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On a December day of 1955, fresh over from Paris, I walked into the small Eero Saarinen office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with a beat-up box of eight-by-tens of my Beaux-Arts graduation work. "Can I see Mr. Saarinen? I'm looking for a job." He did see me, and having reviewed my prints, asked whether I could start that very afternoon — for $2.75 an hour pay. I did.
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The activity of buying and selling food has shaped our cities and towns for centuries, since an urban population by nature depends on others for agricultural production. At the heart of this activity stands the public market — the buildings and spaces in which vegetables, meat, and other commodities intended for human consumption are sold by diverse persons from numerous spaces or stalls, all under a common authority.
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More Building Culture A Smashing Historic Residence — Montreal Gazette, 2008.0821Little Pimple Is in a Prime Spot — BBC News, 2008.0821 Future of Brutalist-Designed Church Not Concrete — NPR, 2008.0820 Canadian Housing Market Dodging Worst of U.S. Meltdown — Calgary Herald, 2008.0819 Andreas Papadakis — Telegraph, 2008.0818 Florida Firm Is Furnishing New Life for Historic Building — Charlotte Business Journal, 2008.0818 Taming the Rate Demon — Economic Times, 2008.0816 AIA Architect Renker Testifies to House Small Business Committee Against Fee Retainage — AIArchitect, 2008.0815 Changing Skyline: Science Center Can't Seem to Get It Right — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2008.0815 Rome - Eternal City or Stuck in the Past? — Stuff, 2008.0814 Akron Art Museum Marks One Year Since Reopening — Akron West Side Leader, 2008.0814 Skyscraper Wars, Part Three — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0813 In Slow Times, Rezoning Appeals to Developers — New York Times, 2008.0813 An Architectural Gem in Germany Is Reborn — Architectural Record, 2008.0813 San Antonio Just Keeps on Sprawling — My San Antonio, 2008.0810 Design Exchange: Rethinking the Architecture of Canadian Cities — National Post, 2008.0809 Sexing Up the Suburbs — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0809 To Hell and Home Again — Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.0809 Oklahoma City Is Booming with Oil and a New Exuberance — New York Times, 2008.0808 U.S. Consumer Debt Spikes in June — Forbes, 2008.0807 Not Just Hearst's Architect — San Luis Obispo News, 2008.0807 Modernism in the Treasure Valley — Idao Statesman, 2008.0807 Robert S. Sturgis, 86; Architect Cared about City's Beauty and Livability — Boston Globe, 2008.0807 Rescuing a Historic Gem — Buffalo News, 2008.0806 The Architect-Designer Focuses on Child's Play — Wall Street Journal, 2008.0805 Nouveau-Riche Exhibitionism on Cape Cod — Providence Journal, 2008.0804 My Space — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0803 Mexican Museum May Finally Have Found a Home — San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0801 The Macdonalds Had a Barn, but No Farmhouse — Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2008.0801
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