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It's a spacious, imposing Los Angeles residence that has a central courtyard with lush vegetation and a cooling fountain. But don't look for palm trees or swimming pools or movie stars — this is no stereotypical Southern California abode.
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The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, reopened its doors in spring 2008 after an expansion designed by Ann Beha Architects. This was both a sympathetic and a very modern expansion, and the results provide quite an elegant increase in the museum's scope.
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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.
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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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More Building Culture 'Lost' Louis Sullivan Storefront Discovered on Wabash Avenue — Chicago Tribune, 2008.1014The Ambassador Hotel Lesson — Los Angeles Times, 2008.1013 The Gathering Storm: Is Another Great Depression Approaching? — Cutting Edge News, 2008.1013 London Assembly Likely to Abandoned House-Building Plan — Mortgage Brokers 4 London, 2008.1013 Britain Starts Fight for Billions Trapped in Iceland — The Times (London), 2008.1012 See Barcelona through the Eyes of Gaudi — Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2008.1012 With Stadiums Going, Going, Ashes May Be Gone — New York Times, 2008.1011 Sustainable Design Becomes a Mandatory Continuing Education Requirement for AIA Membership in 2009 — AIArchitect, 2008.1010 Historic Parkland Hospital Nears Debut as Office Complex — Dallas Morning News, 2008.1010 Architects in the City — Moscow Times, 2008.1010 Why Isn't There a Nobel Prize for the Arts? — Los Angeles Times, 2008.1009 Stung! By the Building Bug — The Globe and Mail, 2008.1009 Residential Reclamations — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.1008 Making It Home — New York Times, 2008.1008 Charitable Bodies Hit by Credit Crisis — Nature, 2008.1008 Analyzing the 'Sponge' — MIT News, 2008.1007 Lin Arroyo: Cuban Architect and Urban Planner — The Times (UK), 2008.1007 Portrait of the Artist: David Adjaye, Architect — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.1007 'S Frank Up To? — Los Angeles Times, 2008.1005 The Suburbs as a Museum Piece — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2008.1005 Recalling La Dolce Vita in Eritrea — New York Times, 2008.1005 Housing Industry Gives Helping Hand — Calgary Herald, 2008.1004 A Building with a Hands-on Philosophy! — Deccan Herald, 2008.1003 Social Critic's 1902 Estate Deep in Debt, Needs Repairs — Winston-Salem Journal, 2008.1002 A Technicolor Hadid Arrives at the National Portrait Gallery — This is London, 2008.1001 East Dallas Landmark Finds New Owners and Regains Lost Grandeur — Dallas Morning News, 2008.0929 A Hawaiian Modernist, by Way of Russia — New York Times, 2008.0928 New York City, Tear Down These Walls — New York Times, 2008.0928 Carving Out a Family Home and a Studio — New York Times, 2008.0928 A Halfhearted Fare-Thee-Well to a Middling Design — Washington Post, 2008.0926
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