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Postcard from London | |
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London Millennium Bridge | |
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A Block in Temple Bar | |
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Talking with Taniguchi | |
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Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla and León | |
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Whether crossing an atrium, street, canal, canyon, or sound, whether ancient, historic, modern, or high-tech, made of stone, concrete, steel, or glass, the bridge is a special kind of connecting structure. Topologically, whereas most buildings exist largely to enclose space, bridges tend to puncture it to varying degrees.
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Dear ArchitectureWeek, In July 2003, the Hungerford footbridges, which have brought about a major improvement to the London pedestrian's journey across the River Thames, were renamed the Golden Jubilee Bridges to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
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London’s Millennium Bridge reopened six years ago on February 22, 2002, with its designer, Lord Foster, in attendance, but without its original, notorious wobble. Described by Foster as a "blade of light," the Millennium Bridge was closed just two days after it first opened in June, 2000, because it shimmied and shook uncomfortably.
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O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects spent ten years working on one block in Temple Bar, the cultural quarter of Dublin, Ireland. We started on conversion of the former Quaker Meeting House into the Irish Film Centre in 1986. Meeting House Square, with the National Photographic Archive and the Gallery of Photography, was opened to the public in 1996.
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Some Westerners, when faced with Oriental creativity, have a tendency to get a little carried away. Instead of a balanced, rational approach, a tendency emerges to ascribe the aesthetic effect of what they see to some mysterious, spiritual force that is absent from their own culture, whether it be called Zen, Tao, wabi-sabi, or yin and yang.
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CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM OF CASTILLA AND LEÓN The Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla and León (MUSAC) by Spanish architects Mansilla + Tuñón, located in León, Spain, reflects van der Rohe's philosophy in its minimalist architectural language — and the museum won the 2007 Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. At the same time, its design works to redefine both the role of a museum with respect to its cultural context and the way people experience museums.
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More Architecture and Design A Thoroughly Northwest House Sets Itself on the Sights — Seattle Times, 2008.0210Mayor Opens Adjaye's Stephen Lawrence Centre — BD, 2008.0208 Hong Kong Revels in High-End Design — International Herald Tribune, 2008.0207 Broad Contemporary Art Museum — Los Angeles Times, 2008.0207 Renzo Piano, Favored Museum Designer, Wears Out His Welcome — Bloomberg, 2008.0206 Contenders Vie for Design's Answer to the Turner Prize — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0206 Found -- And Lost -- In Translation — Wall Street Journal, 2008.0206 Italy Wineries: Raising a Glass to New Architecture — International Herald Tribune, 2008.0205 An Outstanding Design That Isn't — The Globe and Mail, 2008.0205 Beauty Isn't Skin-Deep, It's in Buildings' Bones — Washington Post, 2008.0201 AIA Indiana Presents 2007 Design Awards — AIArchitect, 2008.0201 A Tall Order — Architect's Newspaper, 2008.0129 Pointing in the Right Direction — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2008.0128 Design Translations — The News & Observer, 2008.0126 Eight Projects Honored in the Green Mountain State — AIArchitect, 2008.0125 D.C. Architect Suman Sorg's Neighborhood Modernism — AIArchitect, 2008.0125 Making Dark Rooms Glow — New York Times, 2008.0124 Polishing the Brand in a Cathedral for Cars — New York Times, 2008.0123 Britain's Biggest Building Is Ready to Soar as Terminal 5 — The Herald, 2008.0122 Hale County Animal Shelter by (New) Rural Studio — Inhabitat (blog), 2008.0118 A Tall Tinsel Topping That Clinks in the Breeze — New York Times, 2008.0117 Magical Conservatories — Denver Post, 2008.0116 L.A. Squared — Los Angeles Times Magazine, 2008.0116 Modernist Hillel House Beckons UT Students — AIArchitect, 2008.0111 Two New UA Buildings at University of Arizona — UA News, 2008.0109 Foster Changes to Proposed Ealing Skyscraper Fail to Win over Critics — BD, 2008.0107 Department Stores Are Going Up in the World — Telegraph, 2008.0106 MacPhail Center Opens Its Shiny (and Rusty) New Home Near the Mississippi. — Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2008.0104 Foreign Office Architects' Project Given the Go-Ahead — BD, 2008.0104 New Art Museum Awarded 2007 American Architecture Award — Art Daily, 2008.0103
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