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POLSHEK'S KAHN YALE GALLERY RESTORATION The Yale University Art Gallery, designed by Louis Kahn, reopened a few months ago after a three-year restoration and rejuvenation by Polshek Partnership Architects, working with a team of experts in restoration, exhibit design, and other specialties. The result brings the building back very close to the way Kahn envisioned it when it was completed in 1953.
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DETERMINING SHENZHEN It is a historical fact that with economic transition comes environmental change. Perhaps there is no greater influence on the physical environment than the rapid industrial and economic development of towns and cities. This occurred in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, during the Industrial Revolution. Transportation innovations like the train and later the car encouraged a physical and psychological detachment between the home and workplace, leading to an expansion of residential and commercial districts into rural pastures.
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SOCAL CONCRETE The Rice Residence, on a hillside above Los Angeles, expresses an idyllic Southern California lifestyle with daylight saturating every room, a floor plan that encourages casual indoor-outdoor living, and spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean in the distance.
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More Building and Construction Homebuilder Index Lowest Since '91 — CNN, 2007.0618Recycled Material Goes from Hurricane Piles to Construction Sites — WLOX, 2007.0618 Concrete Gallery of Homes — Kansas City Star, 2007.0618 Programming Affordable Futures — Midlands Housing, 2007.0618 Changes to Ease Battle on Housing — The Age (Australia), 2007.0618 Manhattan House Divided — New York Times, 2007.0617 Will the Dome Clouds Lift at Last? — Telegraph, 2007.0617 Building Costs Are Lots Lots Lots Lots Lots Lots — Daily Herald, 2007.0617 Not in My Front Yard — New York Times, 2007.0617 McMansion Mania — Forbes, 2007.0615 Zero-Rating of Materials to Lower Cost of Building — Business Daily Africa, 2007.0615 New-Home Building Jumps in Canada — Business Edge, 2007.0615 30 Million Passengers, 23,000 Square Metres of Shops ... And Just 700 Seats — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0615 Renovators Face a Maze of Rules — Washington Post, 2007.0615 Sleeping Beauty — BD, 2007.0615 High Regards for Broadway Court — AIArchitect, 2007.0615 Glossy Magazine Home on a Newsprint Budget — The Globe and Mail, 2007.0615 Farewell to the Traditional Balcony? — Washington Post, 2007.0615 Square Launched for Greenwich Peninsula — BD, 2007.0614 A Room with an $18-Million View — Globe and Mail, 2007.0613 Foster Designs Ecological Tower for Siberia — BD, 2007.0613 Bill Targets Farmworker Housing — News & Observer, 2007.0612 Canadian Home Building Fell Sharply in April — Axcess News, 2007.0612 Two Buildings, Two Cities, One Problem — The Globe and Mail, 2007.0612 Home Costs Stay Beyond Reach of Many — Boston Globe, 2007.0611 Smart Tagging Construction — ConstructionTech, 2007.0611 Playing House — Colorado Daily News, 2007.0611 Lower Housing Prices Bring Little Relief — Providence Journal, 2007.0611 Code Council Helping California Transition to New Building Codes — International Code Council press release, 2007.0611
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