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HEAVY THINGS SEEM TO FLOAT IN AIR Somewhere between the nostalgic musings of I. M. Pei and the flickering of an independent-minded slideshow, noted Marcel Breuer expert Barry Bergdoll expressed perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Breuer's architecture: "by the end of his career, even heavy things seem to float in air." Bergdoll illustrated his point with a series of striking images in which massive concrete structures balance as if on tiptoe.
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Public urban open space. In the course of one L.A. day, those four little words inspired comparisons to a dining room table, descriptions of a "third revolution," arguments for spatial justice, historical tales of the search for an R-1 residential paradise, and an examination of what being "green" means in a desert.
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More Building Culture Canada's Entry to Biennale of Architecture Unveiled — The Globe and Mail, 2008.0220Prince Charles Labels Building 'a Dustbin' — BD, 2008.0218 Kaplicky May Become Brno's Architecture Adviser — Prague Monitor, 2008.0218 Gehry-Designed House Moving from Lake Minnetonka — St. Thomas Bulletin News, 2008.0218 If There Was Bawa There Was Plesner — Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), 2008.0217 Small House with BIG Feel — Orlando Sentinel, 2008.0217 A Clear Modern Vision — Boston Globe, 2008.0216 Corps Releases Levee Height Needs — Times-Picayune, 2008.0215 Take an Ethical Stance, Libeskind Tells His Peers — VD, 2008.0215 AIA Elevates 116 to Fellow — AIArchitect, 2008.0215 Revisioning the Suburbs — Minnesota Public Radio, 2008.0214 Cite de l'Architecture — The Times (London), 2008.0213 The 'Dormitory to End All Dormitories' Turns 40 — Brown Daily Herald, 2008.0213 Building Women — San Diego City Beat, 2008.0212 Europe's Can't-Miss Cathedrals — Forbes, 2008.0212 Safety Director Hired to Oversee World Trade Center Site — Newsday, 2008.0212 A Towering Mistake for the London Skyline — , 2008.0212 Brazilian Modernism's Time Has Come — San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0209 Seven Outstanding Professionals Tapped for Hon. AIA — AIArchitect, 2008.0208 Herzog Picks 100 Architects for Inner Mongolia Housing Project — BD, 2008.0207 Herzog & de Meuron Face Opposition in Hong Kong — Architectural Record, 2008.0206 Tampa Art Museum Debris to Be Recycled as Art — Tampa Bay Business Journal, 2008.0204 Industrial Designer Viktor Schreckengost Dead at 101 — Metropolis, 2008.0204 Still a Warehouse Wonderland — New York Times, 2008.0203 High and Mighty — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0202 Built from Scratch on the River's Edge — The Globe and Mail, 2008.0201 New Town Centre for 21st Century in West Dublin — Irish Times, 2008.0131 Rem Koolhaas to Redesign Hermitage Museum's Art Displays — Bloomberg, 2008.0130 Army Corps of Engineers Determines Natomas Levees Substandard — Califronia Aggie, 2008.0130 Architects and Designers Propose the Creation of a New National Academy — Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008.0129
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