1130
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