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The soaring Cathedral of Christ the Light designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has transformed an old retail and commercial district in Oakland, California, into a vital sacred and civic gathering place. The all-new 224,000-square-foot (20,800-square-meter) complex for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland brims with amenities, including a public plaza and garden, health clinic, conference center, gift shop, and cafe, as well as clergy living quarters.
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One of the principal tactics that underlies the work of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis is the inverting of the value of constraints, by recasting the limitations of a project as the trigger for design invention. By maneuvering imaginatively within operational boundaries, the latent potentials of the project can be teased out of the very restrictions that would seem to weigh it down.
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The new Oslo Opera House is a monumental architectural statement for Norway, providing a glamorous new home for the National Opera and Ballet and a striking public plaza overlooking the Oslofjord. Instantly shedding opera's snooty, high-art image, the new building by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta slopes down from the roof to the water's edge. The gleaming-white marble threshold between land and water welcomes hundreds of people on a sunny day.
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The first step in designing a fabric structure is to create a form with sufficient pre-stress, or tension, to prevent it from fluttering like a flag or sail. Lightweight structures with minimal surfaces optimally should have double curvature — a surface that possesses a high-point (positive) curvature along one principal axis and a low-point (negative) curvature along the other principal axis.
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More Architecture and Design ASU's New Journalism School — AIArchitect, 2008.1121Curbed Roundtable: Critical Mass for 2 Columbus Circle — Curbed, 2008.1117 Altitude Slickness — New York Times, 2008.1116 A Cabin Is Not a Shack — New York Times, 2008.1114 Cathedral of Light — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.1105 Despite Grand Plans, Prefabrication Still Hasn't Realized Economies of Scale — Washington Post, 2008.1031 Hadid's Work Helps New York Celebrate Chanel's — Daily Star, 2008.1029 Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Opens Its Doors — Cool Hunting, 2008.1028 AIA North Carolina Awards Showcase Design Artistry — AIArchitect, 2008.1024 AIA North Carolina Awards Showcase Design Artistry — AIArchitect, 2008.1024 Dallas' New Modernism — Dallas Morning News, 2008.1024 Sky-High Design — The Globe and Mail, 2008.1022 Small Packages — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.1022 Honors for Restored Wright House — New York Times, 2008.1019 Prefab, High-Concept and Green — New York Times, 2008.1015 A Rising Star — Prague Post, 2008.1015 Nature and Nurture — Contract Magazine, 2008.1013 Brad Cloepfil Feels the Heat in NYC — Seattle Times, 2008.1012 In Oyster Bay, New Housing Limits — Long Island Building News, 2008.1010 Oslo Opera — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.1008 Rooftop Living — The Times (UK), 2008.1005 At the U. Of New Mexico, a Predock Building Worth the Wait — Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008.1002 Housing Stack — New York Times, 2008.1002 Boundary Issues — New York Times, 2008.0928 West Point Gives Cadets a New Hall of Learning — New York Times, 2008.0925 In the Penthouse, a True Garden Apartment — New York Times, 2008.0925 N.Y. Facade Spells Trouble — Los Angeles Times, 2008.0925 New Face, Renewed Mission — New York Times, 2008.0925 Stable Structure — World Architecture News, 2008.0924 Drew Wilgus Wins Design Your Dwelling Competition — Davidson News, 2008.0924
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