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Underlying the almost infinite variety of Victorian houses were a few basic structural forms, repeated millions of times over by builders following well established principles. The Masonry House
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Kengo Kuma strikes a chord when he talks about the inspirations for one of his most successful projects: the new Suntory Museum of Art, built in 2007 into the side of the new Tokyo Midtown development.
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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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More Building Culture Architect Designed Temple — Miami Herald, 2008.0911Ben Franklin, Urbanist — Metropolis, 2008.0911 House for Sweden — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0910 Houses for Victorians — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0910 NYC Suspends School Visits to UN over Fire Safety — Boston Globe, 2008.0910 NYC Suspends School Visits to U.N. Over Fire Safety — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2008.0910 Benchmarking 9/11: Terrorism, Hurricanes, and Climate-Change Challenges — Buildings, 2008.0910 Bright Days, Best House Tours — San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0909 Talking with Rem Koolhaas, the Architect Behind the Central Library — Seattle Times, 2008.0908 Star Power — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0907 Trading New York for Midwest Grit — New York Times, 2008.0904 Surroundings / Miscarriage of Architecture — Haaretz, 2008.0904 Cuba: Escaping Castro's Shadow — Telegraph, 2008.0904 Suntory Museum by Kengo Kuma — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0903 MLP, Heritage Malta Debate Impact of Visitor Centre — Times of Malta, 2008.0903 On the Ranch — Boise Weekly, 2008.0903 Thought House Prices Had Crashed Here? In Sicily They Cost One Euro — The Times (UK), 2008.0902 Thought House Prices Had Crashed Here? In Sicily They Cost One Euro — The Times (UK), 2008.0902 The Three C's: Condos, Classrooms and Crowding — Gotham Gazette, 2008.0902 Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands Showcases Three Wright Homes — Baltimore Magazine, 2008.0902 Supersized Home Design Has Wellfleet Couple in Doghouse — Boston Globe, 2008.0901 Brick by Brick, a Weekend Warrior Builds a Medieval Retirement Home — New York Times, 2008.0831 From Wood Shack to Urban Dream — Calgary Herald, 2008.0831 Pagans Plan Protest at Acropolis — Houston Chronicle, 2008.0830 A Battle about a Bridge Is a Battle over Suburbia — New York Times, 2008.0829 Post-Katrina, Higher Homes Raise Hopes — Chicago Sun-Times, 2008.0829 New Urbanism Trend Influences Downtown Development — Indianapolis Star, 2008.0828 Yale Restores Architecture Building, Loved and Hated '60s Icon — Bloomberg, 2008.0828 Biggest City Sprawls Attacked — The Australian, 2008.0828
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