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POSTCARD FROM SHANGHAI Dear ArchitectureWeek, In the interior design of its own three-story office space in downtown Shanghai, China, completed in April 2006, MoHen Design International emphasizes decorative elements. The reception desk is a glass case lit from the inside, an island of light in a dark space. In the main office and work space, cubicles line two opposite walls. Two long faux-finished tables for collaborative work stretch lengthwise down the middle of the room, flanked by furry, bench-style seats. Task lighting drops from the ceiling.
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THE SUNDANESE HOUSE Three hundred steps lead down to the Sundanese village of Kampung Naga. Here, in this valley of West Java, Indonesia, the people consciously maintain the knowledge of their ancestors and their traditional lifestyles in a close relationship with nature. This philosophy extends to their construction methods using local materials of timber, stone, bamboo, and palm leaves.
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GRAVES IN ROME In 1960, Michael Graves was awarded the American Academy in Rome's prestigious Prix de Rome. Having just completed his graduate studies in architecture, he embarked on a two-year "Grand Tour" that led to a lifelong fascination with the landscape, the culture, and the history of Italy. During this time, Graves was exposed to ideas about architecture that went well beyond his modernist upbringing.
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More Building Culture Terraced Prices No Longer Slumming It — U.K. Times, 3007.0309Discovering a Restaurant of Seven Wonders — Vietnam Net, 2007.0328 Brooklyn Architecture to the Rescue — New York Sun, 2007.0327 Community or Social Housing — Malta Independent, 2007.0326 Baby Boomers Squeeze Young Home Buyers from Market — New Zealand Herald, 2007.0326 Globe-Trotting Designers Thrive on Cultural Challenges — Daily Commcercial News and Construction Record, 2007.0326 Keeping the Dream Alive — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2007.0325 Northeast Los Angeles: Ready for a Close-Up — New York Times, 2007.0325 Prices Aren't Supersonic; the Planes Aren't Either — New York Times, 2007.0325 'Mansion' Hard to Define, but House Sizes Are Growing — Tennessean, 2007.0325 High-Born Homes That Came and Went — New York Times, 2007.0325 Age Cannot Wither Him — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0325 Getting in on Affordable Housing Requires Work — San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0325 The Manhattanization of Boston — Boston Globe, 2007.0325 A Marriage of Traditions — The Star (Malaysia), 2007.0324 Public, Subsidized Housing Populations Older, Disabled — MSN, 2007.0324 Vank Cathedral, a Specimen of Armenian Architecture — Press TV, 2007.0324 Two Young Architects with Attitude, Vision and a Prize — New York Times, 2007.0324 Where Modernism Hit an Art Deco Wall — Los Angeles Times, 2007.0324 Affordable-Homes Gap Growing, Report Shows — Central Penn Business Journal, 2007.0323 Serota Promises Regular Architecture Shows at Tate — BD, 2007.0323 Why the Greeks Could Hear Plays from the Back Row — Nature, 2007.0323 A Road Trip Back to the Future — New York Times, 2007.0323 Are Architecture Exhibitions a Waste of Space? — Building Design, 2007.0323 Saving a Classic — Newsday, 2007.0322 A Mies Masterwork, Deteriorating and in Dispute — New York Times, 2007.0322 AIA Illinois Names 150 Great Places — PR Newswire, 2007.0321 Baskervill and Scott & Goble: IDP Outstanding Firm Award — American Institute of Architects press release, 2007.0320 Will Failing Vision Impair Opera House Improvements? — The Australian, 2007.0320 Old Town Revamp Makes the Grade — Scotsman Online, 2007.0319 Storm over an Ill-Starred Chapel — New York Times, 2007.0318 Hail the New Golden Age of the Train — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0318 Great Cathedrals Are 'Catechism in Stone,' Says Architect — Indian Catholic, 2007.0317 Home Sweet Heritage Home — Prince Edward Island Guardian, 2007.0317 Exhibit Explores Zagreb and Its Transformations — Boston Globe, 2007.0316 Guy Hyde Chick, the Man Behind the House — Berkeley Daily Planet, 2007.0316 The Malling of Moscow with a View of the Kremlin — New York Times, 2007.0315 A Museum Takes Steps to Collect Houses — New York Times, 2007.0315 The ICA&CA Announces Winners of the 2007 Arthur Ross Awards — Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, 2007.0308 If a Building Pirates Your Copyrighted Design, You Can Sue — ArchitectOnLine, 2007.0301 Seeing Buildings through the Eyes of Others — ArchitectOnLine, 2007.0301 The Number of Black Women Architects Has Quadrupled, But... — ArchitectOnLine, 2007.0301
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